Artist talk with Anna Ruth
on “Learning by making art”
Catalysti x Art School Maa Lecture Series 2024-2025
6.02.2025 Artist talk with Anna Ruth
on “Learning by making art”
at 10–11.30 on Zoom (request link via info@taidekoulumaa.fi)
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Anna Ruth (b. 1975) has lived in Finland since 2002. Born on the east coast of Turtle Island between two moves, and raised on the west coast, in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Salish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (colonial name: Vancouver). She comes from a background of lost, displaced, refugee, settler and immigrant ancestry from north western, and south eastern Europe (?).
She attended the Emily Carr College of Art and Design (1993-1995), the Winchester School of Art(1995), graduated from the École des beaux-arts de Quimper (1995-1998) and was a resident in the postgraduate programme at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon(2003-2004).
Multiplicity is at the heart of her upbringing and has carried across into the focus of her art work today. Motivated by learning, she is curious about the different ways art is made and used to express humanity. The need for alternative perspectives pushes her to work with other artists, to see how they materialise ideas. In her process, to learn is to make and to make is to learn.
http://www.akkigalleria.com/awot
http://www.annaruth.net
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[Image description: a portrait photograph, taken outdoors of a person (Anna Ruth) dressed in abundant, dark coloured winter clothes that cover her head, forehead and lower face, exposing only a rosy cold nose and cheeks, and piercing brown eyes that look directly at the camera. The person has natural, blotchy, wrinkled, light coloured skin. There is white frost around the edges of the dark sweater and hoodie. The background of wintery white trees is out of focus.]
Image credits: Juho Jäppinen
