Ruby Bailey (b. 2000, South Africa) uses digital collage and video to question conventional definitions of the ‘real’: recontextulising and distorting imagery that blurs the line between the digital and the everyday. She is interested in worldbuilding, protocols, superficial utopias, and endless mis-en-abymes. In London, she’s exhibited at The Crypt, APT Gallery and Southwark Park Galleries, and in Dubai she exhibited in ‘CHIAROSCURO - Curated by Michéle Lamy’ at the ICD Brookfield Place. She has created visuals for events in London, Berlin, Cape Town, Venice and Athens. Other collaborators include the Berlin-based collective ‘Endlich Mal’, the 'Cybernetic Listening’ collective, and TWIST magazine. She completed a course in Traditional Drawing and 3D modelling at RISD (2020), and graduated with a first in Fine Art from UAL (2023). She releases work on the platforms Metalabel and Zora, and is currently a research assistant at Zayed University, Dubai.
