Ruth Barker

Ruth Barker works with text, performance, and fashion. Barker has undertaken projects in Athens, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Rotterdam, Dublin, and the UK. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Newcastle University, England, for which she is composing a cycle of new performance works which retell the epic of Gilgamesh.

Selected recent exhibitions include: Hunter College’s Times Square Gallery, NY, Industrial Aesthetics (2011); Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow, The Erratics (2011); Clonlea, Dublin Portrait of Space (2011); Machon Hamayim, Givaataim, Israel, How We Can Open The Lotus, (2010); and Sils, Rotterdam, I Was Uranium.
Recent peformances have also taken place in sites including the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (as part of ‘Song As Portrait’ 2011); Segedunum Museum, Wallsend, And The Three Mothers Ask, Don’t You Know Me? (2011); Carrawburgh Mithraeum, Northumbria, To Mithras (2010); and CIAS, Newcastle, Odysseus and the Sirens (2010).
Barker was also Artist in Residence at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies (CIAS), based at Newcastle University, from March 2010 – January 2011.

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