Posted by Ruth Maclennan
The Hawk and the Tower
published on : November 14, 2024‘The future of humanity’
published on : October 1, 2024
The sculpture, ‘Wings’, commemorates those who died in the anti-Communist resistance in Romania and Bessarabia between 1945 and 1989. It replaces a statue of Lenin. The ‘House of the Free Press’ was the former headquarters of ‘The Spark’ newspaper. This ideological soup of rehashed symbols and random vehicles, cosmic idols and exhaust fumes clogs the senses.
Swallow Summer
published on : July 22, 2024I lay down on the grass to look upwards and caught sight of swallows darting about high up above. They reminded me of all the other swallows I have watched – north, south, east and west. They fly everywhere. I love them.
Flowers over Parliament
published on : June 24, 2024
All the Tears in the Sea
published on : June 4, 2024All the Tears in the Sea, 2’12” excerpt of 35’ film, 2024
Biography
Ruth Maclennan is an artist. She lives in London. Her work includes films, multi-channel moving image installations, photographs, performances, writing and interdisciplinary curatorial projects. Maclennan’s films and photographs explore how the climate emergency has irrevocably transformed ways of seeing and understanding landscape and place – both for their inhabitants, and as representation. Informed by ecological thinking, cross-disciplinary research and fieldwork, her works examine places through the relationships, cultures, geographical conditions, and stories that form them. She exhibits in exhibitions and film festivals in Europe, USA, Australia and Central and East Asia. LUX Artists’ Moving Image distributes her films (https://lux.org.uk/artist/ruth-maclennan).