Ruth Spaak
Working with kiln-formed glass and a diverse range of materials including recycled, collected and industrial plastics, metals and other mixed-media, Ruth Spaak creates unique and bespoke screens, space dividers, wall-based pieces, installations and sculptures for interiors or exteriors which explore texture, opacity, colour and pattern. Small components are joined together and layered to create complex constructions using contrasting materials, tactile qualities and shapes for site-specific situations and functions. Ruth produces work to commission, for private, public, educational and corporate clients; exhibiting, leading talks and collaborating with organisations and groups to assist in the designing and making of permanent artworks. The pieces she creates define, divide and enhance spaces and they harness natural and artificial light to create dramatic or subtle effects using colour, texture, structure and the inherent qualities of the materials. For Visual at Ernst & Young Ruth created new work for their board room, led workshops for staff to make an artwork which is on permanent display in the main entrance and led workshops with young people in a sponsored school. She has exhibited her work throughout the UK.