Ruth Glasheen focuses on the complexities of our visual understanding of the world around us. She is fascinated by images and shapes seen in the landscape, how we decipher them, what we take them to mean. Glasheen explores themes of connotation, inference, and coded meaning that give rise to repetitions of colour and form. Acts of reinterpretation engage her in the studio, taking the form of site-specific interventions, sculptural objects, and installations.

Through an active engagement with a particular landscape - its archaeology, surface patterns and atmosphere – a physical and imagined sense of place is triggered.

 Biography

I am an artist from Sussex working across weaving, sculpture and installation. I recently graduated from West Dean College of Art and Conservation with an M.F.A. with distinction, 2022 (University of Sussex). I completed a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, at West Dean, 2019. I also have a B.A. Hons in Textile Design, (Farnham). I have worked as a teacher specialising in Art and SEND, and have postgraduate and specialist teaching qualifications.

I was shortlisted for “New Contemporaries” 2022. I have had work exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, “Collect 2017”, and featured in magazines World of Interiors, Modern Rustic, and Country Living. My work has been exhibited in recent exhibitions in London and Sussex and I have curated and exhibited with 2 fellow artists in Sheffield, July 2023 and Portsmouth October 2023.

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