Domestic and wild animals influence her as she progressively refines her idiosyncratic, bold painterly style. While her minimal animal forms continue to dominate her practice, she also works with a diverse range of themes and reference material that includes drawing inspiration from transport carriers, buildings, and objects. Ruth Howard (born 1968) has been a regular studio artist at Arts Project Australia since 1998 and had her first solo show at in the Arts Project Gallery in 2015. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions including ‘Turning the Page’, Gallery 101, Ontario, Canada; ‘Hybrid Making – new work from Australia, Canada, and Scotland’, Project Ability Gallery, Scotland; and Face-Up, Idiom Studio, Wellington, New Zealand.