The Samstag Alumni
The 1993 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Shane Carn |
Robert Cleworth |
Sally Cox |
Mark Hislop
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Jacqueline Hocking |
Nigel Jamieson |
Ruth McDougall |
Sally Mannall
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Ruth Marshall |
Roger Noakes
Ruth Marshall is engrossed in the process of working with steel. She loves the incisive cut of the acetylene torch and the bubbling explosion and smoke as heated metal hits water. However, the satisfaction of materials and three-dimensional form are insufficient on their own; she also wishes to employ two-dimensional images which express her deep fascination with people, and the world of dreams and ideas.
In her ambitious work Book (and acknowledging her debt to Anselm Kiefer's High Priestess), Marshall fabricates a weighty structure that, like the covers of a great and ancient book, encloses copious metal pages, old and worn. On these are writ the images of her life.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Samstag The First Millenium
| Ruth Marshall Born 1964, Kew, Victoria |
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| 1993 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, The Pratt Institute, New York, USA |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
Book 1991
welded steel and screenprint on 109 automobile panels
75 x 50 x 280 cm
© the artist
Book (detail) 1991
welded steel and screenprint on 109 automobile panels
75 x 50 x 280 cm
© the artist