Ruth Mulvie BA (hons) Fine Art

Born United Kingdom 1979.
Ruth Mulvie currently lives and works as a painter in Glasgow.

Education.

1998-2002 BA Hons Fine Art (Drawing and Painting), Glasgow school of Art,
2000 Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts, Paris - Brussels funded study
1990-1997 Sir John Lawes School, Hertfordshire.

Exhibitions/Group Shows.

14.10.04 - Artco, Leeds. (
18.06.04 - Group figurative Show, Fotheringham Gallery, Scotland.
05.05.04 - Group Show, Scotlandart.com, Edinburgh.
15.04.04 - Glasgow Art Fair.
17.03.04 - AAF, Battersea, London.
14.06.03 - Scotlandart.com, Glasgow.
10.05.03 - Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen.

Solo Shows and Selected Exhibitions.

04.11.04 - �Girls, Girls, Girls�, Solo Show, Lava, Glasgow.
02.10.04 - �Love�, Solo Show, Galerie Raphinel, France � selected for arts council
funded exhibition.
10.10.03 - �Nutbush City�, Kelly Cooper Barr, Glasgow.
21.03.03 - �Pleasure Delight�, Solo Show, Art House Hotel, Glasgow.
�2002�, Graduates Show, Glasgow School of Art.
28.11.00 � �Etrangeres�, ENSBA, Paris

Relevant Employment

2002-2005 Gallery Assistant, scotlandart.com, Glasgow
2000-2002 Studio assistant for Peter Howson, Glasgow based painter.

Press/Other Useful Information

October 2004 � featured in Property section of The Scotsman.
March 2005 Home Section Sunday Times.April 2005 Homes and Interiors Scotland.
My work is fascinated with places of pleasure � swimming pools, theme parks, lidos, beaches, the seaside and holiday parks. I love the glamorisation and humour of these places, beauty pageants and the iconography.
My paintings are brightly coloured, the brush marks often fast and thick, sometimes lighter and more careful. I want to capture a humour or oddness about these places. I work from both the imagination and fragments of old images that I piece together to create my own places of pleasure.
I like to paint the women from these past eras in rows � almost militant � or to capture the scene of an ideal life. My paintings have been described as funky and retro.
I have shown work in Scotland and Europe, coming exhibitions include Glasgow Kelly Copper Barr, London Art Fair and Hong Kong.