RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
'HAVE YOU SEEN MY DADDY'
An installation on Folkestone Harbour Station - Remembrance Sunday 2011
.........IN ACCENTS DISCONSOLATE
An Installation: Folkestone Harbour Station - August, 2011
Shepway District Council Summer Events Guide
http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk
Ruth searches out ruins, where nature and culture vie with each other; she courts anachronism. Plaster has an ethereal nature; its fragility and the propensity to easily dissolve, contribute greatly to the nature of this piece of work.
FRINGE
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FOLKESTONE HARBOUR STATION
10000 x 1000
Sunday, 14th November, 2010 at 11am.
An Installation using 1,000 metres of red ribbon
OCTOBER 2010:
CANTERBURY ARTS FESTIVAL
'BY ROTE'
A prescriptive piece of work using the colours, red, white & black.
In response to the disappearance of a crucial Battle of Britain airfield, under a blanket of cloned buildings, I produced a piece of work, using an old map. With vintage red thread I stitched the perimeter of the airfield. I then placed, at random, various roman numerals. A needle remained in the paper; part of the airfield, the fuel dump, has, as yet not been acquired by developers. Hawkinge Battle of Britain Museum, is trying to save it.
Numbers = money - people - lives lost..........
Vintage Thread = threads of history, lives, memories.....
Red = love - danger - war - death
AUGUST 2010
'IF..' FOLKESTONE HARBOUR STATION
To mark the 96th anniversary of the beginning of WWI.
Red roses donated by florists, accompanied letters posted by soldiers in Folkestone, 1914-18.
JANUARY 2010
HERBERT READ GALLERY 100 JOURNALS PROJECT
Many journals were posted to artists in Kent. Within the journal I received, I constructed a box towards the end, using cardboard and paper. Placed within the box, which is sealed with a button and ribbon, I placed photographs of soldiers' letters, written and posted in Folkestone, during the Great War. Included is a copy of Wilfred Owen's poem, Dulce et Decorum Est; Wilfred Owen was one of the millions of soldiers who passed through Folkestone Harbour Station, en route to the Western Front.