Ruth Faerber

Ruth Faerber (9 October 1922 – 27 November 2024) was an Australian printmaker and art critic, known for her use of three-dimensional, mixed media prints using handmade paper, a technique which expanded the boundaries of printmaking in Australia.

Early life and education Ruth Levy was born in Woollahra, New South Wales on 9 October 1922. She attended Ravenswood School for Girls where her art teacher Gladys Gibbons introduced her to printmaking. before studying painting at East Sydney Technical College a design engineer, with whom she had two children. She was an art critic for The Australian Jewish Times for ten years, from 1969. Between 1964 and 1995, she held 31 solo exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, London and Japan. In 1980, she studied papermaking at the Jabberwock Papermill in Hobart, Artist and art critic Nancy Borlase wrote later that year, "Using a process of pressing, moulding, casting, couching and laminating, Faerber has produced a series of beautifully evocative, landscape-based, mixed-media works that lift printmaking into the sphere of individual bas reliefs."

Collections National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany