HOTPOT [art, food + people]

23.01 - 07.03.2010 St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Gallery

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft in collaboration with SAC funded trainee curator Tonia Lu bring together a group of artists who present work inspired by the emotional relationship between food and people. Artists Ruth Archibald-Swaans, Gayle Chong Kwan, Alex Frost, Alex Wilde and Rebecca Wilson take part.


Wednesday 23 December 2009

Ruth Archibald-Swaans

Ruth Archibald-Swaans, Play Please!, 2009 photo copywrite Ruth Archibald-Swaans

Ruth Archibald-Swaans

Newly graduated, Ruth continues to work on what she has been interested in - food as a vehicle for social interaction and communication. In the era of fast food and when more and more people start to calculate the confusing numbers and percentages on our food packaging, she encourages the view of eating as something that is not altogether rational and should not involve forced efficiency, but plays a more important part in our social lives.

Ruth graduated with a BA in Mixed Media Textiles from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee in 2009 and is the Designer in Residence in the College at present. As an artist and designer, Ruth works with very different materials which are only linked to textile through concept.


Play Please!
food, photographs, video; 2010

The 2 games – Domino and Chess made out of food - are a playful attempt to encourage people to spend more time eating as a social activity. Their title ‘Play Please!’ also challenges the traditional role of the gallery space by encouraging people to take part in the artwork. Photographer Ewan Bachell

Find out more in the Artist's and Photographer's website links on the right!!

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