Ruth Singer-Textile Artist

As a textile artist myself, I really appreciate the work and love that goes into a piece of work. I find the work of Ruth Singer very interesting.

Ruth creates detailed and interesting textile artworks inspired by historical textiles, museum objects, personal heritage, memory and stories. She combines natural and vintage textiles with hand stitching as well as fabric manipulation techniques to create texture. Ruth’s textile practice was established in 2005. She has been commissioned by Derby Museum Service to create work based on their African collections and have work in the permanent collection of Staffordshire Museum Service, based on their Victorian photographs of women criminals.

Her more recent work incorporates photography, experimental dyeing and found objects. Many of the techniques used are developed from her study of historical textiles. She created an installation piece in collaboration with weaver Jan Garside and a collection of objects with jeweller Alys Power. Series: Monumental Folly which explores love and the sense of place associated with a particular building, won Ruth the Craft space Prize at Unit Twelve Contemporary Craft Open 2012.

Smaller pieces of framed and unframed work suitable for the home are now for sale on madebyhandonline.com

 For more details - http://ruthsinger.com

 

 

Take care Sara x