Ruby Waage Townsend
Ruby Waage Townsend is available for commissions, exhibitions, artist talks, and workshops. They are DBS checked and have extensive experience delivering creative projects with children and young people in educational and community settings.
“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”
— C.G. Jung
Ruby Waage Townsend
Artist
London/ Leicester, UK
Available for commissions, exhibitions, artist talks, and workshops
DBS checked | Extensive experience working with children and young people
Education
2025–2027
MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2023
BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2025
He Had Me Convinced I Was a Changeling, CMR Project Space, Redruth, UK
2024
Love Letters to Ilkeston, Ilkeston Contemporary Arts, Ilkeston, UK
Entangled Alignment (Exhibition and Performance), Curious Tower, Nottingham, UK
Mix the Colours, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester, UK
2023
NANIMA: The Rebellion / The Libra and the Pear Tree
Joint exhibition with Shehzad Jaffer, Brunswick Art Gallery, Russell Square, London, UK
Free Range, Truman Brewery, London, UK
Residencies
2025
CMR Project Space, Redruth, Cornwall, UK
UK New Artists – People, Place, Practice
2024–2025
AA2A Artist in Residence, Loughborough University, UK
Ilkeston Contemporary Arts, Ilkeston, UK
Awards and Grants
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2025)
Irving Wernick Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art (2025)
Develop Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England (2025)
Collections
ILKON Gallery (Permanent and Private Collections), Ilkeston, UK
De Montfort University Board Room, Leicester, UK
Sir Peter Soulsby, Private Collection
Curatorial and Education
Curator and Space Manager, Ilkeston Contemporary Arts (2024–2025)
Educator, Soft Touch Arts and Pedestrian, Leicester, UK (2025)