Ruth Frost

Biography

Ruth lectured in the Photomedia Workshop at the Canberra School of Art between 1989 and 1995, before returning to Tasmania in 1996. She has exhibited widely in Australia with recent solo projects including Place of Residence, Carnegie Gallery (2011), Oak Lodge, as part of Trust, a commissioned projected for Ten Days on the Island (2009) and Child, The Port Arthur Project, Tasmania, (2007).  Her work has been represented in numerous group exhibitions including Theatre of the World, Mona (2013). Ruth Frost was a recipient of a New Media Board Grant, 2003 and New Work Grant, 2009 both from the Australia Council. Her work is held in the collections of the Devonport Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Port Arthur Historic Site and the National Trust (Tasmania).

Research Interest

Ruth's research aligns to the University's research theme of Creativity, Culture and Society and is part of a larger discourse within contemporary artistic practice that seeks to provoke discussion and engagement with place. Ruth explores the capacity of the photograph to interpret place in ways that allude to an ephemeral human presence and emphasise the effect of time. Key areas of focus include investigation into the use of fragmentation as a narrative device and the potential of the photograph to act as poetic metaphor for hidden memories of place.