Projects 2012 - 2022
2020-2022
Water projects - 100 years of rain, Dam project, based at Whitlands, North-east Victoria. Exhibited in Shifting the Anthropocene with Lesley Duxbury, Stephen Wickham and Rosie Weiss Manningham Art Gallery 30 June to 29 July 2022
Water works on paper International collaborative group exhibition SG Gallery, Venice 7 to 28 October 2022
2019
Out of the Matrix 2.0 curated by Richard Harding Wilson Yeung HKOPENPRINTSHOP Hong Kong
2018
Common Garden Biblioteca Central de Cantabria curated by Wilson Yeung and Richard Harding for Impact10 Santander Spain
Murray's Garden Hill End Project to 2019
2017
edible watercolour on plaster on timber shelf for B-Side Blindside gallery Melbourne paired with Barbe Scarlette, both responding to the Fitzroy Community Garden
Common Garden cyanotype and watercolour project with a section exhibited at Sagra Gallery, Melbourne in Melbourne Printmakers, curated by Joel Gailer
2016
Common Garden nature prints for Out of the Matrix, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, curated by Richard Harding
Hill End artist studio residency at Murray's Cottage, New South Wales
Launch of The Artist Curates book, Artery and RMIT University
Artist Residency, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
2015
Weed Census Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
White Library Athenaeum Library, Melbourne, Victoria
The Artist Curates (Editor) Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne
2013
Artist as Curator Project and Spare Room galleries, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, curated by Ruth Johnstone
Paper Nights MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2012
Mining the Archive LARQ and Queenstown Mining Museum, Tasmania, curated by Raymond Arnold
Water projects - 100 years of rain, Dam project, based at Whitlands, North-east Victoria. Exhibited in Shifting the Anthropocene with Lesley Duxbury, Stephen Wickham and Rosie Weiss Manningham Art Gallery 30 June to 29 July 2022
Water works on paper International collaborative group exhibition SG Gallery, Venice 7 to 28 October 2022
2019
Out of the Matrix 2.0 curated by Richard Harding Wilson Yeung HKOPENPRINTSHOP Hong Kong
2018
Common Garden Biblioteca Central de Cantabria curated by Wilson Yeung and Richard Harding for Impact10 Santander Spain
Murray's Garden Hill End Project to 2019
2017
edible watercolour on plaster on timber shelf for B-Side Blindside gallery Melbourne paired with Barbe Scarlette, both responding to the Fitzroy Community Garden
Common Garden cyanotype and watercolour project with a section exhibited at Sagra Gallery, Melbourne in Melbourne Printmakers, curated by Joel Gailer
2016
Common Garden nature prints for Out of the Matrix, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, curated by Richard Harding
Hill End artist studio residency at Murray's Cottage, New South Wales
Launch of The Artist Curates book, Artery and RMIT University
Artist Residency, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
2015
Weed Census Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
White Library Athenaeum Library, Melbourne, Victoria
The Artist Curates (Editor) Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne
2013
Artist as Curator Project and Spare Room galleries, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, curated by Ruth Johnstone
Paper Nights MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2012
Mining the Archive LARQ and Queenstown Mining Museum, Tasmania, curated by Raymond Arnold
Ruth Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT University, Melbourne to 2018, Associate of RMIT to 2021 (honorary). She completed her PhD project Revisiting the Print Room in 2005 at RMIT University, following a Master of Arts at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1993 and earlier art studies at RMIT and Deakin University (Warrnambool).
Her artworks are represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, British Museum, London, Parliament House, Canberra, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Artbank, Sydney, Athenaeum Library, Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Hamilton Collection of the Victorian Education Department, Melbourne, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ontario College of Art and Design , Canada, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, IBM, Dublin, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.
University collections of Adelaide, Deakin, Griffith, RMIT, Melbourne and Tasmania
City collections of Banyule, Benalla, Bendigo, Cairns, Diamond Valley, Fremantle, Geelong, Hamilton, Ipswich Launceston, Mildura, Mornington, Morwell, Shepparton, Swan Hill, Tamworth, Toowoomba, Warrnambool and Whitehorse.
Photograph: Ash Pederick, Fremantle Arts Centre
