Ruolan
































Ruolan’s work sits between painting and sculpture, exploring how overlooked materials, traces and provisional structures resist fixed systems of recognition. Working with found materials and spatial interventions, she is interested in moments when familiar ways of understanding begin to loosen.  
            Her work creates shifting hierarchies of attention, bringing into view latent relationships between material things. Within these spaces of hesitation, meaning gathers around what lingers at the margins of language. Her practice traces the contours of these encounters while acknowledging the inherent inaccessibility of their core.




Education
MFA Fine Art
Goldsmiths University of London 
2024-2026

Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice
The Glasgow School of Art
2022-2023

B.E. Material Forming and Control Engineering
2016–2020




Shows
2026 
GOLDSMITHS MFA DEGREE SHOW
Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths
London

2026
RA SUMMER EXHIBITION 2026
Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts
London

2025
Derby Print Open
Banks Mill Studios
Derby

2025
Slits
Safehouse 2, 137 Copeland Road
London

MLITT DEGREE SHOWS
2023
Stow Building, GSA
Glasgow

REPOSTE
2023
Barnes Garage, GSA
Glasgow

TITLE……PENDING
2023
French Street, Glasgow

EARLY DAYS
2022
Barnes Garage, GSA
Glasgow




Residency
2025 
Everybody Arts
Halifax




Press
Artists' Drawings Issue 1, 
2025

 



Seam
Installation detail
London 
2026
One Three : Two Zero
Wood, inkjet print on paper, screenprint on paper, plastic sheet, adhesive dots, natural light performance (approximately 1:30–2:30 pm on sunny days)
London
2026
Mapping
Screenprint on wall, wood,inkjet prints,mokulito plate, and mixed media
Dimensions variable
Installation detail
2026
What Refuses to Settle
Sound installation (approximately 1 hour with irregular intervals of silence), transducer, metal, inkjet print on paper, wood, wall intervention
Dimensions variable
2026
Allowance(s)
Installation detail
Wood, metal, screenprint on wall, acrylic on wall
Dimensions variable
2026
Loose Coordinates
Wood, screenprint on wood, screenprint on fabric, canvas, prints, photographs, inkjet print on transparency film, plants, ring binders, foam, Blu-Tack on wall
Dimensions variable
2026
Held
Wood, inkjet print on paper, drawing, screenprint, Blu Tack on wall and mixed media
Dimensions variable
2026
Provisional Grids
Wood, embossing on paper and inkjet print on paper
Dimensions variable
2026
Slightly
Wood and acrylic on wall
Dimensions variable
2025
Partial Map (detail)
Print on wood, acrylic sheet
Dimensions variable
2025
Green Cross
Wood, print on wall, screenprint on paper and sawdust
Dimensions variable
2025
It Is in That Direction (detail)
Cardboard, print on wood, print on wall, print on metal
Dimensions variable
2025
Undone
Wood, metal, screenprint on printed canvas, acrylic on wall monotype on sketchbook
Dimensions variable
2025
It Is in That Direction (detail)
Cardboard, print on wood, print on wall, print on metal
Dimensions variable
2025
Transformative Trace
Metal, wood, etching, map, paper, glue, print on canvas, acrylic on wall 
Dimensions variable
2025
Transformative Trace
Metal, wood, etching, map, paper, glue, print on canvas, acrylic on wall 
Dimensions variable
2025
Softly Falling
Wire, clay, plaster, resin, wood, plastic and canvas
Dimensions variable
2024
That Day
Monotype
42x30cm
2025
Peripatetic
Metal, wood, canvas, print on linen, glue and plaster
Dimensions variable
2024
Stand and Lean
Paper mache and metal and oil on canvas
Dimensions variable
2023
When They Move
Metal and paper mache and oil on canvas (37x27cm, 110cmx200cm)
Dimensions variable
1987
Reecho
Metal and oil on canvas (37x27cm) 
Dimensions variable
2023

Outside
Metal and paper mache and oil on canvas (65x55cm)
Dimensions variable
2023























Ruolan
@i_am_not_ruolan