Ruth Spencer
After completing her MA in Fine Art in 1994 Ruth Spencer established her studio in Birmingham. She has exhibited her work throughout the UK and internationally. In recent work she is concerned with the way light transforms spaces and is making paintings, photographs and site-specific installations to explore this. In her installations she has used light shadows to undermine the spectators understanding of a space. In paintings she has explored the way light and shadows transform urban spaces. Anonymous spaces that form transitions from one area to another such as foyers, corridors and parts of shopping malls are of particular interest to the artist. New work has also included using shadows of objects found in these spaces such as shopping trolleys and barriers. For Visual Ruth led art workshops with BBC staff to create a new artwork which is on permanent display at the BBC in Birmingham.