Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today I’m joined by painter Ruth Murray. Her paintings often place women in quiet, everyday scenes—yet beneath the familiar lies a tension. They can evoke feelings of alienation, paranoia, or the subtle weight of social expectations, while also finding a contemplative beauty in isolation and mourning. By loading these domestic or natural settings with psychological depth, Ruth gently unsettles traditional depictions of women, making space for gestures and details that shift our sense of what might otherwise seem ordinary.
Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, and her career since has been widely celebrated: she’s a past Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome, recipient of Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants, winner of the 2020 Jackson’s Painting Prize, and an elected member of both Contemporary British Painters and Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide, including UNESCO’s Creative Cities Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, and the Whitaker Museum.
She has exhibited extensively across the UK and Europe, with recent shows at the Garden Museum in London, Cambridge University’s ARB, and Manchester Art Gallery, among many others.
@ruthmurrayartist @gardenmuseum
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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