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Ruth Claxton, Postcard (Portrait of a Boy), cut postcard, 2008. Photo: Stuart Whipps

Ruth Claxton works with a variety of media, reconfiguring and altering pre-existing objects in order to create objects and installations which question what it is to look, see or experience. Postcard (Portrait of a Boy) is one of a series of works made using commercially produced postcards from the gift shop at the Barber Institute in Birmingham. The exhibition ‘Interventions’ at the Barber earlier this year accompanied ‘Lands End’, a major solo show at IKON, also in Birmingham. From 4 October – 19 November works from this series will be exhibited at Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh. ‘Lands End’ tours to Oriel Davies in Newtown 11 October – 29 November and then to Spike Island in Bristol and Grundy Gallery in Blackpool in 2009. The show is accompanied by a full colour catalogue with essay by Sally O’Reilly and an interview by Marie-Anne McQuay. Recently exhibitions include shows at The Collective Gallery in Edinburgh; FA Projects, 176, Art Futures and The Drawing Room in London; CAC in Vilnius; and Arquebuse in Geneva, as well as commissions for Strategic Questions and Cabinet Magazine. In July 2007 she completed the SW Arts production...

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