Ruth Singer

Category: Exhibitions

  • On My Mother’s Knee

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    I’m exhibiting at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, in a show called On My Mother’s Knee, opening later this month. I’ve created a new series especially for this show called Tool Shed. I’ll also be showing these two aprons. The exhibition catalogue is available online. When I was approached for this show in February this year, I…

  • Ornamentum Regeneration Exhibition Launch

    Ornamentum Regeneration Exhibition Launch

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    Exhibition Launch! Please come along to see the work of Ornamentum 10 contemporary craft makers in my studio building including my new installation in the nooks and crannies of the building.

  • The Beauty of Stains

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    I’ve recently been invited put together a major solo exhibition at The National Centre for Craft & Design in late 2015. The exhibition theme is loosely around physical and emotional engagement with cloth, exploring tactility, memory and personal stories, mostly around old domestic textiles. The working title of the show is The Beauty of Stains. I’m interested…

  • The Knitting & Stitching Show

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    The Knitting & Stitching Show  this week is the biggest show of the year for textile enthusiasts, artists and professionals. I’ll be there, on stand TG E14 which is the smaller hall, the Textile Gallery, right at the back, by the Roman Bar (I really wish there were Romans staffing it, but I suspect not).…

  • The Salon

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    I’m working on a completely new piece at the moment, for a pop-up gallery in Leicester called The Salon. EC Arts have been commissioned to fill the old salon with art by local and regional artists inspired by the local area, ideas of beauty and consumerism. With it being a salon, I chose to work…

  • New Work :: New York

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    I’m slightly astonished at the amount of new work I am churning out at the moment. I usually work on one project at a time, but suddenly, this autumn, there are lots of exhibition deadlines which is pressured but wonderful. My latest completed work is for a Design Factory showcase in New York at the…

  • The Making of Metamorphosis

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    More images of the whole piece here A few months ago I saw an opportunity advertised locally for artists to make work using the idea of metamorphosis and using an object in the collections of New Walk Museum as inspiration, as part of a conference in the School of Museum Studies at Leicester University.  I…

  • Shadow embroidery

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    I’ve been working on a new style of work using negative space and dense stitching.   The piece on the left, Grandad’s Tool Shed, is part of a new body of work for an exhibition at Llantarnam Grange later this year. The piece on the right uses Jan’s garlands as the design detail, part of the collaboration…

  • Embroidery commission for Jan Garside

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    I recently completed a small embroidery commission for my friend, the weaver Jan Garside, who I’ve collaborated with before. She asked me to make some pieces based on Elizabethan embroideries at Hardwick Hall for a commission she was working on. Jan & her finished pieces. Find out more about Jan & her work here. This…

  • Bright & Bold

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    The Circles Coat is to be exhibited again. This coat, created jointly by me and by visitors to the studio and events attendees, has been accepted into Pedestrian open exhibition called Bright & Bold.  Pedestrian is based at LCB Depot in Leicester (just down the road from the studio) and you can see the show  6 – 27th…