Ruth Wallace

Working mainly in drawing media, I explore themes of memory, absence and female identity. Empty domestic interiors are a recurring motif, with their traces of people which still resonate when the people themselves have gone.
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Many of my drawings explore the borderland between absence and presence and ideas of walls holding stories and ghosts within them. I also frequently return to the human head, itself a repository of memories and narratives, as the subject for series of drawings.
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I hold a BA from Bath Academy of Art and an MA in Fine Art from the University of the West of England. I worked in publishing for many years and also administered arts projects whilst my children were young and, since 2008, I have been working from studios in Bristol and also teaching at the Royal West of England Academy Drawing School. I have been based at BV Studios since they opened in 2010. My work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, has won awards and is held in private collections.