Introducing Manchester based artist Ruth Murray who is the 2024 recipient of the Barossa Regional Gallery’s Barossa Women’s Artist Residency.

Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 and was the Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome. Her notable exhibitions include Northern Stars at the A Foundation, Saatchi’s 4 New Sensations, The Creative Cities Collection at the Barbican and the BP Portrait Award.

She was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields grant in 2021 and 2024, she won the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2020, and she was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2019 (subsequently elected as a member in 2023).

Her work is in private and public collections worldwide, including UNESCO’s Creative Cities Collection, the Whitaker Museum and Manchester Art Gallery.

The Artist Talk will be a chance to hear how Ruth has developed and maintained her art practice throughout the years as a working artist.

Read more about Ruth Murray and the Barossa Women’s Artist Residency, click here.

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Ruth Murray, Geraniums (detail), oil on canvas, 150cm x 190cm

> Image courtesy of the artist: Ruth Murray, Geraniums, oil on canvas, 150cm x 190cm