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Originally from Penrith, Cumbria, Ruby Eden is a visual artist, specialising in oil painting. She recently graduated from the Manchester School of Art with a First Class Honours in Fine Art and Art History, and is now continuing her practice in and around Manchester. Alongside this, she is involved in community arts such as Blue Jam Arts, based in Cumbria. As a director for this organisation, she has helped lead and direct artist workshops for both children and adults. Alongside this, her work has been exhibited in a range of locations, both in Manchester and internationally in Castelo Branco, Portugal.

Her practice explores themes of memory and place through the depiction of space and objects, and their place within the domestic. Inspired by Bachelard's The Poetics of Space, Eden takes a phenomenological lens, beginning with personal lived experience of significant spaces, and communicating these notions to form a narrative of home that is both collective yet deeply personal. She explores the way in which the structural architecture of a space can mould light into shape and form, and these negative shapes often act as the foundation of her paintings. Her practice is an ongoing investigation into the interweaving relationship between the sensory, physical home and the ephemeral, intangible concepts we associate with it.