Ruth Schryber
Ruth’s art-making process begins through fragmentation and re-combination of sections of her previous paintings in order to create anew. Juxtaposing these painted pieces into new compositions forms an initial cohesive surface. While this stage is primarily a process of physical assemblage, using construction methods such as gluing, taping and affixing to a support, it is also a process of painterly decision-making. Fragments of material, which are already painted, now become an integrated surface upon which a new painting can be started.
The lines which she paints upon these constructed surfaces are traced and projected from drawings which further integrate the materials of her practice. Motifs get repeated from painting to painting, intersecting across multiple layers connecting past surfaces to present and future decision-making. A visual connective tissue thus emerges which reinforces the cyclical nature of Ruth’s material processes. Through painting these recycled motifs again and again, on painted surfaces that are repeatedly fragmented and re-combined, her focus turns ever inward to the act of making itself.
Education
2014-2025 PhD Arts Management, Birkbeck College, University of London
2012-2013 MRes Arts Practice, Chelsea College of Arts & Design
2003-2004 PgDip Fine Art, University of Reading
1998-2001 BA(Hons) Fine Art (Painting), Wimbledon School of Art
1997-1998 BTEC Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Wimbledon School of Art
Practice – Research Presentations
2023 Loosen Up! Sharing Methods of Analysis in Practice – Research (Corkscrew), The
Studio at the ICA, London
2023 What Happens After the Last Page? Conducting Practice- Research Analysis from
Sketchbook Drawings, FMACS Doctoral Conference, Keynes Library, Birbeck
(School of Arts), University of London
2019 Drawing from Art Practice: Performance Observations of Artists at Work
(Corkscrew), Birbeck, (School of Arts), University of London
2017 ‘Stealth Art’ : A Model for Combining Art Practice with Self – Subsidy Through
Part Time Work, 5th Student led Doctoral Conference, Birbeck, (School of
Arts), University of London
2016 Turning My Old Paintings into New Paintings, FMACS MPhil/PhD ‘Show-and-Tell’
End of Year Conference, Birkbeck Cinema, University of London
2013 JAWS Launched Issue 2, The Journal of Arts Writing by Students, The Old Library,
Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Exhibitions
2024 Vice and Virtue, Ruup & Form, London
2018 Transcendence, Cello Factory, London
2018 The Inner Construct, Joanna Bryant and Julian Page, Foundry Gallery, London
2018 London Art Fair (Projects), Joanna Bryant and Julian Page, London
2017 Manchester Contemporary, Joanna Bryant and Julian Page, Manchester
2016 InterRailing, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London
2016 Drawn For Something Else, Rogue Artists, Manchester
2016 View of Delft: The World in Art, New Court Gallery, Repton, Derbyshire
2015 Digging Deeper, Joanna Bryant Projects, Frameless Gallery, London EC 1R
2014 Deptford x Fringe Festival, St Nicholas Church, Deptford Green, London
2014 (Detail), Usher Gallery, Lincoln, H-Project Gallery, Bangkok, Transition, London
2014 Speaker’s Corner, BL-NK Gallery, Old Street, London
2014 Hey Days!, Bermondsey Project, London
2013 Where’s MRes? (MRes Final show), Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2012 Games People Play, Nolia’s Gallery, London SE1
2011 Candy Mountains, Arbeit Gallery, Helmet Row, London, EC1
2011 Paintworks 25th Anniversary, Idea Generation Gallery, Brighton
2010 Occidental Dimensions, Brighton University Gallery, Brighton
2009 Light Paintings (Solo), The German Lutheran Church, Aldgate, London
2009 Thresholds (Solo), Hive Gallery, Yorkshire
2008 Present, Hive Gallery, Yorkshire
2007 Paintings (Solo), Trinity Gallery, Kent
2007 Disposable Fetish, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2006 Natural Light, Player’s Lounge, London
2005 Afterimage, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Awards & Residencies
2016-2021 School of Arts Scholarship, Birkbeck, University of London
2008-2014 Live/Work Artist at Balfron Tower, Bow Arts Trust, London
2000 ERASMUS Bursary, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Italy
Open Competitions (shortlisted)
2016 Artworks Open 2016, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2015 The London Group Draw II, The Cello Factory, London
2013 Centenary London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
2013 Anonymous Drawings, Anonyme Zeichner, Berlin
2012 BEEP Wales, Volcano Theatre, Swansea
2012 SE1 Open, Bermondsey Project Space, London SE1
2011 London Group Open, The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London
2011 Open Open, Swiss Cottage Library, London
2010 Crash Open Salon Show, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2010 London Art Award, 3 Bedfordbury Gallery, London
2007 Multicomplexificationalities, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2006 The Stars Down to Earth, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2005 Sketch 2005, Seven Seven & Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre
Open Studios
2022-2024 Leyton Studios, Bow Arts, London
2014-2016 Limehouse Arts Foundation, London
2005-2008 Bow Road, Bow Arts Trust, London
2001-2003 Wimbledon Art Studios, London
Curatorial Projects
2018-2023 Curator, Organizer, and Exhibiting artist, Annual Leytonstone Arts Trail
Exhibition, Leytonstone and Wanstead Synagogue, London
2012-2013 Curator and Co-organizer, Needle’s Eye four artist exhibition, Transition
Gallery, London, Repton Gallery, Derbyshire; BayArt Gallery, Cardiff
2010-2012 Co-organizer and Exhibiting artist, Bat Pack group exhibition at Mile End Art
Pavilion, London
2010 Organizer, Curator and Tour Leader for Open House London, Flat 139 Balfron
Tower, Poplar, London
Catalogues
2014 (detail) curated by Andrew Bracey
2013 MA & MRes Degree Show: Where’s MRes? Curated by Dr. Paul Ryan
2013 Centenary London Group Open selected by The London Group
2011 London Group Open selected by The London Group
2010 Occidental Dimensions: From West to The East curated by Marek Tobolewski
2007 Multicomplexificationalities curated by Roy Exley
2006 The Stars Down to Earth curated by Andrew Hunt
