Ruby Tingle is an award winning multimedia artist, Musician, curator and performer
represented by No Such Thing Records & PAPER Gallery.
Tingle works with expanded collage, nature conservation, heritage collections and progressive electronic music.
Her practice reconstructs the readymade and familiar into the fantastical, presenting unnatural histories, dreamworlds and new myths which blur the lines between science and cryptozoology. A fascination with the romance, folklore and creatures of wetlands habitat, herpetology, the botanical and the curious or hidden in nature roots her material and conceptual investigation. Swamp princess 'persona' exists both in reality and performance- her daily life reovolving around the care of pet amphibians and reptiles, wildlife, and wandering her local nature reserve in ballgowns.
Tingle's practice spans performance, installation, sound, music, work on paper, video, writing, soft sculpture, costume and interventions with museum collections. She works collaboratively with artists, curators and wildlife charities to invite larger environmental discussion, support nature conservation and activate historic archives.
Tingle creates genre splicing ‘music from the swamp’. Her visual lagoon fantasy world transforms into audio through a combination of electronica, natural sound, nu jazz, dance, experimental and avant- garde pop, culminating in luscious and enchanting serenades of beasts, slime and metamorphosis. She composes and produces hyper romantic and dreamy love songs rooted in nature.
‘Hauntingly Beautiful’
The Fortean Times
‘The dresses, ponds, amphibians, flowers, field recordings and half-human creatures belong to the same interconnecting world - part natural history, part private mythology -Ruby Tingle’s world is fantastical, but it is constructed through intense observation of the real one’
Mag North
'A sensual and artistic Odyssey... a mesmerising atmosphere, where every note and word seem to be meticulously chosen to create an immersive and intimate experience'
Iggy Magazine
'Her interest in the animal kingdom is visible in every part of the work, intertwined with the artist’s own romantic sensitivity and symbolism.'
Creative Tourist
'Ruby’s sound is as unique as it is engaging... Worthy of Danny Elfman comparisons... begs full immersion in order to experience the breadth of the artistic vision at play'
Necessary Outlet
'What’s crucial to know about Ruby Tingle as an artist, a performer and a musician is that every day is a ballgown and amphibian day... the persona of the swamp princess is a way of life'
The Fourdrinier
'Tingle has the rare talent of creating music that consumes you ... One of the most exquisite tracks you have ever heard....a celestial realm of enchantment... Prepare to be spellbound...'
Lost in the Manor
Selected Recent Work
2026 Wildings
Solo/ Curated Exhibition and music release at Pannett Art Gallery
Art fund Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant
Research project on the Soper collection with support from Whitby Naturalists
Performances at MusicPort Festival (in partnership with Whitby Lobster hatchery)
Whitby Literature Festival & Whitby Krampus Run Ball
2026 Songs from the Flood Meadow
Music performance/ project on Lancashire folklore
At st Mary’s parish church Radcliffe
With two crows studios
2026 A Rose is a Rose
Group exhibiton and touring project (UK, NY, Milan, LA)
Music Performance at 50MV Liverpool
2026 The Self Is a costume
Group performance exhibition at See Saw Manchester
2025 Loveland EP music release
Music performance at Strange Days Festival of Forteana
2024 AV Residency at The Met Bury
Music release, video and live showcase
2023 Afterlife
Solo exhibition and music release at The Whitaker
Arts Council England national lottery project grant
In partnership with Manchester centre for gothic studies and Professor Pat Morris
Performances, Artist talk & Panel discussion
2022 Flora Victorious
Collaborative performance with Joe Mills At Venice Biennale
Venture Arts Va collective commission
2022 Fountainia
Manchester jazz festival originals commission award
Music composition, EP release and performances at Barbirolli Square Fountain
2022 Familiars
Solo exhibition and music release at Paper Gallery
With British art show, A modest show/ eat Manchester artists
In partnership with axel obiger gallery berlin
Performance at Soup Manchester
2022 Lagoons
Solo exhibition & music release at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Support from Futures Venture radical arts funding
In partnership with Amphibian foundation, froglife & Manchester Museum Vivarium
2021 Floronic
Music performance and video commission for 48h Neukölln
(Live stream) with No Such Thing Records
2019 No Such Thing
Music release and performances
In the mirror with me at 48hnk Berlin
A performance with salamanders - Installation and music at Paper
Subcutaneous - animated Film & installation at Paper
Supported by tracing paper mentoring scheme
2018 Into a Light
Group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery with PAPER & LLE
2017 Ermine
Solo exhibition and performance at Chethams Library
With manifest arts
2017 The Land Is
Solo exhibition and music release at Paper Gallery
Exploring Paper residency
Music performances at HOME Manchester Performance and work showcase The Manchester contemporary
Further group shows and performances include Art Basel, Royal Cambrian Academy, Saul Hay, Comme Ca, Sluice London, Leeds Arts University, Bury Art Museum, Manchester Museum, Leicester Print Workshop, Centre for recent drawing, New Adelphi Club Hull, Night embassy Berlin, Manchester Art Gallery.
Ongoing Collaborations
Dirty Freud
(Composer, lyricist, singer, visuals)
WOMEX Bridgewater Hall, Radio X Live Lounge, Focus Wales,
Glasshouse ICM Residency & Live showcase, Future Echoes Sweden
New Colossus Festival NYC, Factory International Showcase, Bluedot
Love Letters to a Red Rose Project & Performance The Harris Preston
Love in The Backwater EP Modern Sky, Glastonbury Festival
Simon Woolham/ The Frog
(Costumes)
Afterlife Performances in Rawtenstall with Lucy Haighton
Lagoons Performances in Warrington
Not Quite Light Performance at The White Hotel Salford
Nile Chorus Performance at Manchester Museum
KINRAR & JONOA - The Birdmen, Live Band
Steven Calver - Olfactory Scent collaborations, various
Atomluft - The germination of your intentions on Darla Records
