RUBY SWINNEY

Ruby Swinney (b. 1992) is a South African painter known for her luminous monochromatic works on translucent surfaces such as silk and tracing paper. Working from found and personal photographs, she employs a reductive painterly approach that allows light itself to become both medium and subject. Her paintings often conjure a parallel, dreamlike realm - ghostly figures adrift in landscapes that resist geographical placement. These immersive visions of the natural world meditate on the fragility of human existence, evoking both the uncertainties of our present and a longing for a changing environment that is growing darker and more estranged. By rendering nature as an uncanny dreamscape, Swinney invites viewers to reflect on our increasing alienation from the natural world and the dangers of separating a constructed "human sphere" from the vast unpredictability of "the natural."... At the heart of her practice lie themes of loss and hope. Influenced by writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro and..