Ruby Waage Townsend

Ruby Waage Townsend (b.1996, Leicester, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, performance, installation, and myth. Their practice treats painting as a performative act, creating immersive worlds where folklore, dark humour, enchanted realism, and unstable identities collide through theatrical self-portraiture and world-building.
Ruby is currently completing an MFA in Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art and graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art
from De Montfort University in 2023. Recent highlights include a commissioned portrait of Baroness Doreen Lawrence, residencies with AA2A and UK New Artists, and receiving the Irving Wernick Scholarship and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Commissioned portrait by Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Irving Wernick Scholarship, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.