Exhibitions & Projects
Treeline Installation view, at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2022 In conversation event with author Ben Rawlence and Dr. Stephanie Jones, University of Southampton. jhg.art/events/in-conversation-ruth-maclennan Photograph: ...
The Crown Letter is an online participatory art project, initiated by the artist Natacha Nisic at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. The project is ...
At Tintype Gallery, 2015/2016. Jordan Baseman, Helen Benigson, Sebastian Buerkner, Jem Cohen, Ruth Maclennan, Melanie Manchot, Uriel Orlow, John Smith ...
Arctic Library, installation view in Icebreaker Dreaming, Pushkin House, 2020 Selection of books, postcards, glass fishing float, and other objects ...
An ongoing public project, Reading Aloud conjures up other times and places ...
"Everyone it seems has passed through this small peninsula on the Black Sea: Cimmerians, Greeks, Scythians, Romans, Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Genoese, Turks, Khazars, Crimean Tartars, ...
Collaborative research between artists Ruth Maclennan, Robbie Synge and Emma Woffenden. We came together during the twentieth anniversary of North Lands Creative Glass to explore ...
The Archives Project ...
Exhibition curated by Ruth Maclennan and Simon Gould with the BIOS Centre for Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics ...
Films
In the deep midwinter of December 2021, artist Ruth Maclennan set out on a journey to and through the icy expanses of Arctic Russia. With ...
Treeline "Like a forest, Treeline spreads horizontally. The film has not one, but many viewpoints: those of all the different cameras and people holding them ...
The Horizons 13’55”, three-channel HD video with sound, 2021. A compilation of fourteen short films, The Horizons is made up of video clips sent to ...
Cloudberries was filmed in a small fishing village in Arctic Russia during what was then the hottest summer on record. The village has geo-political significance due ...
This film was shot on and around Orkney, Fair Isle and on the way to Shetland, from boats, the tops of cliffs, on beaches and ...
Set in an unnamed city above the Arctic circle, in the far north of Russia, a film-maker-narrator retraces her journey there. She tells of her ...
Zigni focuses on an Eritrean restaurant on Essex Road, the creation of its cook, Haile, author of the first Eritrean cookbook ...
follows people’s relationships with the sea, and the changes associated with climate change and the geo-political shift northward. ...
A pilot crashes in the steppes of Crimea in 1944. Tartar tribesmen rescue and care for him. The artist Joseph Beuys ascribes this event to ...
Odesa (formerly Odessa) was built by Italians for Catherine the Great, a major seaport on the Black Sea and formerly headquarters of the Imperial Russian ...
Anarcadia is shot among the desert expanses of Kazakhstan. Into this shifting, elemental landscape, Maclennan introduces two iconic characters: an archaeologist and a geological surveyor ...
Three Short Films on Hawks and Men was filmed in Northumberland, a particularly wild part of England, near the border with Scotland ...
Capital is a subjective series of stark encounters and trancelike wanderings through a city under construction. The camera acts as an invisible protagonist drifting through ...
A two-channel video projection ...
Valley of Castles (Hunting Eagles) follows the artist’s journey to the village of Nura in South-eastern Kazakhstan to film traditional Kazakh eagle hunters ...
A series of five films made between 1999 and 2010 ...
A two channel video projection by Ruth Maclennan and Uriel Orlow. Filmed at the National Archives, commissioned by the National Archives and the School of ...
Get Lost with Nicholas Noyesvideo, 11 minutes, 2002-5script by Nicholas Noyes First exhibited in Progme: film festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005 ...
We Saw It–Like a Flash shows how television and genetics developed and together helped shape popular understandings of science over fifty years. It charts the ...
Photography
Clay Works, Chupa, March 2014 Photograph, C type print, archival paper, 2019600 mm x 420 mm Frozen Sea, Chupa, 2014Photograph, C type print, archival paper, ...
"I took these photographs in the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctica, Saint Petersburg, a place I have returned to again and again, fascinated by ...
"I travelled to the Arctic again, this time to the north Kola Peninsula, together with an anthropologist from the European University, Saint Petersburg. I wanted ...
"In 2013 and 2014, I travelled along the White Sea coast near the Arctic circle, to see how people from all walks of life were ...
"Everyone it seems has passed through this small peninsula on the Black Sea: Cimmerians, Greeks, Scythians, Romans, Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Genoese, Turks, Khazars, Crimean Tartars, ...
"After Life, casts a forensic gaze on a liquid surface. Both scale and subject are elusive ...
"I travelled in Kazakhstan between 2006 and 2010, where I made many friends, and several bodies of work: among them the Anarcadia series of photographs" ...
Performances
Annihilation of Caste – an undelivered speech by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1936) Reading Aloud performance in collaboration with Jogesh Barve, for the exhibition Ideas ...