CV
Qualification
BA First Class Honours Ceramics and Sculpture
University of Wolverhampton 2003
Strengths/Skills
Successful Designer/Maker business as Ruth Gibson Ceramics. Exhibiting on a National level at Ceramic Shows and events. Supplying Galleries and gift shops.
Completion of successful public art commissions working in brick and ceramics.
Project Management and lead artist of ‘Benchart’ a Community and Public Art Project involving commissioning new public artworks, bus shelters and benches, organising and delivering a wide range of arts workshops, lectures and presentations. Arts Council Funded
Developed a strong working relationship with the brick industry and receive regular support, technical advice and sponsorship from Ibstock and Blockleys Brick.
Involved in various community arts projects, from organisation and fundraising to delivering ceramic, clay, eco-art and art and health workshops.
Key role in instigating, developing and project management of Cloud Gallery
Recent Exhibitions:
2020 Bevere Gallery, Worcestershire
2019 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
2019 'Maping Llyn' Solo show at Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Llanbedrog, Wales. 27 Jan - 17th March 2019
2018 'Under the Canopy' Artichoke Gallery, Ticehurst, Kent 31st March - 30th June
2018 'A Sense of Place' North Wales Potters, Craft in the Bay; Makers Guild Wales. Cardiff
2017 Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Llanbedrog Selected exhibition of NWP and SWP
2017 Art in Clay, Hatfield House
2017 Aberystwyth International Ceramics Festival
2017 Heritage and Diversity, International Ceramic exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Shrewsbury Winter Festival
2016 Art in Clay Hatfield House and Farnham
2016 Earth and Fire Rufford Abbey Notts
2016 The Hurst Arvon Centre Shropshire
2016 Sea Pictures Gallery, Clare, Suffolk
2016 Court Barn Gallery Chipping Campden 'Summer Delights Exhibition'
2016 Erwood Staion Gallery, Builth Wells, Powys
2015 Yorkshire Sculpture Park Gallery Shop
2015 Earth and Fire Rufford Country Park
2015 International Ceramic Festival Aberystwyth
2014 The Old Chapel Gallery Pembridge Herefordshire
2014 'MAKE' The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey
2014 RHS Garden Festival Malvern with the Wocestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen
2013 Twenty Twenty - 'Coast'
2013 Ludlow Open
2013 International Ceramic Festival Aberystwyth
2013 Flaxmill Shropshire
2013 Ceramic Festival Cockington Court Devon
2013 Print International Oriel Wrexham and on tour
2012 Wedgwood Museum 'Artisan at Wedgwood' Stoke-on-Trent
2003/5 The Sculpture Shows – Cotswolds, Cheshire
2003 Art in Clay, Hatfield,
2003 New Designers
2003 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham Selected Exhibition
Residencies, Commissions, Teaching:
2017 Moreton Hall Independent School - Introduction to print making on clay A level and GSCE art students
2017 Abraham Derby Academy, Madeley. Delivered clay tile workshops. Installation at the main entrance to the school.
2017 Meres and Mosses Brick and Tile Project - created sculptural bench inlaid with tiles, Jubilee Park, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Workshops in schools and at Community events. Over 150 people involved.
2017 Impressions of the Past Project - Commission to create Oak and Ceramic Sculpture and deliver ceramics and poetry workshops to community groups, and schools, in indoor and outdoor settings.
2016 Delivered Ceramic Workshops at the International School "Ecole Jeannine Manuel' Lille, France
2016 Jackfield Tile Project Creating sculptural art work and a river of tiles with the community and schools
2016/15 Visiting Lecturer University of Wolverhampton
2015 Wayfaring ...a Walking Art Adventure, Stiperstones, Shropshire. Collaboration with 'Sticks and Stuff'
2014 Priory School Workshops and Ceramic Panels installed in the school
2013 Wakeman 'Look Up' Trail – ceramic installations throughout Shrewsbury
2012 Resident artist for AONB Upland Farming Project, clay and story telling in South Shropshire Schools
2011 Visiting Lecturer Wolverhampton University teaching ceramics to Applied Art undergraduates
2011 Commission to build Earth Oven Onny Meadows Art Walk and deliver eco-art workshops
2011 Commission Sparclife Project - sculptural seating and ceramic workshops with community
2010 Completion of Benchart - built a second bus shelter, benches and public artworks
2010 Bilston PCT Art Project cessation of smoking during pregnancy. Workshops and Exhibition
2010 Art and Clay workshops for Impact Residential Project, Birmingham
2010 Shropshire Council Social Services Well Being Days' Healing and relaxation through art workshops
2009 The Drum Birmingham Delivered Art workshops 'Saying and Healing' through Art as part of commit, Act, Demand an end to Violence against Women.
2008/9 Visiting Lecturer Telford College of Art and Technology and SCAT, to give presentations and deliver workshops in professional practice modules
2008/9 Castle Pools Sculpture Project, Dawley funded by Telford Culture Zone Benchart
2007/8 Ellesmere Gateway Sculpture Commission for British Waterways. Benchart 3 brick sculptures.
2006 Shropshire Wildlife Trust/ Welcome Break M54 Services Commission Benchart
2005 Created 'The King's Table' for All the Kings Men Sculpture Trail, Harlescott Shrewsbury
2002-4 A4E Art Trail Commissions, Shrewsbury. 'Mnemosyne' gifted to Shropshire Council.
2002/3 Artist in Residence Whitehall Mansion Project, Shrewsbury
1992,94,99 Stage set design Richmond Theatre for Richmond Leap into Dance Festival.
1988 - 2003 Successful designer/maker business
Awards and Prizes:
2013 Won 2nd Prize in the Shropshire Open with 'The Setting' - ceramic wall panel
2005 Arts Council England - Awarded Project Management and lead artist of Benchart
2004 Arts Council England - Awarded funding to take part in A4E Environmental Art Trail
2003 University of Wolverhampton - Won The Potclay Award for Outstanding Work in Clay
2002/3 Open 02’ The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery - Won the Moorcroft Prize for Ceramics
1997 Won the Materials Prize in the Shropshire Open
Publications:
• Brickworks by Gwen Heeney, Published A&C Black 2003
• Investigations into Fire by David Jones, Published The Crowood Press 2007
• Flaxmill Photography Book 2014
