Ruby Dickson is a painter based in London, UK. Influenced by her own HERITAGE as an artist of Irish and Jamaican DESCENT, Dickson’s work examines the RELATIONSHIP between contemporary methods of image production and processes of IDENTITY formation. Working at pace and with intuition, her paintings look for the simplest EXPRESSION of a FEELING and the most immediate way to depict a subject, conveying a tension between URGENCY and VULNERABILITY from icons of pop cultures and cartoon characters to unapologetically KITCHS motifs such as flowers, the artist uses apparently UNIVERSAL subjects to analyse the tenets of contemporary visual culture and SPECTACLE as symptoms of wider power RELATIONSHIP.

Ruby Dickson was born in 1996. Selected exhibitions include Maybe my fairy-tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK., NıCOLETTı, London, UK (2024); Independent Art Fair, New York, USA, with Harlesden High Street (2023); Minor Attraction, London (2023); Maybe The Real Art Is The Friends We Make Along The Way, The London Arts Board, London, UK (2023); Apt. 237, 3537, Paris, FR (2023); In The House Of Babylon, site-specific project for Metrolands Brent Biennial, Harlesden High Street and Notting Hill Carnival, London, UK (2022), Summer Show, Eve Liebe Gallery, London, UK (2022); FRIDGE – Brave New World, Anderson Contemporary, London, UK (2022); Imagining Otherwise, Harlesden High Street, London, UK (2022); and When Shit Hits the Fan, Again, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2021). Dickson graduated with a BA in Fine Art and Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017).

Dickson has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, Art Forum, ARTnews, Wallpaper, Hyperallergic, Elephant, émergent magazine, Plaster Magazine, and Spittle, among others.