Artist’s Statement

Ruth is a writer, geologist and psychotherapist by trainings, and independent movement practitioner based in the UK. She is interested in braiding these worlds into a new ‘geo-logic’ that explores and activates geological intimacy through sensory and metaphorical engagement with the material world and relationships built between subjects. In her established movement-based psychotherapeutic practice, which is located on semi-wooded, regenerative agricultural land in rural Derbyshire, she explores how humans heal or mature in relationship with wounded and restoring landscapes. In her writing and multidisciplinary projects she illuminates the shared zones of entanglement and complication between human and abiotic deep processes and states of being.

Ruth’s work is primarily land-based, sited, and ephemeral - created through emergent process in place. It intentionally seeks to ‘leave no trace’ as an ethic that echoes the outdoor code she grew up observing as a keen outdoors person. She often works with her own body or other bodies (human and non-human) as well as sound elements to create improvisational performances or conceptual installations that are filmed or photographed before being removed. She works in places and spaces that are biographically meaningful - most often rocky terrains - and explores intimate inter-relationality or small moments of connection in otherwise monumental landscapes, from boulder fields to active volcanoes.

Ruth’s practice centres the pursuit and exploration of deep resonance, embodied listening and writing practices paired with creative, non-intrusive gestures of movement and reflective self-enquiry to deepen our interspecies relationality beyond the species divide. This is designed to initiate and provoke new conversations and communion between our porous animal-mineral bodies. How can this can support meaning making, empathic and compassionate connection, mutual recovery, and reorient us towards a more engaged and entangled relationship with the living planet in service to tangible restoration, and deeper guardianship between and across the species divide?