Ruth Legg

Ruth Legg is an artist and audio-visual archivist working across video, installation, performance, and the written word. Her artistic practice examines the relationship between power and artistic and linguistic forms, exploring how aesthetic choices lend authority to political values and ideologies.

Her work is often informed by feminist and neurodivergent perspectives. Past art works have considered the use of archival film in the canonisation of art history; the mobilisation of cultural objects in arguments supporting Brexit; and the role of camera angles in the televised funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. These concerns extend to Legg’s archival practice, where she focuses on how language—such as metadata descriptions or subtitles—within audio-visual archives shapes meaning and determines access.

She holds an MFA from Piet Zwart Institute and an MA in audio-visual archiving from the University of Amsterdam.