RUBY REDING 
Rotterdam

I’m an artist, researcher and curator, working with sculpture and moving image to figure our disconnection from resource supply chains and each other. I draw on the elemental and rhythmic to attune differently to our experiences of agency, proximity and metabolism under colonial and ecological degradation, pollution and late capitalism.

My research instigates fieldwork to sites of environmetental violence and sensing apparatus, such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories. I collect scrap materials and visit archives, asking how these methodologies can offer forms of material intimacy and solidarities.

I have facilitated workshops in Rotterdam and London at Turf Projects including collaborative filmmaking in the field, river ecologies and poetics. From 2023–2024, I was Researcher in the Fine Art department at Goldsmiths, University of London.


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RUBY REDING
Rotterdam

I work with sculpture, poetry and moving image to feel out our disconnection from resource supply chains, sites of infrastructure and each other. I draw on the elemental and rhythmic to attune differently to our experiences of agency, proximity and metabolism under late capitalism.

My research instigates fieldwork to sites of environmetental violence, sensing apparatus and infrastructure, such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories. I collect scrap materials and visit archives, asking how these methodologies can offer slanted knowledges and forms of material intimacy.




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Exhibitions

2025 Sweetscope, Language(s) (group), Garage Rotterdam, NL
2025 MFA Piet Zwart Graduation Exhibition, TENT Rotterdam, NL 
2024 what flows between us (duo with Maia Liu), Sparewheel, Brussels BE
       Heating Systems (group), A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
         In every cacophony there is a harmony (group), Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2023 feeling/folding the tributary, public billboard commission, Turf Projects, Croydon, UK
2023 P.S. Tracker (solo), Turf Projects, Croydon, UK 

2022 desire lines (group), Snehta Project Space, Athens, GR

Conditions Studio Programme (group), Croydon, UK

Screenings/Performance
2024 ‘The Dragon Walk’ at ICA, London, UK
2023 ‘The Dragon Walk’ at Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2023 ‘night watch’ performance at San Mei Gallery, London, UK
2023 ‘night watch’ performance at hARTslane, London UK
2022 ‘Poetic Terrain’, performance and screening, Victoria Project Space, Athens, GR

Publications/Talks
2025 ‘soft/shadow metallurgies’ research talk on critical raw materials with Jeff Diamanti for OBSESSED! Jewelry festival at If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam NL
2024  ‘all this distance’ artistic research interview in Tique Magazine, 2024
2022  Poem published in ‘Digital Poetics 3.10: Voice, Poetry & Really Being Alive / Enclosures’, 87 Press
Poem published in printed zine ‘The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, VOL. 2
2021 ‘12 months of memory factories’, artist writing published in DreamsTimeFree, a publication produced by TACO!, London
2020 ‘I lie as a spoon lies: in the dark’ and ‘Excerpt from “The pool of depth and dirt’, in Word/For Word, Poetry Journal, Summer issue.
2019 ‘Three Poems’ in tearsinthefence poetry journal, No. 70.

Residencies

2026 Est Nord Est, Quebec, CA (Upcoming)
2025 Scottish Sculpture Workshop Group Residency, UK
2025 Energy Literacy for a Just Transition with Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Luckenwalde, DE 
2022 3 months at Snehta residency in Athens, Greece funded by Arts Council England

Education
2023 – 2025: Fine Art MFA, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2021 – 2022: Conditions Alternative Studio Programme, Croydon, UK
2020 – 2021: Visual Cultures MA, Goldsmiths University, UK
2015 – 2018: English Literature BA, Cambridge University, UK

Grants/Scholarships

Amarte Fonds (2025-2026)
CBK Rotterdam (2025)
Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship (2023–2025)
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant (2022) 

Goldsmiths Excellence Fee Waiver (2020)
Erasmus+ Grant (2018)


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