RUBY REDING 
Rotterdam


I am an artist and researcher, working with sculpture, moving image, archives and participatory workshops. My work asks how we can attune differently to our experiences of agency and proximity under colonial and ecological degradation. I consider image-making as a site of possible intimacy, and try to offer counter forms of value to the way material is treated in mining and commodity circulation under late capitalism.

My research instigates sensory and submerged fieldwork methods at sites of environmental violence and scientific apparatus, such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories. Through different cameras in filmmaking and metals or textile in sculpture, I explore what kinds of gathering and gaze might repair our relationship to materials and each other.

My recent project on aluminium and bauxite asks why we are drawn to shiny materials, and the evolution of ‘lustre’, the light of minerals in geology, as emerging from white people’s draw to weightlessness, domination and control.

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. I have programmed exhibitions on energy infrastructure such as ‘shadow circuits’, at MaMA in Rotterdam.



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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 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
2021 SÎM Gallery (group), Reykjavik, IS

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

Writing/Radio

2022 ‘The Offering’ (poem published in the 87 Press)
2021 ‘12 months of memory factories’, artist writing published in DreamsTimeFree, a publication produced by TACO!, London

2021 ‘On Busyness’, printed artist book

2021 ‘Time Disaster’, sound work broadcast on NTS Radio, 30 November, 1pm, 60. mins.
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

2025 Scottish Sculpture Workshop Group Residency, UK
Energy Literacy for a Just Transition with Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Luckenwalde, DE 
2022 3 months at Snehta residency in Athens, Greece 

2020 3 months at SÎM, Reykjavik, Iceland

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

Grants/Scholarships

Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship (2023–2025)
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant (2022) 

Erasmus+ Grant (2018)
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