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Ruth has been on a creative journey ever since she can remember,
although freely admits life and its commitments has distracted her at times.
Thankfully, partway through her teaching degree, Ruth discovered her passion
for sculpture. Her first sculpture, created as part of a simple course
requirement, resulted in her achieving a string of commissions from the then
Dean of Education as well as other Faculty staff. Her sculptural work has
sold both locally and internationally. In 1999 Ruth teamed up with her
husband and created a collection known as the Animolympics, they successfully
exhibited this at the Timber and Working with Wood Show in 1999.
After completing her teaching degree, Ruth found herself working
in a local primary school. It
did not take long before the students recognized her talent as an artist and
art teacher and begged her to teach them privately. In 1999, After School Art Classes was
born. As word spread the
business grew with great momentum, and evolved into an art school and
gallery, becoming Darru Art Studio.
Ruth has concentrated on developing and refining her own
artistic skills and now enjoys the immediacy and spontaneity of
painting. Her work,
predominantly realistic, incorporates exaggeration of colour or texture to
lend it a contemporary edge. She utilises a multitude of creative processes
to bring out the natural beauty in a broad subject field. Ruth gains
inspiration from the natural world and enjoys recreating her visions to
enable people to take time to reconnect with the intrinsic beauty within the
natural environment.
Ruth moved with her family to the Mid North Coast in 2005, with
visions of a lifestyle off the treadmill and days full of painting, but her
passion for teaching saw her fall in love with the Steiner Curriculum and a
fulltime teaching position at a local Steiner school.
Ruth is passionate about her own and others’ creativity and
enjoys the process of taking a blank canvas together with paint and other
media to bring her vision and passion to a reality that she can share with
others.
Education
2005 Certificate IV in Applied Colour and Design
School of Colour and Design
2005 Art at the
Rocks
School of Colour and Design
2004/5 Certificate III in Applied Colour and Design
School of Colour and Design
2003 Women in
Business Regional Program
TAFE NSW – Illawarra Institute
1998 Bachelor of
Education (Honours) Class I
University of Wollongong
1997 Bachelor of Teaching
University of Wollongong
Exhibitions
2006 Coffs Harbour Lilli Pilli Exhibition
2006 Bellingen Art Prize
2004 Thirroul Seaside Art Festival
2004 Centacare Art Exhibition
2004 Edmond Rice
College Art & Craft Fair
2003/5 Darru
Art Studio
2002 Edmond Rice
College Art & Craft Fair
1999-2001 Australian Woodworking Gallery - Mogo
2000 Timber Working
With Wood Show - Sydney
1999 Timber Working
With Wood Show - Sydney
1997 Timber Working
With Wood Show – Sydney
1997 University of
Wollongong – Faculty of Education
Awards
2005 Highly
Commended Award Designer Rugs – shortlisted - SCDA
2005 HighlyCommended Award in Creativity, Colour and Design - SCDA
2000 2nd
Prize The Sydney Woodcarving Group
Timber and Working With Wood Show
1997 1st
Prize The Sydney Woodcarving Group –
Timber and Working With Wood Show
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