Chariot
[c-type print]
2022

Ruth Proctor (b. UK) lives and works in Uk and Morocco

Ruth Proctor’s multidisciplinary practice, which comprises sculpture, photography and performance, explores ephemerality, place, time and artifice. Proctor’s performances have been presented internationally, at institutions such as the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017); Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL, Mexico City (2017); Nida Art Colony, Lithuania (2017) and at Camden Art Centre, London (2013) and Somerset House, London 2018.

Selected solo exhibitions include As if Nothing Happened, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin (2016); Putting It On, Hollybush Gardens, London; Still Not Fixed, John Jones Project Space, London (both 2015); I was there, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin (2014); Falling Backwards, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (2013); I’ll be your Mirror, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London; Greetings, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin (both 2011); Luck and Protection, Hollybush Gardens, London (2010); The Stranger and the Savant, Hollybush Gardens, London (2008); and Bowl me Over, Hollybush Gardens, London (2006). 

Selected group exhibitions include Every Object is a Thing but not Every Thing is an Object, Hollybush Gardens, London (2018); Good things come…, Plymouth College of Art (2016); Risk, Turner Contemporary; On Dynamics and Monuments, Kunstverein Nürnberg, (both 2015); On The Tip of My Tongue, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy (2014); The World Turned Upside Down, Mead Gallery, Warwick; Reach Out and Touch Me, Hollybush Gardens, London; and Drawing Biennial 2013, The Drawing Room, London (all 2013). She was commissioned by Cambridge University to create We Are All Under The Same Sky (2016), a permanent artwork currently installed at The University of Cambridge Primary School, UK. Her work is included in international public collections such as Frac Franche Comte, Besançon, France; The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM), Turin. 

representing galleries:

Hollybush Gardens – London, United Kingdom

Norma Mangione – Turin, Italy