Tag: Ruth Singer
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Made in the Middle
I’m helping Craftspace promote their wonderful exhibition opportunity for Made in the Middle 2025. I just looked up when it was that I took part in this show with my Interlace collaboration. I’m shocked to see it was 2016! That seems so long ago now. But I have nothing but good memories from that project.…
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Cultures of Care Group
What is Cultures of Care Group? This online monthly session is a space for reflection, thinking and conversation about care in creative practice. Why is this happening? It’s part of my ongoing Cultures of Care project, exploring themes of care in my work. The Cultures of Care Group is a free session once a month…
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Words About Women
Way back in 2022, as I was preparing the final version of Criminal Quilts exhibition for Llantarnam Grange, I devised a collaborative project to mark the end of over 10 years working with the stories of women in the criminal justice system in the 19th century. The idea was to create a collaborative artwork with…
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Art-Science project installed in The James Hutton Institute
A recent McFarland & Singer project with The James Hutton Institute is now complete. I’ve been working with Gillian McFarland on this project for a couple of years and the artwork has been delivered to the Hutton Institute. Read more on the McFarland & Singer website. Ruth & Gillian have been collaborating with Dr Isabelle Colas at…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 39 Artist Support Recipes
In this last conversation of series three, I’ve brought together five members of a group called Artist Support Recipes. A couple of years ago I brought together a group of artists to explore thoughts and ideas about artist support and development. We had some funding to meet for a year and put together some resources…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 38 with Claire Morris-Wright
This week I’m talking to artist Claire Morris-Wright, an artist in neighbouring Northamptonshire, who I’ve known for a few years and always enjoy talking too. We talk about looking closely and thinking deeply, about slow processing of ideas and about sharing and connecting as a fundamental part of both our practices. Claire Morris-Wright is a…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 37 with Amy Twigger Holroyd
In this end of 2023 episode, I’m talking to Amy Twigger Holroyd, who is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design, and in her previous life was a knitwear designer and innovator. We go back quite a long way to my early days as a designer maker and the…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 36 with Bridget Harvey
Bridget is a maker and researcher who uses ideas around repair to reanimate discarded objects and to tell new stories about our relationship to everyday things. In this conversation we talk about where our interests in object histories and museums converge and about how sharing our research interests in various ways fuels our ongoing curiosity about…
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Where next?
Working out what’s the right thing to do in 2024 The world is pretty confusing and distracting at the moment isn’t it? It seems harder than ever to focus on your own little world of creative practice when there is so much horror and injustice happening. I’m not claiming this course will fix anything wrong…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 34 Q&A with Ruth Singer
In this episode you’ll hear an edited version of a live Q&A recorded last month on Zoom. The audience were invited to ask questions about my practice in general, or specific current or past projects. You’ll hear me talk about topics including care practices within organisations, caring for others and its impact on practice, and…
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