Still Not Fixed

Still Not Fixed is an exhibition borne out of Ruth Proctor's six-month residency at John Jones and draws upon the many elements that make up her rich and diverse practice. Working with the architecture of the Project Space and her ongoing interest in the body as spectacle, Proctor has incorporated a wall-to-wall synthetic ice floor into the exhibition. Visitors are required to skate around the space in order to view the work.
 

Proctor initially trained as an ice-skater, competing at championship level, before turning to art in her early twenties. An element of performance still runs through much of her work, which nearly always alludes to the body – as spectacle, as physical capacity and as presence. Proctor’s work is characterised by its poetic language and use of ephemeral acts, running across media including drawing, sculpture, installation, film and performance.

 
For John Jones Project Space, Proctor has created a body of new works that collectively provoke a subjective response in the visitor. The exhibition's title Still Not Fixed refers to the state of perpetual transience, which is both a feature of the exhibition and the artist's wider practice, while it also resonates with the physical act of slipping on ice.