Ruth Ige
Ponderings 2

April 2025
Studio Ponderings

The second edition of Ruth Ige's Studio Ponderings includes musings on abstraction, new poetry and updates on her experiments with cultural pigments.

The Art Paper , 18 September 2025

Ruth Ige discusses the key concepts of her work with The Art Paper, stating, 'it is a celebration of marginalised people who, despite it all, built and created legacies and cities within the havens of their words, works and communities'.

Business Day, 14 June 2024
Chris Thurman appraises the hues and gestures of And you are of the heavens and of the earth, describing the body of work as 'a painterly fusion of blackness with the bright light and the transcendental fire associated etymologically with the ethereal'.

Contemporary And, 7 October 2022

Ruth Ige speaks to Jody Adwoa Pinkrah about making art that is 'hard to decipher and the importance of portraying Blackness'.

ArtThrob, 3 October 2022

'Ige’s vividly blue renderings embody the equanimity of water. They lead us towards water’s violent, vacillating and visceral symbolic significance. They suggest that it is precisely water’s violence that births its emancipatory potential', writes Sihle Motsa on the body of work produced by Ige for Freedom's recurring dream.

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