2022
Bluedot Dirty Freud
Lagoons Solo Exhibition/ EP, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Flora Victorious Venture Arts/ PROFORMA, Venice Biennalle
Fountainia Manchester Jazz Festival Originals Commission
Familiars Solo exhibition/ Single, PAPER Gallery/ A Modest Show
Meet me in the Real Dirty Freud, Manchester Jazz Festival
PAPER After All Touring Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy
2015+
Into a Light Exhibition Saatchi Gallery, London
Glastonbury Festival Dirty Freud
Berlondon Jägermeister Night Embassy Berlin
Floronic Performance/ Video 48Hours Neukölln
Love letters to a Red Rose Dirty Freud, The Harris Preston
Love in the Backwater Dirty Freud EP/ video, Modern Sky
At Our Still Lives Poised Exhibition, Axel Orbinger, Berlin
Not Quite Light Night, The White Hotel Salford
In the Mirror with Me Performance, 48 Hours Neukölln Berlin
Like the Lines of a Hand Exhibition, C4RD London
Nile Chorus Performance, Manchester Museum
Ermine Solo exhibition, Chethams Library
Line and Fold Exhibition, Art Basel Switzerland
Buddha of the Bathroom Manchester Art Gallery
The Land Is Solo exhibition, PAPER Gallery
The Manchester Contemporary with PAPER Gallery
Menagerie in Blue Performance/ OST, sluice__ London
GM Arts Prize Award
Statement
Audiovisual Artist and Performer represented by PAPER Gallery and No Such Thing Records . Ruby’s practice is concerned with the reconstruction of familiar forms to present and document the extraordinary as authentic. A variety of media are manipulated and reassembled to create new ambiguous forms as works on paper, performances, installations, films and pieces of music. These collages aim to present an unnatural history with its own mythologies, where the boundaries between cryptozoic speculation and scientific evidence are obscured. A fascination with water, particularly wetlands habitat and herpetology roots her material and conceptual investigation, while self portraiture is employed performatively to allow an existence within her own stories. Her music mixes elements of natural sound, high range celestial vocals and inventive electronic instrumentation to produce romantic and dreamy, experimental ‘music from the swamp’.
Press
Local Sound Focus "Totally mesmerising... beautifully complex music... it's electronica with a soul"
"Louder than War "Let the watery ambience soak through you and you will find yourself singing the chorus in the shower for weeks"