We are delighted to welcome Ruth Maclennan to Artica

Ruth with Reveneset and Adventfjorden in the back, September 2023

Ruth Maclennan is an artist and researcher based in London and northern Scotland. Her art practice includes films, video installations, photographs, writing, drawing and interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects.

For the past ten years Ruth has been researching experiences of climate heating and geopolitics. Her films and photographs explore how the climate emergency has affected and altered experiences of place and landscape – both for the inhabitants, and as representation. She is known for her films set in post-Soviet countries, including A Forest Tale filmed in the Boreal forests of Arkhangelsk, Call of North, Hero City and Cloudberries, filmed in the Russian Arctic, Theodosia filmed in Crimea, Ukraine, a year before its annexation by Russia, and Capital filmed in Kazakhstan.

Ruth has a PhD from the Royal College of Art and is Institute Associate at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. She teaches moving image at Central Saint Martins and lectures internationally. Recent publications include Drift, capture, break, and vanish: sea ice in the Soviet Museum of the Arctic with Julia Lajus, in Ice Humanities: Living, thinking and working with a melting world, Ed. Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sorlin, Manchester University Press, 2022; and Fieldwork for Future Ecologies, edited by Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale and Polly Stanton, Published by Onamatapee, 2022.

Ruth Maclennan has been nominated by our key partner Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (NNKM) and will be staying at Artica until October. You can find out more about all the current and upcoming residents here.