Education
Currently University
Of East Anglia, Cultural Heritage and International Development Norwich, England
2004 Glasgow
School of Art, Environmental Art Department - Scotland
2002 Universidad
Catholica de Chile, exchange - Santiago de Chile
2000 ALBA.
Academie Libanais des Beaux Arts, Beirut ‐ Lebanon
Qualifications
2004 First
Class, BA Honors in Environmental Art
Distinction for
Historical and Critical Studies
Dissertation title: Resisting
Cynicism, Socio Political Art In chile
Prizes/ Awards
2011 Sanctuary Heritage Project 2011 for Defending
the Past
2011 UEA, School of World Art Studies and Museology, Scholarship
2004
British
Airways Arts Travel Award
Commissions and Residencies (AIR=Artist in
Residence)
2011 Shadows of Our Ancestors - Antonine Wall. Designing and leading creative workshops with Easter Carmuirs Primary School,
culminating in an onsite intervention to celebrate UNESCO World Heritage Day
Funded by Historic Scotland.
2011 Maelruibha, ‘Unveiling The Trail’ event,
Durness, Sutherland
Funded by Historic Scotland, Highland Events and Festival and the Lottery
Fund for Scottish Gaelic.
2009 - 2010 Defending
The Past: Cape Wrath, Sutherland. Designing and leading community outreach
programme and exhibition. Commissioned by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
and Defence Estates.
2007‐ 09 OURS -Timespan (AIR) and Youth Arts
Curator, Helmsdale, Scotland
Funded by pARTners programme and the
Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
2007 Insaka – Triangle International Artists
Residency, Siavonga - Zambia
2006 MacKay
Country (AIR), Sutherland - Scotland.
Funded by a Scottish Arts Council Lottery Grant,
pARTners and Highland 2007
2003 Valparaiso, Chile.
2002 Las Rojas, La Serenna, Chile
Carbeth Huts, Scotland
Curatorial Work
2009 Ice
House: a series of three double sited exhibitions by UK and
international artists
in response to Helmsdale’s 19 Century Ice House
Site specific
works
2010 Lake Victoria Boat Building Exchange in association with @rtpunch studio, Uganda.
2009 Icehouse.
Helmsdale, Scotland
2007 Still
Grinders ‐ Butete Bay, Zambia
2006 Memories
of life on Eilean Nan Ron ‐ Norfolk, England
Masterless
‐ Great Wall of China
2006 Island
Row ‐ Skerray, Eilean Nan Ron. Sutherland, Scotland
2004 Bearing
Witness ‐ Dumgoyne hill, Scotland
2003 RUTA
‐ Pititanguay, Chile/
Botanic Gardens, Glasgow
2002 Utopia
Poolside ‐ Carbeth, Scotland
Exhibitions
2010 Exquisite Trove – Group Show ‐ The New Art Gallery,
Walsall, England
2009 Arte
Povera Installation – screening – Tate
Modern, London
ELEPHANT
TEST ‐ solo show ‐ Timespan, Scotland
2008 VASuvius
‐ group show ‐ Timespan, Scotland
2007 Insaka
‐ group show ‐ Triangle 2007,
Zambia
2006 Passing
Place ‐ solo show ‐ Skerray, Scotland
Nafas Beirut ‐ group show ‐ Espace SD, Beirut,
Lebanon
2004 Bearing
Witness ‐ Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Scotland
Talks and
Seminars
2011 Speaker: The Basket and Beyond, AHRC funded conference at The University of East
Anglia
2009 Speaker: Art and Architecture, lecture commissioned by Edinburgh College of
Art
Speaker:
Invernessian Clanjamfrey, organisers: IOTA, Inverness
Publications
2009 ELEPHANT TEST and other trials
Limited edition
artist’s book: ISBN 978‐0‐9563428‐0‐5
Published by ELEPHANT
TEST (2009)
web links
2011 www.shadows2011.co.uk
2007-2009 www.timespanours-ruth.blogspot.com
