CV – Ruth Piper Visual Artist
Mob: +447711541852
Email: ruth@ruthpiper.com
www.ruthpiper.com
Studio
G6, BV Studios, 37 Philip Street,
Bristol, BS3 4EA
Qualifications & Awards
MA Painting – Wimbledon School of Art, London
BA Fashion & Textiles – Kingston Polytechnic, Surrey
Diploma – Integrated PR & Marketing, London School of Public Relations
Practice summary
My work hinges on notions of transition, transformation and adaptation: that link to a physical, psychological and mystical experience of place and belonging: located in the transitional mythological landscape between knowing and the unconscious, where dreams and reality merge.
Exhibitions/residencies/projects
| 2020
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Contemporary Painters 2020, Centrespace Gallery, 20 artists (met via paintersnetwork_sw) ‘Material World’, 44AD Art Space Associates show, Bath Spa Residency at ‘the Garage (Clifton, Bristol) with Painter Dan Hampson (cut short by lockdown) to be re-scheduled #artistsupportpledge |
| 2019
2018
2017 |
‘Alta Ego’ 44AD Associates exhibition, Bath ‘Anderswo ist hier’ (“Elsewhere is Here’) Bristol Artists Exchange Project) 10 Artists (5 from hanover), Centrespace Gallery, Bristol BV Open Studios Bath Open submission exhibition, 44AD Art Space, Bath (Bath Fringe) Lane House Arts, group Pop-up Exhibition @ Lane House, Curated by Jenny Pollitt BV Open Studios ‘Anderswo ist hier’ (“Elsewhere is Here’) Turba Gallery, Linden, Hannover (Bristol & Hannover Artists Exchange Project) 10 Artists (5 from Bristol) RWA Secret Postcard Auction Radiant’ That Art Gallery, December group show, Bristol BV Open Studios Brownsword Hepworth summer show, Walton Street, Chelsea, London Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke, Yorkshire Brisons Veor two week residency, Cape Cornwall |
| 2016 | BV Open Studios Lane House Arts, Bath (solo) Millfield Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset Evolver cover competition exhibition, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset Shifting Divides – Drawing & Print. Group show, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol RWA Autumn Exhibition Black Swan Arts Open 2016, Frome, Somerset |
| 2015 | Zeitgeist members show, Deptford BV Open Studios, Bristol |
| 2014 | New paintings & collage, Phoenix Gallery Café, Exeter (solo) Curated ‘Shooting from the Hip’ The Searchers Roaming Group, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol BV Open Studios Sidcot Community Gallery, Somerset,10 Artists from BV Studios – Bristol |
| 2013
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‘Life in the plan view’ The Searchers contemporary, Bristol ‘Tumbleweed’ The Searchers contemporary, Bristol |
| 2012
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APT, Creekside Open, selected by Paul Noble Millfield Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset Exeter contemporary Open, Phoenix Gallery, Installation of 5 paintings, DAC Beachcroft Artspace, Bristol Launched The Searchers, a one year POP-UP Gallery project in an empty shop, St Michaels Hill, Bristol Curated 11 exhibitions with artists from Bristol, South West & London |
| 2011 | ‘Mini abstractions’ Other landscapes, Royal United Hospital, Bath. ‘New constructivists’ annual painting show. Institute of Physics, Portland Place, London |
| 2010 | ‘On the Cusp’ 3 women artists, FORM + CONTENT Gallery, 210 N 2nd Street, Minneapolis. USA |
| 2009 | RWA Autumn Exhibition |
| 2008 | ‘Internal Cosmology’. Centrespace Gallery, Bristol. ‘Colour & Landscape’ Bower Ashton Gallery, UWE ‘First Wave’ Bute Space, Cardiff Bay, Wales. RWA Autumn Exhibition |
| 2006 2007 |
‘New Constructivists’ Regents College, London ‘New Constructivists’ The Keyworth Centre, South London University ‘Fusion Arts’, painting show, The Baxter Gallery, Kingston Grammar School, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey |
| 2005 | View Gallery, Summer Show, Thames Ditton, Surrey View Gallery, Group show Thames Ditton, Surrey. ‘Cross Section’ New constructivists, The Royal College of Pathologists, Carlton House Terrace, London. Spinach Design Consultancy, Islington, London. Installation of paintings. Artist’s talk. (solo) |
| 2004
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‘Inner Circle’ New Constructivists, The Knapp Gallery, Regents College, London. OXO Tower Gallery, London. Selected Artists from Wimbledon Art Studios, sponsored by Aston Martin. ‘Signs of Life & Love’, Stables Gallery, Gladstone Park, London. (solo) |
| 2003 2002 2001 2000
1989
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‘Diverse’ MA show The Hanbury Gallery, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London. MA graduate show, ING Bank, City of London. ‘City Limits’ Three Painters, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London. ‘A Kind of Architecture’. The Studio Gallery, Chiswick Artist in residence, Cotto Restaurant, Olympia New Paintings, Cotto Restaurant, Olympia (solo) New Paintings, Solo show, Freuds Café, Walton Street, Oxford Gas Showroom, Oxford Artists Group, painting show ‘Paintings & Products’ Bartley Drey Gallery, Chelsea. ‘Defrag’, Soan Gallery, Fulham (solo) 91’ & 92’ – RA Summer Exhibition Commissioned by James West Fine Art. 40 small paintings for ‘The Art Supermarket’ at Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge. ’90 – The Cherwell Boathouse, Oxford (solo) |