# Ruth Chambers > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruth_Chambers > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruth_Chambers.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Chambers > Source revision: 1337721897 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Canadian artist (born 1960)}} {{Infobox artist |name = Ruth Chambers |image = |alt = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}} |birth_place = [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Ontario](/source/Ontario) |death_date = |death_place = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |nationality = |movement = |awards = |patrons = |ethnicity = |field = Ceramicist, Installation artist, Contemporary Craft Theorist |training = Ontario College of Art Diploma Honours – Toronto 1983, University of Regina MFA 1994 |works =''FIRE+EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics'' ''Pneuma'' | website = http://ruthchambers.weebly.com/ }} '''Ruth Chambers''' (born 1960) is a Canadian installation artist, based in [Regina, Saskatchewan](/source/Regina%2C_Saskatchewan). She works with a wide range of media, and her art has incorporated everything from unfired [clay](/source/clay), ceramics and found objects to the latest in audio-visual media. ==Biography== Chambers was born in [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), and in 1983 she graduated from the [Ontario College of Art](/source/Ontario_College_of_Art) as an Associate of the Ontario College of Art.{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/feu_terre-fire_earth/Artists/Chambers/ChambersBioEn.html|title=Ruth Chambers Biography|website=www.virtualmuseum.ca|access-date=2016-03-08}} From 1983 to 1984, she worked in the Ceramics Department of the Sun Valley Centre for the Arts and Humanities in [Sun Valley, Idaho](/source/Sun_Valley%2C_Idaho). She obtained her MFA from the [University of Regina](/source/University_of_Regina) in 1994.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uregina.ca/mediaartperformance/faculty-staff/faculty/f-chambers-ruth.html|title=Ruth Chambers {{!}} Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina|website=www.uregina.ca|access-date=2016-03-12}} Chambers' work has also explored a number of themes. Some of her sculptures have depicted elements of the human body, while other works by her have combined elements of classical design (such as [Tuscan order](/source/Tuscan_order) columns) with natural imagery, such as fluttering oak leaves. Writing in 2006, Chambers said of ceramics and installation: "Ceramics is a medium traditionally associated with craft production and defined by its material qualities rather than its expressed content. Installation on the other hand, usually takes the form of a temporary environment specific in both look and meaning to its location, it employs a range of media, and the materials are often non-traditional and secondary in importance to the idea expressed."{{Cite journal|last=Chambers|first=Ruth|year=2006|title=Ceramic Installation: Towards a Definition|journal=Ceramics: Art and Perception|volume=September 2006|pages=81–87|via=EBSCO host}} Chambers' more recent installation art explores both natural and architectural themes. Recent pieces feature unfired clay objects placed in darkened space; the pieces are then activated by dramatic lighting and visual projections. According to Chambers, her contrasting style is intended to disorient the viewer, as "these installations are intended to intervene into compemporary architecture with the intent of inserting a different kind of aesthetic into spaces that are usually unornamented and designed to be quite neutral."{{cite book|last1=Alfoldy|first1=Sandra|title=The allied arts : architecture and craft in postwar Canada|date=2012|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|location=Montreal|isbn=9780773539600|page=126}} Chambers has exhibited throughout both Canada and the United States. She is a founding member of Petri’s Quadrille, a Regina-based artists’ collective (1997–2006). She has exhibited at institutions such as the [Burlington Art Centre](/source/Burlington_Art_Centre), the [Art Gallery of Nova Scotia](/source/Art_Gallery_of_Nova_Scotia), the [Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery](/source/Canadian_Clay_and_Glass_Gallery), and the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. She has also exhibited at the Gallery 1.1.1 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.{{Cite journal|year=1996|title=Chambers, Ruth. Gallery 1.1.1., Winnipeg|journal=Border Crossings|volume=15| issue = 1|pages=52–54|id={{ProQuest| }}}} In 2007, she co-authored a book with Amy Gogarty and Mireille Perron titled ''Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice'', published by the Ronsdale Press, which includes ten essays on ceramics as a socially responsible practice.{{Cite web|url=http://ronsdalepress.com/books/utopic-impulses/|title=Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice|website=Ronsdale Press|date=26 March 2009 |language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-13}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == 2007: ''Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice'' (ed. with Amy Gogarty and Mireille Perron) {{ISBN|9781553800521}} {{OCLC|124034534}} Sandra Alfoldy. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=4dUBJv6Rn_AC&dq=ruth+chambers+university+of+regina&pg=PA126 Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada.]'' McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, Mar 28, 2012. pp. 126–7. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chambers, Ruth}} Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Canadian women artists Category:21st-century Canadian women artists Category:Artists from Regina, Saskatchewan Category:Artists from Toronto Category:Canadian sculptors Category:OCAD University alumni Category:University of Regina alumni Category:Academic staff of the University of Regina --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ruth Chambers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Chambers) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Chambers?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.