Ruth Chambers
Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Ruth Chambers graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and the University of Regina (MFA). She has taught at the University of Regina since 1994. Her work is primarily ceramic based, and at times incorporates other media, usually in an installation format. Solo exhibitions include Conservatory (2010), at the Godfrey Dean Gallery, Yorkton Saskatchewan, Temporary Adornment at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario (2008), and Through the Skin at the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago (2006). She is also a contributing editor of Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice (2007), an anthology on contemporary Canadian ceramics. Recent installations have playfully and decoratively intervened into, disputed, and infected architectural structures with foliage-based porcelain ornamentation and lattice-based structures. She also assembles small compositions of fragile, improbable porcelain forms that address ideas of beauty and temporality through the tradition of the still life.
Research Interest
Ceramics, Installation, Contemporary Craft Theory
