Approved: 25.07.2016

RUTH MIEMCZYK

Artist, Maker, Teacher

Approved: 25.07.2016

Painting is for me a visual language and is experienced as such through its colour, shape, space, scale and through its visible processes. I work in an improvisatory way, staying alert to the different stages in the life of a painting, allowing the accidental or unintentional to influence my decisions. Through the painting process, personal histories and associations emerge and also affect the direction

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  • Location: SCARBOROUGH, North East
 

Artist Statement

Painting is for me a visual language and is experienced as such through its colour, shape, space, scale and through its visible processes. I work in an improvisatory way, staying alert to the different stages in the life of a painting, allowing the accidental or unintentional to influence my decisions. Through the painting process, personal histories and associations emerge and also affect the direction a work proceeds. I want to create a purely visual dialogue and with this in mind I have been making paintings and drawing/collages that deliberately make reference to each other, sometimes by a mimicking repetition and sometimes by being divided or separated. I am particularly drawn to the diptych form and this dominates much of my current work. I am conscious of the connection to the universal themes of duality and unity but don't deliberately set out to explore this.

CV & Education

Solo Exhibitions. 2015, Crescent Arts. Scarborough. 2008, Maude Road House Exhibition, London. 2006, Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley. 2006, Poleski Osrodek Sztuki, Lodz, Poland. 2005, Camelford Gallery, Cornwall. 2003, Dwor Karwacjanow. Gorlice, Poland. 2001, The Burton Gallery, Bideford. 1999, North Cornwall Gallery and Museum. 1998, The Plough Arts Centre. Torrington. 1991, The Blackboy Gallery. West Wycombe. 1988, Princes Risborough Community Centre (post residency exhibition) 1985 Buckingham University. 1981-93, ten solo shows with "Art in Hospitals". Residencies. 1988-89, Princes Risborough Community Centre. 2002-03-04-05-06, B W A Dwor Karwacjanow, Gorlice, Poland. 2015-16, Crescent Arts. Scarborough. Awards,  2004, Individual Artist Award. British Arts Council.