Ruth Watson is a multi-media artist with a trans-disciplinary practice including video, photography, installation, painting, and sculpture. She has been working with cartography since the 1980s as a basis for artworks. She writes occasionally about art and maps.
The artist's family history is a starting point to delve into the complications of global mobility, immigration, and colonisation.
A three-channel video work made while the artist was resident at Headlands Centre for the Arts, California.