Ruth Speer (b. 1996, England) is a German-American artist working across painting and sculpture. She splits her time between London, UK and Oregon, U.S.A. Speer thinks of her work as a series of personal folktales, a combination of odd utility, scene selections and allegories of something true. She paints on wood for its surface, history, sense of usefulness beyond the work and nearness to domesticity, and often build wooden structures to house my paintings as a continuation of the interior life she grew up with, homeschooled with her sisters in rural areas on both sides of the States. The imagery of mythology and visual language of Western painting history reflects this experience, being the textbooks she consumed most fervently as a child, and which she now uses to communicate in her work.

 

Solo exhibition include (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, US (2025). 

Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Richard Saltoun London, UK (2025); (Upcoming) Chilli Arts Projects, London, UK , (2025); Visions, Gallery Rosenfeld, London, UK (2025); All About Eve, Kristin Hjellegjerde