RUTH HARTLEY - PAINTERBA (Art), PGCE (Art and Design), Diploma for Artists in Schools, City and Guilds Certificate Stage One Further Education, MA Women’s Studies (Video Dissertation). ‘Art is the ritual rearrangement of dirt both physical and psychic to ameliorate death’Group Exhibitions in England ‘Cambridge Open’ Open Space Gallery, CRC 2001 ‘Figures’ Stroud House Gallery 2001 Suisho Gallery July 2000 ‘It’s your Turn’ Kettle’s Yard July 2000 Suisho Millenium Exhibition Dec 1999- Jan 2000 Peterborough Museum October 1999 Peterborough Arthouse April 1999 C Group Exhibitions 1995,1996,1997 West Road Exhibition 1996 Abstract Expressions ‘Artspace’ Ely 1996 Group Exhibitions in Zambia Lechwe Trust Collection Exhibition National Gallery Lusaka 2005 Mbile International Artists Workshops 1993,1994 National Art Exhibitions 1984, 1976 Zambia National Women Artists’ Exhibition 1994 Artists against Apartheid Mpapa Gallery 1987 Solo Exhibitions ‘The True History of my Past’ 31 Castle Lane Bedford 2006 ‘RaItz’ Leper Chapel, Cambridge 2005’ ‘In Memory’ Cambridge Arts Picture House 2004 Mpapa Gallery’Lusaka 1995, 1980 Cambridge Open Studios 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001,2000, 1999, 1998, 1997,1996 Artist’s Network Bedfordshire September Artists’ Trail POG Crafts Harrowden Lane Bedford 2006 Collections Zambia National Art Collection Lechwe Trust Collection