Ruby Bateman is a visual artist working from her home studio in the South West Countryside. Using a richly colourful and symbolic visual language, she interweaves the esoteric, Classical and Gothic into the creation of her paintings and drawings. Ruby likes to make images that intertwine with her fiction writing, heavily inspired by ancestral origin stories and mythology, using homemade paints and other natural eco materials. Her work often reveals what is closet to her heart; her experience of love and loss, grief in the body, maternal politics, the transformation of plant medicine and dualism; the ego's (dis)association with nature. The representation of these emotions, stories and concerns is an alchemical process for Ruby as an artist, connecting her to a deeper material consciousness.

Ruby graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2020 with a Print Master’s, and was awarded a First BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Printmaking by The University of Brighton in 2017. She has exhibited in shows across the UK and internationally in NYC, and her work is represented by a variety of galleries and art dealers. Ruby has worked with social-political arts causes such as Birth Rites Collection, Big Arts Herstory Project (BHAPS) and Energy Garden and was shortlisted for the Birth Rites Collection New Works 2020 and HIGH Award 2020. She is particularly interested in collaborating and exhibiting on themes concerned with the esoteric, ecology and maternal/gender politics.