On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Ruby Wallis in 2022.

Ruby Wallis often works with gendered experiences through photography, installation and moving image. She engages in a haptic way, using the close-up to simulate touch and direct experience through the lens. Her work focuses on the immediacy of an embodied approach. She twists and turns, working with fragmentation, shadows, and materiality. Her practice is becoming increasingly collaborative, operating through conversations, sound, images, and texts. She is interested in an investigation of intersectional viewpoints to disrupt a singular dominant voice and gaze.

She builds on the tension between the wild and the domestic, disorder and order, human and non-human. These ideas manifest through experimentation with psychogeography, reclaiming perilous spaces as a nocturn.In order to disrupt the smooth surface of the photograph, she experiments with early photographic processes using exposure to sunlight, analog, layering and cutting, to create slippages between conscious and unconscious modes of perception and knowing.

Ruby Wallis holds a 2015 PhD Fine Art Media – The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Selected shows

2025 

Fantasy Island, book of contemporary Irish Photography to be published by Rotten Magazine, Belfast

Between Dog and Wolf (working title), Lismore Castle Arts, A Space for Lismore (Upcoming August)

2024 

UnReal Ireland, University Gallery, Quadrangle, University Galway 

Dlúthpháirtíocht, P21 Gallery, London

(Invited but cancelled my participation to support StrikeGermany) Changing States, Photomuseum Ireland, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin 

DLR Lexicon Library Intervention - A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera, curated by Moran Been Noon

Whistling Through Nighttown (walk/event) Brigit Dublin 

A Whistling Space, Installation O' Connell Street, Brigit Dublin Festival

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