Ruth Ewan

‘It’s Not Too Late to Change’, 2021
perpetual calendar, wood and adonised aluminium boards
110 x 220 cm
‘How Many Flowers Make the Spring?’, 2021
installation view, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
‘Silent Agitator’, 2019
working clock based upon an early 20th century ‘stickerette’ (or ‘silent agitator’) distributed in workplaces across the U.S. by members of the Industrial Workers of the World labour union.
Installation view Sculpture in the City, Bishopsgate, London
‘Silent Agitator’, 2019
working clock based upon an early 20th century ‘stickerette’ (or ‘silent agitator’) distributed in workplaces across the U.S. by members of the Industrial Workers of the World labour union.
Installation view Highline, New York
‘Asking Out’, 2019
recreation of Muriel Pyrah’s experimental, art school class from the 1960s.
installation view Yorkshire Sculpture Park
‘A Feminist Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World’, 2018
CD Jukebox containing 600 songs with a Feminist agenda
78 x 70 x 27 cm
‘Back to the Fields’, 2015/19
Installation demonstrating the French Revolutionary, Republican Calendar
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
‘Back to the Fields’, 2015/16
Installation demonstrating the French Revolutionary, Republican Calendar
‘Incerteza Viva’; 32nd Bienal de Sao Paulo
‘The Peoples’ Instruments’, 2012
installation view Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
‘Liberties of the Savoy’, 2012
re-ennactment of the sacking of the Savoy Palace during the Peasant’s Revolt involving school children from east London on route to the Lancaster Ballroom of the Savoy hotel. Commissioned by Frieze Projects East and Create for 2012
‘There is no up or down (blue)’, 2012
gouache on board
59.5 x 84 cm
‘We could have been everything that we wanted to be (red version)’, 2011
metric clock utilising the French Revolutionary time system.
100 x 30 cm
‘Apotheosis (Paul)’, 2011
plaster effigy of Antonio Salemme’s ‘Negro Spiritual’, 1924 (lifesize neo-classical nude portrait of Paul Robeson) believed to have been destroyed in 1945
‘A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World’, 2003 – ongoing
Rowe CD jukebox containing a collection of more than 2,000 songs, varying in origin, with political or idealist motives. Installation view,‘Younger than Jesus’, The New Museum, New York, 2009