Rope Making in London, 2008, Leaf Ropes
Ruth Martindale is a visual artist based on South London who graduated with an MA from Wimbledon College of art in 2008. Her work investigates our relationship to a place and to the natural world, focussing on plants, agriculture, growing, gardening, folklore, and manufacture using plants as raw materials. She is also fascinated be the history and myths surrounding individual plants and the places they grow and how we view those places. Ruth has exhibited across the UK and undertaken several residencies the most resent of which, was a drawing project called, Proposal for an Urban Farm in Stoke on Trent. This residency has led to a group of local people coming together to form a group called Stoke Town Growers to take the project further and develop various projects about growing with a long term aim of developing a community market garden.
Ruth Martindale’s work investigates our relationship with the natural world and particularly our relationship with plants, agriculture, and manufacture using plants as raw materials. She is interested in biodiversity and agriculture, including issues surrounding sustainability, the importance of plants in medicine and in feeding our growing population. Ruth is also interested in the histories and myths surrounding individual plants and the places they grow. She investigates the traditional uses of plants and there acquired history and folklore, often referring to the common or folk names of the plants and how an object made from that plant can reflect that history as well. In her work Ruth also explorers how our perception and knowledge about of a specific place, its history or images we have seen of it, affects how we experience it today, using drawing to suggest an idea or document an event that can be real, exaggerated or totally invented.
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