Ice Cream (Sean) was commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers in 2011 for ‘The Writing on Your Wall’, an exhibition looking at printmaking as a socially concerned, democratic media designed to disseminate radical ideas. 

In April 2011 Ruth Ewan worked with young people from Broughton High School in Edinburgh to design a font and produce a series of text works. She asked the pupils to imagine newspaper headlines they might see in the year 2030. The resulting headlines varied between the hopeful to the surreal to this somewhat gloomy phrase, imagined with the issue of global warming in mind. Printed using Woodblock Type (Broughton). 

Woodblock Type (Broughton)

In April 2011 Ruth Ewan worked with young people from Broughton High School to design a font. The letters were originally drawn onto rubbers, one by each member of the class. The designs were then cut into maple woodblocks using a CNC router.

ABOUT

Ruth Ewan (b. 1980 Aberdeen) studied at Edinburgh College of Art. She has held solo exhibitions of her work at the Collective Gallery and The Embassy, in Edinburgh, Studio Voltaire and the ICA in London, Arthur Boskamp Stifung, Hohenlockstedt, at the CAAC in Seville and at Dundee Contemporary Arts. She has also completed projects with Artangel, Camden Arts Centre and the Chisenhale Gallery in London and has also had her work exhibited within several major survey exhibitions. These include EAST International in Norwich (where she was awarded the EAST Prize), the inaugural Triennial at the New Museum in New York, 'Altermodern' at Tate Britain, Art Sheffield 2010 and the Folkestone Triennial. In 2012 she was included in the Glasgow International. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.