Our People
Louise Fago-Ruskin
Lecturer in BA (Hons) Fine Art
<p dir="ltr">Louise Fago-Ruskin is an artist, writer and lecturer living and working in the South West. She holds an MA in Photography from the University of Brighton, a BA from Plymouth University and a PGCE. Her work examines notions of the unconscious, utilising the camera as a contemporary confessional space. She aims to tackle such themes as ideological manipulation, familial notions of separation and reformation, and performance as reparative action.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in group shows such as The Hyeres Festival of Fashion and Photography (Hyeres, France), Arles Photography Open Salon (Installation, Arles), and Parallax (La Galleria, London). She is currently represented by La Galerie Sakura in Paris. Louise's works have also been nominated for a variety of awards including 'Foam What's Next: A Search into the Future of Photography'.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Louise has recently been selected from over 500 artists, writers and historians to take part in the Arquetopia International Mentorship Programme - a highly respected not-for-profit organisation in Puebla, Mexico and has recently published a photographic essay in <em>The Image Journal</em> (edition 103), a literary and arts quarterly edited by Aaron Rosen (" Art and Religion in the 21st Century") and is looking forward to a guest essay in the pending publication <em>The Liminal Loop </em>from The Lutterworth Press.<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>NOMINATIONS</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">2023: Recipient of Arquetopia Mentorship.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2021: Recipient of Arquetopia Foundation 10th Anniversary Scholarship Award and the Arquetopia International Mentorship Program.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2011: Nominee – 5th Annual Photography Masters Cup</p>
<p dir="ltr">2011: Foam – What’s Next: A Search into the Future of Photography</p>
<p dir="ltr">2009: Artist of the Year, TACO</p>
<p dir="ltr">2008: AxisMAstars 08 – www.axisweb.org</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>ARTIST RESIDENCIES</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">2022 : Arquetopia Foundation and International Artist Residency. Puebla. Mexico. Scholarship<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">2017: Arquetopia Foundation and International Artist Residency. Puebla. Mexico<br /></p>
<p>Louise Fago-Ruskin’s current work entitled <em>Til All is Correct </em>seeks to examine the delicate territory of contested ideologies in a world beset with traumatic political and religious conflict. Its beginnings sit within her own familial heritage, examining painful historical acts of prejudice, exile and violence. Yet it strives to extend its reach, to tackle themes of collective traumas both past and present and to tussle with the complex ethics of memorialisation and representations of genocide.</p>
<p><strong>Exhibitions: </strong><br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">2024 : <strong>PILOT. Work in Progress</strong>. AUP Fine Art Team. PS1. Plymouth.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2023 : <strong>The Summer Group Show</strong>. The Parsonage Gallery. Maine. USA. ( Dr Aaron Rosen.)</p>
<p dir="ltr"> 2022: <strong>Til All is Correct</strong>. Feature - Dodho Magazine.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2022: <strong>The Summer Group Show</strong>. The Parsonage Gallery. Maine. USA. ( Dr Aaron Rosen.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">2021: <strong>Out of Our Comfort Zone</strong>. Henry Luce 111 Center for the Arts and Religion. Arthur and Marjourie Dadain Gallery. Washington.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2020: <strong>Home Alone Together</strong>. Image Journal. Group online exhibition.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2015: Group Show: Humble Arts (HAFNY) “<strong>F*cked Up</strong>”</p>
<p dir="ltr">2009:<strong> TACO</strong> – Torre Abbey Contemporary Open, Torre Abbey Historic House and Gallery , Torquay, Devon (Artist of the Year)</p>
<p dir="ltr">2008: <strong>Conjunction 08 </strong>(commissioned artist) , November 7- December 13 at the AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2008: <strong>The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery</strong> (commissioned artist) , November – January 2009, Stoke-on-Trent.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2009: <strong>Arles Open Walls</strong>: Arles. France. </p>
<p dir="ltr">2007: Group show’, ‘<strong>Hyeres Festival International de Mode et de Photographie</strong>’, Hyeres,France.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2006: <strong>Group Exhibition,</strong> Malpass Gallery, Honiton,Devon.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2006: <strong>Degree Show</strong>, University of Plymouth, Exeter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2005: <strong>Joint Show</strong>, King Ludd Gallery Exeter</p>
<p><strong>Publications: </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">2022: The Art of Liminality. “<strong>Photography: Exile Outside the Camp.</strong>” The Liminal Loop. Ed Tim Carson, 166-170. Cambridge. The Lutterworth Press. 2022.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2019: Visual Essay. ‘<strong>Image</strong>’ Journal. (Ed Aaron Rosen)</p>
<p dir="ltr">2018: Introductory essay to Curno, J. Dartmoor Lifetimes</p>
<p dir="ltr">2017: Introductory essay to Curno, J. Future History</p>
<p dir="ltr">2016: Introductory essay to Curno, J. Brimham. Plymouth: Fotonow CIC</p>
<p dir="ltr">2014: <strong>Exerting Vision</strong>. Introductory essay to South West Graduate Photography Prize. Plymouth: Fotonow CIC</p>
<p dir="ltr">2007: ‘<strong>Hyeres Festival International de Mode et de Photographie’</strong>. Photographie 7-8/2007</p>
<p dir="ltr">2010: <strong>Seven</strong> – essays by Fergus Heron and David Green, published by University of Brighton.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>ACADEMIC PAPERS</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">2017: Sensing Soul: Remonstration, Distortion and Reconciliation Within Photographic Practice. Symposium: Representing the Sixth Sense in Art an Visual Culture. Institute of Advanced Studies. Presented atUCL. London.<br /></p>
