Ruth Murray
(28 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
Royal College of Art
The central theme of my work is adolescence. I feel empathy with my subject, but as I drift in flux between mourning innocence and aspiring for womanhood, my perspective is becoming more removed. I sometimes notice fleeting moments of seemingly unearthly qualities in my subjects, this is a curious magical power. I enjoy infusing the familiar with eeriness, sometimes using domestic spaces or nostalgic triggers associated with an idealized, utopian childhood state. Stories and mysticism also interest me. By drawing from these I create a zone somewhere between the real and the imagined. I want a viewer to question their perception of reality before my paintings.
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Work of art I would like to make
Adolescence is an intense force that I find both fascinating and entertaining. It's transient nature means it is full of contradictions. I am particularly intrigued by the juxtaposition of confidence and vulnerability and how this uneasy mix plays out in my paintings. By using confrontational unspoiled women, I hope to seduce the viewer with simple youth and insidious beauty, but also leave a residue of bewilderment by hinting at darker, more alien passions that dwell in adolescence.
Recently my works have been exploring the notion that adolescents are undefined by life’s pressures; they still possess unlimited optimism for who they could be in the world. In my paintings I have been exploring the ‘marshmallow’ factor of adolescence they are still malleable, impressionable. The work I propose to make if chosen would relate to the unlimited potential of the subjects of my paintings, who although absorbed in their self- centred secret worlds of desire, will be ruling the world in 25 years. By then they will have been moulded, no longer transient half beings; they will be sculpted and defined by life’s pressures.
I envisage my painting of a girl constrained by a large coil around her neck; a cycloptic marshmallow, as she tries with futility to eat her way to freedom. The marshmallow although soft and harmless is suffocating and sickly sweet. The pressures of life are caving in.
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My Artworks (6)
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