Ruby Lord is a visual artist living and working in Glasgow. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking (2021), is the recipient of the GSA Widening Participation Pupils Choice Award for Fine Art (2021) and the RSA Latimer Award (2022).
Fusing painterly elements with digitally printed media, her practice exhibits unexpected viewpoints of incongruous landscapes. Through use of vivid colour, displaced pictorial space, and an underlying dystopic grit, her work investigates distorted associations we have with time and place, within the settings of our natural and man-made lands.
Here, passenger-less boats rest and travel in a glitched, transcendent environment. The slight misalignment of particular sections and the untrue water reflections hint towards an underlying eeriness that juxtaposes the scenes at first glance. The brightly coloured, stacked bags on the largest working boat deceivingly contain rotting waste being exported from the island. The source imagery for these paintings was taken by the artist on a trip to Venice earlier last year.
