Ruth Horam

Ruth Horam was born in 1931 in Tel Aviv

Ruth Horam was born in Tel Aviv in 1931. She finished the Rehavia Gymnasium in Jerusalem and later studied art at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. She was married to Yehuda Horam, who served as Israel's ambassador to Switzerland.

In 1960 she won a UNESCO painting prize in Paris. From 1964 to 1967 she chaired the Jerusalem Association of Painters and Sculptors. In 1969 she went to Seoul to study calligraphy and came back to Israel in 1973.

From 1993 she worked at the Jerusalem Printing Workshop. Her monotype prints were built from layers of freely printed meshes, with paper cuttings, leaves, twigs, fabric and photos added in. She worked in themed series, and each print was one of a kind.

She also made public art in Jerusalem and other Israeli cities, often with the artist Magdalena Hefetz. Her focus was ecology and recycling, and she built sculptures from old car parts. In 2015 she built the 17 meter sculpture Woman's Heart at the Midburn festival.

Horam lived in Jerusalem. She died on 2 August 2021.