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Ruth Gibson Makes

Fourth Year Fine Art Student
DJCAD Commission Artist based in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

28/05/2026

A few little snippets of some of my favourite quotes from my film, 'The Intangible Homeland', now showing at the 2026 DJCAD Degree show 💖

I can't thank everyone who helped me bring this work together enough. It's been an honour and this week has been a whirlwind ✨

27/04/2026

After 7 months of location scouting, filming,
recording, driving to the four corners of Scotland, getting soaked repeatedly, and then being locked in the edit suite for 3 of those months... My film is finally finished and ready for degree show next month. To celebrate I thought I'd share some of the clips for a sneak peak 👀

Once again I cannot thank everyone who got involved in this work and my little team of helpers and emotional supporters enough ❤️ This has been a mammoth project and such a journey from start to finish (literally!)

I also have so much gratitude for the amazing tech staff at DJCAD. Without them I wouldn't have been able to bring all this together the way I dreamt.

26/03/2026

It's today!
and have pulled together a team working to spread the good word of the bannock. A day to celebrate Scottish food heritage and the humble bannock - a staple of Scottish diets for centuries which has been disappearing from our plates.

I worked with to pull together a fushion dish which paired my little bannocks with a richly spiced daal, Noby's wonderful pineapple jam, and fiery sambal, marrying flavours of Malaysia with Scotland's oats. The combination worked wonderfully, the bannock is, at its heart, a flatbread with a neutral flavour of oats so they pair wonderfully with sweet or savoury dishes and can be eaten with any meal, or as a high energy snack!

Photos courtesy of

Celebrate the bannock, they're so easy to make, I like to make mine quite thin for scooping and spreading but they come in all shapes and sizes ❤️ ask yer granny, she might just have an old family recipe 😉

16/03/2026

March coming in like a lion, hopefully will be out like a lamb as we're all craving the respite of calmer days.

One month on and I am still trudging on through the grieving process of losing my oldest friend and muse. Creatively and motivationally stunted by loss and the trials of the past year, I have, as ever, sought solace in nature and in observing the slow reawakening happening around me. Old life slipping away alongside the eruption of new life from the cold earth. There's something poetic in the quiet hidden corners of wild spaces where there is no mourning, just a quiet carrying on in acceptance of the cyclical nature of existence. Birth, death, decay, rebirth. On and on ad infinitum.

I'm rambling. Degree show is looming.

Here's to the horse of a lifetime, Kelly.
You shaped the direction of my life in ways none of us imagined. I'll always be a horse girl and you'll always guide my hand in everything I create.

12/01/2026

A few of my favourites from a very special day. Two years ago I had the ultimate honour of being by my best friend's side while she married the love of her life in a beautiful village in the Cairngorms.
Just a few days before the wedding, Hollie received the worst news - her Dad had been rushed to critical care following a cardiac arrest. Hollie and Drew faced the difficult decision to let the wedding go on once they knew that, by a miracle, and the incredible care from the Golden Jubilee Hospital, her dad was going to make it.
Now, two years on, Hollie was finally able to complete her wedding album, returning to Nethybridge to have her father-daughter dance and photographs taken around the lovely hotel. It was my honour once again to return with them to assist and take these photos and be part of another special day. We were blessed with the same gorgeous weather we had back in 2023 (though an absence of the northern lights this time!) and it couldn't have been a lovelier day to complete the wedding pictures for Hollie, Drew, and her dad Marcus.

03/12/2025

What a privilege this semester has been.
To everyone who has helped me in making, given me advice, shared their stories, supported me while I've stepped way out of my comfort zone, and volunteered their time to speak about and let me film the amazing work they are doing - I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️

Extra thanks to:

Your time and knowledge has been so valuable to me for this project

18/11/2025

This year's project is making 6 year old Ruth very very happy with all this pony time out on the hills.. It was so interesting to spend a day with last week learning about the work they are doing to help preserve our at risk native highland ponies and watching them do the job they were bred to do.

I'm only two and a half months in and my brain feels fit to burst with all the people I have met and the conversations had around Scottish culture, heritage, and that intangible connection to the people who came before and the land we've inherited. The threads that weave all of us together is becoming both clearer and more complex than I ever imagined it could be.

I can't thank everyone who has been interviewed and allowed me to film enough. It feels like I'm cooking up something special this year and I couldn't be doing it without everyone's generosity ❤️

More to come 👀

06/09/2025

Up to the oxters in fourth year planning.
Woodland treasures and kitchen witchin ✨

12/08/2025

Exhibition highlights pt.2
Mostly taken by and as somehow I was so lost in the chaos I failed miserably to document the event!

11/08/2025

First highlight reel from the weekend!
Honestly I'm still reeling from it, it was a complete blur and I'm so proud of what the three of us managed to achieve! I honestly never imagined putting on an exhibition in Glasgow like this and I'm so so grateful to everyone who came out to support us and for all the feedback and encouragement 🥹 we met some really interesting people and it's left me feeling bolstered for stepping into degree show year!
Ginormous well done to and 🥂
And a huge thank you to for having such an amazing space for us start-ups to be able to use!
And thank you to for taking some photos for us and your help and support over the last week!

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