Judith Rugg

Judith Rugg is an artist and art theorist and Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art & Spatial Culture at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. She studied Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art, Ravensbourne College of Art & Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She holds a PhD from Middlesex University. 

Her work is included in the following public collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts Council of England, Auckland City Art Gallery, Liverpool University, The Open University and The Contemporary Arts Society as well as many private collections. 

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Darkness Invisible Part 1

Darkness Invisible Part 1

Teju Cole's recent book, Black Paper (University of Chicago Press, 2021) proposes ways in which to think critically about 'blackness and it's connotations.'
Coloured Variations

Coloured Variations

David Batchelor draws on an apparently unending list of thinkers in his introduction to On Colour (2008) including Julia Kristeva (‘colour is the shattering of unity’), Josef Albers...
Hypercathections

Hypercathections

In James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man (Vintage, 2003), the protagonist, a professor of gender studies sinks into paranoia via a series of vividly drawn spatial scenarios.....