Towards the end of the first lockdown I started making work with what was to hand.

Foil:

a thwarting

a person or thing that sets off or enhances another by contrast

metal in the form of very thin sheets

Pressure applied to matter, squeezed flat, pushed sideways, spread out. 

Microns away from nothing. 

Aluminium. The most abundant metallic element. Infinitely recyclable. Unnatural in its purest form. Impermeable to light, odour and contamination.

Fragments. Armour. Feathers. Blankets. Rocks. Covers. Shawls. 

Fugitive surfaces. Organising time into light. 

Ruth Claxton (born 1971, Ipswich) lives and works in Birmingham.  

She hasn’t made an exhibition for a little while because she has been busy being Artist Maker at Eastside Projects and setting up STEAMhouse in Birmingham. In the past she has shown work at Ikon Gallery, Site Santa Fe, Spike Island, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Towner Eastbourne, Whitechapel Gallery, the Guangzhou Triennial and made public artworks for Situations and Meadow Arts. She has work in the Arts Council Collection, and in 2012 she won the Arts Foundation’s Yoma Sasburg Sculpture Fellowship.