Ruth Geldard CV
Education
MA Fine Art, Sculpture and Performance UCA Canterbury 2010
BA Hons Fine Art UCA Canterbury 2009
Fine Art Foundation Course Thanet School of Art
Awards and Achievements
Invited to become Associate member of Limbo Arts 2013
Axis Web curatorial choice of the week February 18th, 2013Voted Number 1. in Top Ten 'Artists Talking' monthly project blogs for Artists Newsletter (from September to November) 2012
Awarded postgraduate Scholarship 2010
Residencies, Projects, and Publications
Invited Artist's Talk: Leonardo and Me, for the Sevenoaks Visual Artists Forum at the Kaleidoscope Gallery Sevenoaks, 2012
Review of Odds Against Tomorrow: Exhibit D in Glass Magazine
Feature article about my work in Collage Magazine Issue 2 December 2012
Art Lands on an Alien Landscape volunteer as part of the Limbo Arts programme in Margate 2011
Just a Bunch of Ordinary Women: Nine Portraits at Sutton Park Women’s Prison 2008
Staff Portraits pop-up residency "live" portrait sessions and rolling exhibition at Asda Supermarket Broadstairs 2006
BBC Radio 4's Home Truths discussing relationship with Sylvia Spall, mother of actor Timothy Spall 2002
The Big Draw Lead Figure Drawing Workshop at the British Museum 2001
Understanding Oils demonstration video for Daler- Rowney filmed in my studio 2000
The Big Draw Invited Artist South Kensington subway 2000
Three-month artist in residence at the Powell-Cotton Natural History Museum 1999
Feature article about my work in Wall Breakers online creative network
Selected Group and Solo Shows sculpture/assemblage.
Work selected for Uncovered Collective and included in their group show Derelict, at The Safehouse, London 2023
Work selected for The Turner Contemporary Open, at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate, 2012 - 2022
Invited artist group exhibition using paper manufactured in 1940, Paper Trail at Maidstone Museum 2021
Invited artist group exhibition Neither Use nor Ornament at the Ovada exhibition space, Oxford, 2019
Solo Show Old Bags, trialling work in preparation for Neither Use nor Ornament, The New Kent Art Gallery, Broadstairs 2018
Selected pieces for, THE FEMALE GAZE: An Introspective, at the Depot Gallery, Hackney, 2017
Pretty in Pink: What Makes a Woman? Bath Artists' Studios, Bath 2015
Selection of work made especially for a one-off performance of The Vagina Monologues at The Tom Thumb Theatre, starring: Rita Tushingham, Pauline McGlyn, Amy Lame, Joanna Scanlon and Beverly Hills, Margate 2013
Odds Against Tomorrow Bearspace Gallery London, 2012
All At Sea the Pie Factory Gallery, Margate 2012
Unspoken Ceremonies at the Parlour Gallery, London, 2011
U-N-F-O-R-S-E-E-N You Tell Us! at Studio 106 Gallery, London, 2012
Beta Version 2.0 Invited Artist Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks Kent, 2012
Parallax Art Fair Pall Mall, London, 2011
Vessel Site specific installation for Canterbury Festival, Canterbury, 2011
All Things Bright and Beautiful Store Street Gallery, London 2011
To Feminise, site-sensitive installation for A Canterbury Trail Canterbury 2011
Landmark Gallery, Exhibition Teddington, London 2011
MA Show UCA Canterbury, 2010
Art and Film Festival Interim Show Hazzlitt Theatre, Maidstone, 2010
The Art of Kitsch Herbert Read Gallery Canterbury, 2010
Selected Group and Solo Shows Painting
Carina Haslam Gallery London, Group Show 2006
Jenny Granger Gallery Whitstable, Group show 2006
The Powell-cotton Natural History Museum solo show 1999
Medici Gallery London Group shows 1992 to 1996
New Ashgate Gallery Farnham solo and group shows
Phillip Maslen Gallery Canterbury solo shows 1990 and 1991
Nevil Gallery Canterbury group shows
Work Selected for Open Exhibitions in London 1999-2006
The Royal Academy
The Royal Watercolour Society
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
The Royal Portrait Society
The New English Art Club
The Royal Society of British Artists
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