Ruth Singer

Category: My work

  • Prints from Textile

    Prints from Textile

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    I’m pleased to say I’ve now got some of my print pieces available on the lovely Made by Hand Online shop, the home for amazing craft. The prints are part of a continuing research project to find ways to preserve and record textile processes. I use print as a way of taking a record of…

  • Foodbank stories in textile

    Foodbank stories in textile

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    Textiles and social justice work combine in a new body of work using data from a volunteer-run emergency foodbank in Leicester. A new piece of work: 1292 Foodbank Visits in 18 Weeks, Ruth Singer, 2020. Hand stitch on cotton. One thousand, two hundred and ninety two people supported by the emergency food bank my co-volunteers…

  • Fifteen Years

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    This summer I marked (but not really celebrated) 15 years of running my own creative business. I was hoping to bring out a new book this year covering what I’ve done in those years but this year has of course not gone remotely according to plan! I should have it ready next year. In the…

  • What it means to be an artist in 2020

    What it means to be an artist in 2020

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    At the end of May 2020 I was offered the chance to share my images and words via the Instagram account of Contemporary Visual Art Networks – East Midlands. I created a week’s worth of posts exploring my experience of being an artist in 2020, both before and during the time of Covid. I have…

  • Mini Prints

    Mini Prints

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    I want my work to be accessible to as many people as possible, so I have started producing mini prints from professional photos of my pieces. These are professionally-printed on high quality archival paper and each print is around 6x8inches (or a little smaller depending on borders) so somewhere between postcard and A5. These three…

  • Interview with CVAN East Midlands

    Interview with CVAN East Midlands

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    There’s an interview with me (done at the end of April) up on the CVAN East Midlands website.  I’ll be taking over CVAN EM Instagram from 25th May too, sharing my thoughts on what it is to be an artist in 2020. I’m doing a live Zoom interview with Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham, Director of CVAN-EM on…

  • Visit Criminal Quilts (online)

    Visit Criminal Quilts (online)

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    While my Criminal Quilts exhibition is behind bars (in boxes), I have created a free online version of the exhibition. I’ve included lots of high resolution images including details of embroidery, quilting and showing textures and stitches as much as possible. All the exhibition panels, labels and other resources are also on my website for…

  • Hand stitched textiles – creating cloth with meaning

    Hand stitched textiles – creating cloth with meaning

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    I am hosting a new three-day course at the lovely West Dean College, this June, one of only three workshops I am running this year. This art textiles course aims to be a relaxed and enjoyable adventure into creative textiles following the studio practice of textile artist Ruth Singer. Over the course of three days…

  • Refocussing towards social justice

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    Last autumn, on one of my many long work-related drives, I was pondering what kind of themes I wanted to explore in my work in 2020 and beyond. Two major projects had been filling my brain for months; Criminal Quilts and my personal work exhibitions Emotional Repair and Textile Traces. All of these had powerful,…

  • LSA Exhibition Prize

    LSA Exhibition Prize

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    I have three pieces in the Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester, until 7th December 2019. I’ve also been awarded a prize for one of these pieces, Pierced. The Artist Magazine sponsored this prize which was selected by independent judges: Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham – Director, East Midlands Contemporary Visual Arts Network…