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Reservoir

By Ruth Spencer 2015

Dimensions
120cm x 120 cm

Oil on linen.One of a series of paintings of water in winter
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Later

An installation in an exhibition Espacio,Museo Barjola, Gijon, Asturias ,Spain. Based on a light shadow taken from another building and transferred to the gallery. The concept was to install a image of light in a space where the light undermined or unsettled the viewer's experience of the space they were in.

Mirage

Borrowed light

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