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Ruth obtained a BA in Fine Art from the
Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town in 1964, a PGCE (Art and Design) in 1981 at Trent Park, Middlesex University, and an MA in Women’s Studies (Video dissertation) from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 1999. She studied at the London School
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Ruth was born on 31st. October 1943 to Alfred
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Ruth moved to South-West France in 2008 where she lives in a rural village and since 2017 has been married to Dr. John Corley. She continues to write and paint. Her work includes novels, short stories, poetry and memoir, all with an environmental and political flavour. Ruth published a monograph on
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Hartley, R., as Bush D. Ruth, (1992), ‘The
Necessity of Creativity: Zambian Artists, Tradition, Creativity and the Rest of the World’, in Zambian Legislation and Practice in Relation to the Preservation of Cultural Property (ed. Zaucha, G), April 1992, Zambia National Committee of the International
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Bruce, A., (2018), International
Contemporaneity and the Third Havana Bienal, What is Critical Curating? / Qu’est-ce que le commissariat engagé?, Revue d'art Canadienne / Canadian Art Revue, Association des universités d’art du Canada / Universities’ Art Association of Canada, Arnprior, Ont. 43, 2,
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On 4th. October 1968 Ruth married Dr. Michael Bush. they moved to Zambia in 1972 where they lived for 22 years. They divorced in 1996. Ruth has four children, Rachma, a Church of
England vicar, Tanvir, a novelist, researcher and disabilities activist and author of 'Witchgirl' and 'Cull', Zoe, and
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Ruth has held many exhibitions of her art work, starting in Zambia in 1980, and subsequently in the UK and France. Her painting, The
Bombing of Chinkumbi Camp, is in the Zambia National Museum. In 1984 Ruth was invited to become Managing Director of the
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Ruth spent her childhood in
Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa in the early 60s to study art. After contravening apartheid laws and risking a 7-year prison sentence she had to leave South Africa and sought sanctuary in London.
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Ben, the founder of the Ulemu MMA Academy in Lusaka. Ruth has three grandchildren, one of whom is the political commentator and associate editor at the
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