Category: My work
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Productivity and Creative Practice: Making Meaning podcast Episode 44
This blog and podcast are again from my Cultures of Care Group and in a change to the usual, the podcast includes the group discussion as well as my talk, which is my reflections on productivity as an artist and what that means to me now as a research-based artist more than a maker of…
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Nature and Care: Making Meaning podcast Episode 43
My Cultures of Care project wasn’t intentionally all about nature and landscape connection, yet that is what a lot of it has turned out to be. This podcast episode, and the essay below, is my exploration of how nature, outdoors and landscape in its widest sense have influenced my work. I talk about projects on…
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Creative Nature
Exploring land and nature-based projects for Cultures of Care I missed July’s Cultures of Care Group. I had to cancel because I had covid and had no energy for sharing my reflections on my care projects at the time. I’m better now, luckily, and looking forward to connecting again with a wonderful, supportive and engaged…
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Hidden Histories online talk for Embroiderers Guild
On Thursday 9th November I’m giving a talk about my work for the UK Embroiderers Guild. Ruth Singer’s work is all about illuminating stories and histories that we might not otherwise notice, from Victorian women criminals to personal and emotional stories of loss, via museum collections and nature connection. Ruth loves sharing these stories through…
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Leicester Textiles Festival
I’m pleased to be part of this new event in the city this month with two pieces in the Textiles Open 16-24th September. The exhibition is mainly at StudionAme in Leicester although my work may be in another venue. Full details and opening times doesn’t seem to be available yet but check the website and…
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Cultures of Care talk
Cultures of Care is my new major project. Over the next couple of years I will be looking at under-explored stories of care of people, places, objects. I’m interested in how artist activities and creative practice contributes to a culture of care. Cultures of Care is an umbrella or basket for several different, related activities …
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Lines and Places
Landscape history and artist practice After a hedge-hiatus early this year for my Blossom & Thorn project, I’m back to my previous landscape project. I’m slowly walking all of the paths in a 10 square mile-ish area near my home and looking for interesting things like old boundaries, ancient woodlands, good hedges, ridge and furrow…
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Cultures of Care online talk & workshop
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I’ve had such a lot of interest over the last couple of months about my new Cultures of Care project – it’s been really heartwarming to hear from people about how this subject resonates. There’s a lot going on with the project already including a community project artist residency, supported spaces in my Maker Membership…
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Gathering : Material Evidence
My Material Evidence exhibition in my garden studio is suddenly next week! I’ve just had a delivery of wonderful work by Kathryn Parsons which will go alongside some of my recent work. The exhibition starts on 2nd August and continues until 20th August on a handful of dates only. My part of the exhibition includes…
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Following Paths and Hedges
Paths and boundaries are where I started with the creative journey of making Blossom & Thorn, my project about the stories of hedges in the National Forest.
Ruth Singer 