Ruth Marsh

Ruth Marsh (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist working in immersive, digital, world-building; installation and drawing based practices. They are a non-binary person of settler ancestry and are based on unceded Mi’Kmaq territory in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (also known as Halifax, Nova Scotia).They are interested in playfully queering the intersections between DIY culture and science fact/fiction/fabulation to ponder positive mutations and imagine-with bodies and environments.

Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006, their practice has spanned painting, drawing, taxidermy, video, performance, installation, stop-motion animation, virtual reality and video game development. Their work has been shown in galleries, museums and festivals within Canada and internationally including The Confederation Centre of the Arts (Charlottetown, PE), The Discovery Centre (Halifax, NS), The New Gallery (Calgary, AB), Trieste Science+Fiction Festival (Trieste, Italy), Labocine: The Science New Wave (online), and InScience International Film Festival (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

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