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Ruth Singer

Leicester
Artist-maker exploring human experience expressed through thoughtful and emotionally-engaged textile practice..
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My practice is mainly studio-based, working on exhibitions and funded projects as well as collaborations and commissions. I established my practice in 2005 after 8 years in the museum sector and have combined my work with teaching, writing and consultancy work. 

Residencies and funded projects allow me to explore new ideas, develop new bodies of work and engage in deep relationships with the source materials. I often work with heritage and my work draws heavily on my first career in museums. I am fascinated by material culture, history and the power of objects in human lives. In my work I aim to explore  and illuminate narrative and places as well as how we respond to and interact with objects and materials in our daily lives, the traces and stories we leave behind. I work predominantly with hand stitch and textile exploring ideas including hidden stories, creating visual records of ephemeral experiences, stains and marks, change and decay as well as intensely personal and emotive stories around loss and remembrance. 

I work mainly with old cloth, found objects, thread and natural materials which I combine with hand stitch, natural dye, quilting, appliqué and mixed media. I work in series or groups of work in response to research and my practice encompasses hangings, quilts, small objects and installations which all have distinctive feel of preciousness and delicacy created with the combination of hand stitch, fragile fabrics and emotive subject matter. I am currently working on several residencies and exhibition projects and hope to expand my portfolio to include public art and more commissions.

 

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