Recognising rhythm (vibration) as the connecting thread between the material and non-material worlds, Ruth’s constructed drawings and shadow paintings transcribe how human biology connects with the mind and how both might connect to spirit.
“Utilising the woven medium as a grid and the metaphor of mapping, I chart my journey to inner peace. Weft represents my local consciousness, the horizontal path of earthly experience whether mental, emotional or physical. The luminous vertical warp strands represent numinous conduits to states of awareness difficult to grasp through noetic enquiry.
A cartography of feeling contours rhythms of the body, waves of emotion, pulses of thought and vibrations of spirit. The semiotics of thread became a scripture, a metaphorical transcript of an inner dialogue.
Together warp and weft make the whole cloth as I return to wholeness.”
Ruth’s contemporary artworks hang in space as dividers or screens and upon walls (framed and unframed) as constructed drawings, shadow paintings and digital prints. Construction techniques include hand spinning and weaving, dyeing, papermaking, Photoshop and the coiling of wires. I draw particular inspiration from Contemporary Japanese Fibre artists.
Ruth Howard
Awards
Academic
- 2003 BA Fine Art HONS, ANU School of Art, Canberra, Australia
- 2000 BA Textile Design, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Awards
- 2003 First Prize, ANU School of Art Drawing Prize
- 2000 Heriot-Watt University The Incorporation Of Weavers Prize, Glasgow
- 2000 Drapers Award Travelling Scholarship, to Denmark, Sweden, London
- 2000 First prize Heriot-watt University Student Union Bar, Scotland
Gallery Links
Gallery
Textile Workshop Mindmap
ANU Foyer Gallery |
Mind Map
ANU Foyer Gallery |
Memory of Water
ANU Drawing Prize |
Nine Shadow Paintings
On Polypropylene (Sold) |
Secrets of Nine Works
on Trace Paper
ANU Grad |
ANU Gallery Grad
Installation Slide
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Cosmic Scripture DNA
Cooloola Gallery (SOLD) |
Mind Map
Cooloola Gallery |
Internal Weather
Framed Script (SOLD) |
Peace Crop
Yin Yang
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Lindsey Pollack Performing
Cooloola Opening Night |
Meridians Large Knots
and Fringe |
Shadow Nine
Cooloola Gallery (SOLD) |
Prayer Script |
Mind Map, Body (Meridians) Map, Heart Map |
Prayer
Shadow Painting
Cooloola Gallery |
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