Ruth was a recipient of a New Media Board Grant, 2003 and a New Work Grant in 2009 both from the Australia Council.  Her work is held in the collections of Devonport Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Port Arthur Historic Site, National Trust (Tasmania).

Ruth Frost’s art practice spans the disciplines of photography, video and sound – exploring personal memory and the potential of the photograph to act as poetic metaphor for hidden memories of place.  She has exhibited widely with recent solo projects including Theatres in 2014 and 2015; Domain House, a commissioned project for Domain: a contested landscape in 2013; Place of Residence, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart in 2011; Oak Lodge, as part of Trust, a commissioned project for Ten Days on the Island in 2009; and Child, The Port Arthur Project, Tasmania in 2007. Her work has been represented in numerous group exhibitions including the Melbourne Art Fair in 2014; Theatre of the World at Mona in 2012; Seeing Double, touring to Malaysia in 2011; and the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2006.

She studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, completing her MFA in Photography in 1987.  Between 1989 and 1995 Ruth lectured in the Photomedia Workshop at the Canberra School of Art, ANU, before returning to Tasmania.  She received her PhD from the University of Tasmania in 2003, where she now lectures in photography.