Ruth Helen Smith British, b. 1994

Education:

2012-2016 – MA and BA in Art History – The Courtauld Institute of Art

2016-2018 – Diploma in Figurative Painting – The Heatherley School of Fine Art

 

Organisations Founded:

Red Mud Arts – co-founding director – 2022-present

Residency Programme – coordinator – 2020-present

Ruth Smith Gallery – founding director – 2018-present

 

Publications, Lectures and Teaching:

Arts in Society Conference – 2023 

Art Historical London – 2020-2021 

AB2020 Conference – 2020 

En Plein Air Classes – 2020-present

Immediations – 2019 

 

Awards, Scholarships and Bursaries:

Devon Open Studios – Winner of the Emerging Artist Bursary

Heatherley School of Fine Art – Yearly Award and the Worlds End Studio Prize

The Courtauld – HEFCE Postgraduate Award, and the Joseph and Esther Lichenstein Scholarship and the Oswald Savage Bursary.

Winchester Art History Group – 2015-2016 and 2012-2015 Bursaries

 

Residencies:

Battersea Power Station, Phase 3

CWND Artist Residency, Canary Warf

Continuum Residency, Husk, Limehouse

Lillie Square, Keltbray

 

Exhibitions Include:

Ruth Borchard, Piano Nobile, London

Mall Galleries, London

Art Pavilion, Mile End, London

Green Hill, Moretonhampstead

Poltimore House, Exeter

Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

Limekiln Gallery, Calstock