Ruth Ander - This Roaring Peace - 8-27 February 2025

Ruth Ander was awarded the Zillah Bell Prize at Printfest 2024 and will be having a solo exhibition of her prints in February 2025.

Straddling the space between painting and printmaking, Ruth's gestural monotypes, drypoints and mixed media pieces strive to evoke the sublimity of ancient landscapes and seascape. 

Recent work has involved hand mono-prints on tissue paper as starting point and impetus. Wooden boards are then built up with layers of collage, paint and drawing to create mixed media evocations of place with all the translucency and gesture inherent in printmaking. 

Utilising collage to give this new body of work the vivid gestures of her hand-monoprints, these pieces combine the best of both print and paint. 

Image: detail of Maiden Castle II, Acrylic, collage & drawing, 100 x 100cm