Ruth Barry

RSA New Contemporaries 2009

2009-03-03T12:08:00.001-08:00

Installation view

Untitled (2009) - Watercolour and ink on paper

Untitled (2009) - Felt tip pen on tissue

A Photograph of My Hand Reflected in a Photograph of My Parents at a Wedding One Month Before Their Own Marriage (2009) - Photograph

An Upside Down, Highly Inaccurate Representation of the Earth, Minus Greenland (2009) - Watercolour and pencil on tissue

Untitled (Rockette) (2008) - Water colour on paper

Who Am I? What Do I Do? (2009) - Unfired clay and watercolour

Who Am I? What Do I Do? (2009) - Unfired clay & watercolour, tissue soaked in every watercolour mixed on my palette

Who Am I? What Do I Do? (2009) - Plastic bottle, gold paint, tissue, ink

Who Am I? What Do I Do? (Cheryl) (2009) - Papier maché made from every picture I could find in my Mum's magazines of Cheryl Cole, acrylic paint, ink, charcoal

Who Am I? What Do I Do? (2009) - Unfired clay, watercolour, wire

Fragments of Demeter/Recalling Poseidon (2008) - Degree Show Statement

2008-06-14T13:19:00.000-07:00

Fragments of Demeter/Recalling Poseidon

Δημήτηρ/Ποσειδῶν (Demeter/Poseidon)

In Greek mythology Demeter was the goddess of grain and fertility, her name translating as distribution mother or mother-earth. Poseidon, whose name signifies consort of the distributer, pursued Demeter only to have his advances spurned by the goddess. In an attempt to divert his attention from her, Demeter disguised her divinity by transforming herself into a mare and roamed among the horses of King Onkios. Poseidon was not fooled and, by turning himself into a stallion, he raped her.

The supernatural influence of mythology allows cultures to make sense of nature and humanity and that which does not always make sense. Fragments of Demeter explores the reality of a complex and personal history in which recollections of the same event are characterised and fractioned, and space is peppered with ambiguity, chaos and control. Methods of control and disorder bridge the gap between personal and public reality, quietly revealing things that go unsaid.

Fragments of Demeter/Recalling Poseidon (2008)

2008-06-14T03:41:00.000-07:00

Installation View

Digital projection, steel plinth, birch plywood, paper, foldback clips, mouse bones - Dimensions variable

Saddle, horse hair, ribbon, steel plinth, birch plywood, mirror - Dimensions Variable

Photograph on MDF - 200 x 220 mm

Horse hair, mouse bones, snaffle bit - Dimensions variable

Photograph matt laminated on MDF - 1220 x 610 mm

Untitled (Explosion)

2008-04-27T13:32:00.000-07:00

Film still - gunpowder explosion

Epitaphs

2008-04-13T13:41:00.000-07:00

Tree, flowers - Dimensions variable

Tree, flowers, mirror - Dimensions variable

Tree, flower petals - Dimensions variable

View II

2008-03-23T00:44:00.001-07:00

Pencil on rag paper 42 x 59.7 cm

View I

2008-03-23T00:41:00.001-07:00

Polaroid photograph, oak frame 40 x 50 cm

Recalling reactions to the same event

2008-01-31T08:04:00.000-08:00

Edinburgh College of Art - 30 January 2008

Video projection 26 x 19 cm

Plaster - cast from life

Photograph on foam board 36 x 53 cm

Photograph on foam board 126 x 84 cm

Pencil drawing on rag paper 30 x 30 cm

2008-01-09T12:28:00.000-08:00

From here. To there. From there. To here. From here. Round there. Down there. To here.

2007-11-14T09:48:00.000-08:00

There is no place for it.
There is no place for it here.
There is no place for you.
There is no place for you here.
There was no place for it.
There was no place for it here.
There was no place for you here.
There is one place for it.
There are two places for it.
There are three places for it.
There are four places for it.
I don't think there are other places for it.
There is a fifth place for it.
That is the last place for it.

Save the sixth place for it.

2007-11-14T09:46:00.002-08:00

A wise old owl sat in an oak,

The more she saw the less she spoke,

The less she spoke the more she heard,

Was that really wise old bird?

2007-11-14T09:46:00.001-08:00

2007-11-14T09:45:00.000-08:00

2007-11-14T09:44:00.000-08:00

2007-11-14T09:41:00.000-08:00