Bermingeham to Birmingham

By Ruth Spencer 2002

photo Ruth Spencer

Dimensions
6 levels of escalators

Originally part of an exhibition 'Bookworks' in Birmingham Central Library, this work is based on records in the local archives in the library. The glass sided escalators were used for a ribbon of words which thread through the library from ground to fifth floor. The lettering is vinyl letters on glass and the words record 141 different ways that Birmingham has been spelt from the Doomsday Book to the present day.

Ruth Spencer

An installation in an exhibition, Space Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK 2004. the light shadow was taken from a domestic interior and transferred to a gallery space in the Art Centre. The intention was to introduce a shadow that was unexpected and unexplained into an exhibition area, where there was a high level of people passing through. Most people instinctively around them for the source of the light.