Radical Ruralism is an online archive of contemporary art with a rural regard, which I have been curating since 2023. 🌱👽

Radical Ruralism is art which has departed from historical, often romanticised pastoral rural scenes. It is contemporary art which examines rural topics within themes such as freedom, agriculture, environmentalism and community. Follow the ongoing collection here

 
@cannupahanska @_desertx G.H.O.S.T. Ride expands Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies (FAT) series, which uses speculative fiction to envision sustainable, land-based futures. The series imagines Indigenous communities utilizing innovative te
@romain.blanck showing @aaaanordhavn Salt and Pepper #radicalruralism #romainblanck
Studies on paper inspired by contaminated rural shapes. @bigbumbi #contemporarypainting #radicalruralism
@tadaocern #radicalruralism
@seancairnsartist #seancairns #contemporarypainting #radicalruralism
@darceyfleming_ Darcey’s artworks are made from recycled baler twine. Baler twine is used by farmers to tie hay bales together. After use, it is added to a landfill. Darcey reuses this material; farmers donate the twines to her, and she also f
Since the 1960’s the Chicago plumbers union have been dying the city river green to celebrate St.Patricks day. Since then, between 1998 and 2001, Olafur Eliasson @studioolafureliasson and his assistants used uranine, a non-toxic water-soluble d
@charlesgainesstudio @hauserwirthlosangeles #contemporarypainting #charlesgaines #radicalruralism
@kroennn curated by @0_1.gallery at @joey_ramone_rotterdam Dissapearing ice sculpture #art #sculpture #radicalruralism #kellykroener
@adrian.kiss Found objects with clay, sand, straw and wooden pallet. #adriankiss #sculpture #radicalruralism
Bog Skin group show in @rha.arts until 20th April curated by @patricktmurphy Select works inspired by the Irish boglands made over the past 50 years. Artists tagged in works #rha #bogart #bogskin #radicalruralism
Beautiful large scale paintings and video by @deirdre.omahony inspired by landscape, glacial erratics and a confict over development in rural Ireland. showing @visual_carlow until 18th May #contemporarypainting #radicalruralism
@olivierkostathefaine @jeanguillaumepanis Showing until 19th April #art #olivierkostathefaine #radicalruralism
@tintin_patrone the_oaten_flute.mid is a pastoral opera installation inspired by concepts of the mountainous idyll of the Swiss Alps and one of its most famous inhabitants, the fictitious character “Heidi.” It explore the relationships b
@fergalstyles Dead deer in the snow, 30x35cm Gouache on paper #contemporarypainting #radicalruralism #fergalstyles
@dianaalhadid @plantingfields With The Outside In, AI-Hadid takes four views of a fantastical room found in the Main Residence of Planting Fields and transports them outside into the surrounding naturalistic environment. A familiar place is inverted
@_tybet at @theaddress_gallery until March 8th Curated by @arnbrh An hour, several weeks, few centuries. #art #edoardocaimi #addressgallery #radicalruralism
@kimdorland Feverdream Acrylic and oil on canvas 150x120cm #art #kimdorland #radicalruralism #contemporarypainting
@nedsnider 140x94cm Acrylic, thread, various wood #art #nedsnider #radicalruralism #sticknation