Ruby Wallis

In our undergrad group show, I displayed this cyanotype triptych titled “Contemplating Water”. This piece was originally for my “Walking as an Art Practice” class, where we learned that walking and wandering can be research methods in creating art. This piece was based off a walk I had to the pier in town where I sat at the edge and stared at the wind as it blew across the surface of the water. I thought it was quite beautiful and the more I watched it the more I came up with stories in my head. So I wrote a poem about it, created an illustrated border, and experimented with the water heavy technique of cyanotype to create this piece. You can scroll to see my cyanotype negative, original graphite drawing, original poem ideation, and a video of the wind.

Plus que quelques jours pour découvrir le @festival_circulations et son focus irlandais ! Rendez-vous au @104paris pour notamment voir le travail des quatre photographes irlandais présentés : Ruby Wallis, Ellen Blair, Clodagh O'Leary et Donal Talbot. Jusqu'au 17 mai, du mercredi au dimanche, de 14h à 19h. #irishphotography #festivalcirculations @collectif.fetart @rubywallis_com @ellenblairphoto @1eurofiddy @donal.talbot @cultureireland #centreculturelirlandais (image 2 : @quentin_che )

Faltam menos de 2 semanas para o fim da 16ª edição do Festival Circulations (e a minha primeira como membra da DA ✨). Num momento em que fazer cultura é cada vez mais desafiador, é emocionante ver tanta gente reunida, especialmente tantas mulheres, dispostas a tensionar os limites da arte contemporânea, dialogar com o presente e provocar novos olhares. Muito feliz por fazer parte dessa coletividade potente que insiste, acredita e luta 💥 Vem ver de perto os 24 trabalhos apresentados no @104paris até 17.05 📸 @marie_frogerpic @rafael.roncato / @festival_circulations @collectif.fetart @bigtime.studio @amelie_smsn @oliakoval.ua @carolinebenichou @realcarinedolekestformidable — Il reste moins de deux semaines avant la fin de la 16e édition du Festival Circulations (et ma première en tant que membre de la DA ✨). À un moment où faire de la culture devient de plus en plus difficile, c’est émouvant de voir autant de personnes réunies, en particulier autant de femmes, prêtes à repousser les limites de l’art contemporain, à dialoguer avec le présent et à susciter de nouveaux regards. Très heureuse de faire partie de cette collectivité puissante qui persiste, croit et lutte 💥 Venez découvrir de près les 26 artistes présenté.e.s au @104paris jusqu’au 17.05 —Less than two weeks until the end of the 16th edition of the Circulations Festival (and my first as a member of the DA ✨). At a time when creating culture is becoming increasingly challenging, it’s moving to see so many people gathered, especially so many women, willing to push the boundaries of contemporary art, engage with the present, and spark new perspectives. Very happy to be part of this powerful collective that persists, believes, and fights 💥 Come and see up close the 24 works until 17.05 @104paris

Last weekend’s opening of (UN)EARTHED: through air, tied to each other. Across installation, print, sculpture, and moving image, the exhibition traces entanglement in a world that refuses stillness. Part of Burren College of Art’s end-of-year exhibitions, with work unfolding across the gallery, studios, and Barn. Thank you to everyone who came through, stayed, listened, and looked closely. On view in the Main Gallery through April 24. Photographs by @drlisanewman #BurrenCollegeOfArt #MFAExhibition #ContemporaryArtIreland #ArtAndEcology #EmergingArtists

Leaving Ireland tomorrow🥹

So grateful to everyone who was able to make it out to the opening night of our final MFA exhibition 🌱 It's going to be up till the 24th for anyone who is able to come out to the Burren. 🏄‍♂️ - - So grateful to the incredible @rubywallis_com , @ainephilips , @conor_mcgrady , and @ehutton for crucial last-minute installation advice. @aideenbarry for your recommendations on moss and curation, @drlisanewman for the photos and everything, @oakeyepress and @karenstpierre.studio , thank you for being lovely show partners and generally a blast to work with this whole year, and lastly @planetretrovintage for the hot pink fit.💄

Engage Art Studios is delighted to be participating in SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair this year! It will be our first time participating and we are really looking forward to meeting other artist run studios and galleries from around the world. We will present work by Engage members Cecilia Danell, Sara K Dunn, Joan Sugrue, and Ruby Wallis. Watch this space for more information 🤩 With thanks to Culture Ireland for supporting us on this trip, and of course the Arts Council and Galway City Council for their ongoing support. @ccdanell @hauntingghostaesthetic @joansugrue @rubywallis_com @cultureireland @artscouncilireland @artsofficegalwaycity @galwaycitycouncil @supermarketart

✨ Chaque année, le festival consacre une salle à un territoire spécifique, choisi parce qu’il est encore peu représenté dans la programmation. Cette année, le festival se tourne vers l’Irlande, envisagée non pas seulement comme un pays, mais comme une île dans son ensemble. Le travail d’Ellen Blair, Dónal Talbot, Clodagh O’Leary et Ruby Wallis permet de dépasser les frontières politiques et d’interroger l’insularité, le sentiment d’appartenance et la pluralité des identités, des thématiques chères à Circulation(s). Pour en savoir plus sur leur travail, découvrez « Rencontre(s) », une série d’interviews vidéos déjà disponibles sur ce compte Instagram, à visionner avant ou après votre visite ! 🗓️ Les expositions sont ouvertes du mercredi au dimanche de 14h à 19h, jusqu’au 17 mai. 📍CENTQUATRE-PARIS 🔗 Rendez-vous dans le lien en bio pour plus d’informations pratiques ! Avec le soutien du Centre Culturel Irlandais à Paris @centreculturelirlandais - ✨ Every year, the festival dedicates a room to a specific region, chosen because it is still under-represented in the programme. This year, the festival turns its attention to Ireland, viewed not only as a country, but as an island in its entirety. The work of Ellen Blair, Dónal Talbot, Clodagh O’Leary and Ruby Wallis allows to transcend political borders and explore insularity, a sense of belonging and the plurality of identities: themes dear to Circulation(s). To find out more about their work, check out “Rencontre(s)”, a series of video interviews already available on this Instagram account, to watch before or after your visit! 🗓️ The exhibitions are open from Wednesday to Sunday, 2 pm to 7 pm, until 17 May. 📍CENTQUATRE-PARIS 🔗 Check out the link in bio for more practical information! With the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

Looking back at the opening of Circulation(s) Festival at Centquatre-Paris ✨ @festival_circulations @104paris Starting with a few glimpses of the process — an incredible experience from the very beginning. Receiving over 1000 applications from across Europe and having the chance to dive firsthand into contemporary European photography all at once. What questions run through these works? How is photography evolving today? Without a fixed theme, the selection embraces diversity — in subjects, approaches, countries, and identities. This year, we were a team of 7 women curators plus the production director, shaping a final selection of 24 projects by 26 artists. And after the selection… so many steps. Imagining each artist’s scenography in dialogue with each one of them, building the overall exhibition design with the studio Bigtime @bigtime.studio , deciding how each work speaks to the others. And finally, the installation itself: 3 intense weeks of hard work alongside an incredible, mostly female volunteer team and lighting crew. We paint, pierce, glue, nail… A truly collective effort from start to finish — grounded in collaboration, care, and solidarity 💫

✨ Rencontre(s) avec Ruby Wallis Tout au long du festival, découvrez les 24 projets présentés cette année à Circulation(s) à travers la voix des artistes. L’occasion de découvrir plus en détail leurs univers et d’en apprendre plus sur leurs oeuvres et leurs démarches. Depuis 2019, le festival met à l’honneur dans le cadre de son focus une scène photographique européenne émergente particulière. Pour cette 16e édition, l’invitation est donnée à l’Irlande avec la présentation des séries de quatre artistes issu·e·s de ce territoire. « Certains de ces processus sont très lents. C’était l’inverse de prendre une photo numérique ». Ruby Wallis revient sur la manière dont elle a co-construit sa série avec des demandeurs d’asile, en se basant sur leurs vécus et grâce à des techniques photographiques particulières. 🗓️ Les expositions sont ouvertes du mercredi au dimanche de 14h à 19h, jusqu’au 17 mai. 📍CENTQUATRE-PARIS 🔗 Rendez-vous dans le lien en bio pour plus d’informations pratiques ! - ✨ Meeting(s) with Ruby Wallis Throughout the festival, discover the 24 projects presented this year at Circulation(s) through the artists’ voices. This is an opportunity to explore their worlds in greater detail and learn more about their works and creative approaches. Since 2019, the festival has highlighted a particular emerging European photographic scene as part of its focus. For this 16th edition, the invitation is given to Ireland with the presentation of series by four artists from this territory. «Some of these processes are very slow. It was the opposite of taking a digital photograph». Ruby Wallis explains the way she built her series with asylum seekers, based on their histories and using special photography technics. 🗓️ The exhibitions are open Wednesday to Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm, through May 17 📍CENTQUATRE-PARIS 🔗 Check out the link in bio for more practical information! Avec le soutien du Centre Culturel Irlandais à Paris // With the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Fuil Fréamh agus Lus Mór (Bloodroot and Foxglove) by Ruby Wallis This project can be seen this year at Circulation(s), which takes place from March 21 to May 17 in Paris, France. @rubywallis_com @festival_circulations "Fuil Fréamh & Lus Mór / Bloodroot & Foxglove was developed during my project at Lismore Castle Arts in 2025. The work was made through conversations and walks with International Protection Applicants, using plants as metaphors for belonging, healing, and connection. Many of the images were taken during a night walk with the group through Lismore Gardens, using disposable 35mm cameras. […]" On view on yogurtmagazine.com . . . . #contemporaryphotography #plants

Earlier this month, students from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) spent two weeks immersed in the Burren landscape as part of their residency at Burren College of Art. During their visit, faculty members Eileen Hutton and Ruby Wallis led a workshop exploring natural pigments dyes and anthotype processes using plant materials gathered from the local landscape. BCA students also worked alongside the visiting students, guiding them in foraging for natural materials and sharing knowledge developed through their own ecological research and studio practices. While the ecology of the Burren is specific to this place, the approaches explored here extend beyond it. Workshops like this become a quiet exchange between places, where what begins in the Burren continues to evolve through future experiments, materials, and landscapes elsewhere. Thank you to Eileen and Ruby for sharing their knowledge and practice. #BurrenCollegeOfArt #ArtAndEcology #NaturalDye #Cyanotype #StudyAbroad