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RUTH HARTLEY - PAINTER

BA (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