By-product, Etching/Aquatint, 2015
Bio
Ruth Uglow is a contemporary artist working in drawing and print.
Uglow’s work explores the drawn line as an expression of life and hybridity within nature. The details within forms like a germinating seed pod, the entanglement and envelopment of growth allows her to transform the mechanics of nature through drawing into print. Of her work she says, ‘I’m interested in my prints creating an expectation of reverberation of sound or engaging with the physical through the object in space, so the viewer immerses themselves within the print.’
Uglow graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2000 and is a member of the Contemporary Arts Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. She lives and makes work at Littleton Studios in North Devon.
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EDUCATION
2000 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art: Printmaking, London, UK
1998 Winchester School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Printmaking, UK
1995 Falmouth School of Art and Design, Art Foundation, Cornwall, UK
AWARDS
2019 Awagami Paper Prize
2014 Clifford Chance Purchase Award
2009 T N Lawrence Art Materials Prize
2008 Fenton Art Trust Award
2007 Joseph Webb Commemorative Award
University of Wales, Aberystwyth School of Art Gallery and Museum Purchase Prize
2006 Fenton Arts Trust Award
2005 Ashmolean Purchase Prize
Birgit Skiold Memorial Award
2003 The Royal Overseas League Travel Scholarship- South Africa
2002 Printmaking Today Prize, National Print Exhibition, The Mall Gallery
RESIDENCIES
2019 Yinchuan International Printmaking Centre, Yinchuan, China
2005 The Malaspina Printmaking Society Artist in Residence, Vancouver, Canada
The Plains Art Museum Artist in Residence, North Dakota, USA
2004 Barking College Artist in Residence, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
Yinchuan International Printmaking Centre, China; Clifford Chance; Aberystwyth Museum, Wales; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The Plains Art Museum, North Dakota; St Pauls School, London; Royal Free Hospital, London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2024 RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery London
2020 Under the Skin, Royal College of Physicians, London
2019 Art and Science, Milton Gallery, London
2019 NOPE, National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2019 RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
2019 Art and Science Exhibition, St Pauls School, London
2016 International Biennial Print Exhibition:ROC, Taiwan
2016 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, London
2016 The Master-Etching, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London
2015 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, London
2014 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, London
2012 6th International Kyoto Hanga 2012, International Print Exhibition Japan/UK
2012 Bite, Mall Galleries, London,
2011 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, London
2010 Imperfect Recall, The Architects Gallery, London
2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
2010 14th International Print Exhibition, National Museum Taiwan of Fine Arts
COMMISSIONS
2016 Scleroderma, The Royal Free Hospital, London
2013 Contemporary Art Society Commission for The Royal Free Hospital, London, to create 10 drawings to celebrate its research into Infectious diseases, Viruses and Stem cells.