Ruth is a Visual Artist and TV Director with a background in both fine art and animation. She studied Fine Art Painting at UWE Bristol before completing a Postgraduate degree in Animation at Central Saint Martins in London. Her early career led her into children’s television, where she spent over two decades directing shows for Disney Junior, Universal Kids, Sky Kids and CBBC, amongst others. After a 25-year break from her studio practice, Ruth recently returned to making art with a renewed focus. She now balances her time between Directing for television and developing her personal art practice.
Ruth Ducker Art
Each piece has a story. Some stories are embedded in the objects, some stories emerge as objects come together.
I work with discarded materials, broken objects, things destined for landfill.
I work with found and discarded objects. Each piece has a story, the meaning might lie in a single item or emerge from the relationship between the parts.
While some of the elements, collected over the years, carry personal significance, my aim is to create something that can be approached without context. I leave space for the viewer to respond freely, to see their own story in the layers. I give hints to the history and my relationship with the items in the titles, which can be a point of conversation to share my own narrative.
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