Ruth Jones

Lives and works in Southend-on-Sea, UK

Artist statement

Ruth Jones is a multi-disciplinary artist with a specific interest in installation, drawing and ASMR. In her practice she looks at ways of creating immersive environments that provide people with a multi-sensory experience that can take them into an imaginative world-building frame of mind. The installation space holds a shared, common ground for that imaginative enterprise to take place. Investing the audience in the process of re-imagining the world, outside of their current conditions, promotes a sense of agency, and as such can be viewed as an act of care. The receipt of care is what promotes meaningful engagement for people with the world that surrounds them. In this way, Jones thinks of care acting as a catalyst for the ability to engage with the world in a self-determined, meaningful way. The installation space holds a shared, common ground for that imaginative enterprise to take place. For art to engage its audience with the possibility of agential world re-imagining and engagement, a type of care has to have taken place. Her practice draws from her research into intersectional feminist approaches to art making. Kimberlee Crenshaw first coined the term intersectionality when referring to the specific conditions that Black women faced, that neither the civil rights movement nor the feminist movement could adequately address. Since then, the term has been embraced by many as a way of understanding intersections of privilege or oppression across race, gender, age,...

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