Produced by local historian + knowledge curator Dominique Tessier, Art Movements is a collection of workbooks aiming to encourage the study of Local Art Histories + initiate conversations on the nature of Northern Aesthetics.
Contents: Activity_1: Fill the Gaps Activity_2: Stockport Move Activity_3: Get the Picture! Activity_4: Homework...
WORKBOOK_3: RUTH DUCKWORTH
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Activity_1: Fill the Gaps... Source: http://jackwhite.net/quakers/concern.htmlHamburg (a) Ruth was born in ____________ in 1919,. the daughter of a Manchester Jewish lawyer who was working in ____________ and his non-Jewish German wife. Although not strictly-speaking a refugee, Ruth had been sent by her parents to the _____________ School of Art after Nazi legislation had barred Jews from art colleges in Germany. Need help? Here are the missing words: Liverpool Germany Hamburg
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(b) Ruth [Windmuller] and Hilde [Rujder] were drawn into the enterprise of the ambitious puppeteer, Bruno Tublin, whom they accompanied as his (unpaid) assistants to schools and societies throughout the __________ . By the March of 1941 Tublin had ‘played his puppets’ in over 300 schools, publicising himself as something of a pioneer, bring ‘the old stagecraft’ to the notice of local teachers and children, so keeping a tradition alive. He had entertained ‘many hundreds of appreciative kiddies’ in _________________ and _______________with puppet plays. Some written by Manchester people. During the summer of 1942 he made a name for himself for the ‘delightful displays’ in local _______ during Manchester’s ‘holidays at home’ programme. Ruth and Hilde cycled from place to place with Mr. Tublin’s equipment, helped in the performances (‘blowing smoke through holes’, Hilde remembers) and carrying back to the hostel his bags of pennies. Although regarded by both as ‘a wide boy’, for Ruth, the making of puppet heads turned out to be the first stage in a career at the end of which she remains a world-famous _________,
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while puppet drama led Ruth into the world of theatre. Need help? Here are the missing words: Lancashire parks Cheshire north-west ceramist
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Activity_2: Stockport Move In the 1940s, Ruth Duckworth worked in a munitions factory in Stockport, at the time she was living in a hostel for refugees located in Cheadle Hulme. Can you find the exact address?
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Activity_3: Get the Picture! Find on the web a picture of The Spirit of Survival by Ruth Duckworth From an early age, artist Ruth Duckworth would turn to Art for healing - in an interview given in 2005 she said: “I was a rather depressed young woman of 17 or 18. My favorite artists were Rembrandt and Dürer and the poet Rilke. And these things got me over my depression. I thought if they can do this for me maybe I could do this for other people.” (1) She also referred to her time in Stockport: "Sixty years ago…I started working in clay. I lived in a hostel for refugees for a while, run by the Quakers. I had a tiny little room to work in…I imagined whether what I was making would be ten miles out into space…and if it could survive being out in this fantastic space then it was OK. That was my criteria." (2)
(1) Source: dianethodos.com/Diane_Thodos_Homepage/Ruth_Duckworth.html (2) Source: dianethodos.com/Diane_Thodos_Homepage/Ruth_Duckworth.html
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Activity_4: Homework Draw up a list of women artists who studied art in Stockport, Manchester, Liverpool or Salford - between 1868 + 1968. Then join Stockport Surgery's Facebook page (1) + share your list.
(1) https://www.facebook.com/StockportArtSurgery
WORKBOOK_3: RUTH DUCKWORTH
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WORKBOOK_3: RUTH DUCKWORTH
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