Ruth Buchanan
The Arrangement: of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on...
31 May - 5 July 2024
Ruth Buchanan
The Arrangement: of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on...
31 May - 5 July 2024
Ruth Buchanan
The Arrangement: of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on..., 2024
installation view: Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Ruth Buchanan with Eleanor Buchanan
The establishment of the jacquard loom 1, 2024
mixed media, custom frame
765 x 715mm
Ruth Buchanan
The Arrangement: of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on..., 2024
installation view: Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Ruth Buchanan
The establishment of the jacquard loom 2, 2024
mixed media, custom frame
765 x 715mm
Ruth Buchanan
The Arrangement: of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on..., 2024
installation view: Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Ruth Buchanan
The arrangement, 2024
hand-embroidered cotton and acrylic thread on linen
520 x 320mm
Ruth Buchanan
Places open on to other places (my home, 2012), 2014/2024
digital print, frame
620 x 920mm
Ruth Buchanan with Eleanor and Uma Buchanan
Midwife Palace 1-20, 2020-2024
hand dyed and knotted wool
dimensions vary
Ruth Buchanan with Eleanor and Uma Buchanan
Midwife Palace 1-20 (detail), 2020-2024
hand dyed and knotted wool
dimensions vary
Ruth Buchanan
How to listen, 2024
pencil on paper, custom frame
290 x 220mm
Ruth Buchanan
Flesh and Coming season, 2024
pencil on paper, custom frame
290 x 220mm
Ruth Buchanan
This is the word, 2024
pencil on paper, custom frame
290 x 220mm
Ruth Buchanan
Silver marks, 2024
cut vinyl
370 x 230mm
ed 10 + 1AP
Ruth Buchanan
As in, perspective, 2015
flat-bed print on heat compressed formica on board
1185 x 840mm
Ruth Buchanan
Or a document, 2015
flat-bed print on heat compressed formica on board
1185 x 840mm
Ruth Buchanan
Brain, Building, Body, 2015
flat-bed print on heat compressed formica on board
1185 x 840mm
Ruth Buchanan
Brain, Building, Body, 2015
flat-bed print on heat compressed formica on board
1185 x 840mm
Ruth Buchanan
Its Interior, 2015
geo mesh banner, fittings, rope
1185 x 840mm
Ruth Buchanan
Its Interior (detail), 2015
geo mesh banner, fittings, rope
1185 x 840mm
Ruth Buchanan
Can tame anything [Surrender version], 2016/2024
hand-applied acrylic paint
installation dimensions variable
Coastal Signs is pleased to present The Arrangement: of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on... a solo exhibition by Ruth Buchanan. The Arrangement... comprises a constellation of Buchanan’s work spanning the last ten years. The exhibition includes drawing, collage, a large-scale banner, wall paintings and vinyls, and a selection of textile works, some of which were developed with the artist’s children.
As the title (borrowed from a chapter of prose by Bernadette Mayer) suggests, Buchanan’s new exhibition is as complex as a life is. Both dense and transient, the collection of work in The Arrangement... suggests diaphonous boundaries between art-making and domestic life, and between the abstract and the concrete.
Ruth Buchanan (b. 1980, Ngāmotu New Plymouth) is an artist and uri of Taranaki mounga who lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She works across exhibition making, writing, design, and teaching. She has realised significant exhibitions and commissioned works with Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth; Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart; The New Commissioners/Neue Aufftrageber, M ̈ochengladbach; Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington; Badischer Kunsterverin, Karlrsuhe; Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery; MASP, Sao Paolo; Gwangju Biennale (8); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunsthaus Bregenz; If I can’t Dance..., Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; and The Showroom, London. In 2018 she was awarded the Walters Prize by international judge Adriano Pedrosa.
Ruth is currently Kaitohu Director at Artspace Aotearoa. Her work is included in the collections of Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Toi o Tamaki Auckland Art Gallery, MASP, Christchurch Art Gallery, Victoria University, and others. The Arrangement... is Ruth’s first solo exhibition at Coastal Signs, preceded by two group exhibitions: Winter Skies (2023) and Celebration? Real life (2022).