Ruth Getachew is a visual artist (b. 1998) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Recognising her talent since age 2, her parents enrolled her in summer art classes, in Abyssinia Fine Arts & Vocational Training Center since age 7. She attended on the years 2005-2008 as well as 2010-2011 and collected 5 certificates. In these years she had theoretical classes and also practiced: pencil drawing, watercolor painting, some print making techniques, Celtic and geometrical design. Ruth had 3 months of in studio art practices with visual artist Dawit Adnew and visual artist Leikun Nahusenay separately in 2015, also being introduced to mediums such as pastel, chalk pastel as well as charcoal. At this time Ruth worked pencil still life drawings, pen and pencil form composition studies, stain glass on paper using pastel, expressive abstract acrylic painting and so on. Ruth self-practiced works before joining university also included mediums such as collage (using used up exercise book covers, natural plant pieces, etc.), paper mache, color pencils, markers, pens, crayons, ink, leaf sheath, mud, soft stones and even eye shadows of a makeup experimenting them on drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc. After high school and before she moved to her second university campus to study art, Ruth was an architecture student in Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City development of Addis Ababa University on the years 2018 and 2019, where she also attended art courses (in both years) that let her practice pencil/ink sketches and drawings as well as water color and ink paintings. At this time she drew and painted houses, cityscapes, plants, still life, etc. From childhood to Architecture school Ruth's various training background and eager self-led experimentations made her work on various themes but her portrait works of different mediums outnumbered the rest. Ruth received her BFA degree in painting from Alle School of Fine Arts and Design (Addis Ababa University) in 2023. Since her third year practice in there she started focusing on collage, inspired by her adoration towards magazines she collected since childhood. Even if she began with just cutting different magazine images attaching them on hard papers in an attempt to just create an attractive composition without a meaning behind, later on she started focusing on just using the colors, shapes and textures cut out from the magazines to make her own kind of nonrepresentational collage art compositions. As a fourth year student (in her graduating year) she moved her works forward with her advanced experience and knowledge of order, value contrast, color contrast, another medium applications (such as MDF as a support, color papers in addition to her magazines ), etc. aligning them with a concept she developed which is about the importance of noticing one's own energy vibrations as it is our fundamental existence that is influenced and shaped by different factors around and inside us and also in reverse affecting back everything inside and around us whether it is our own health or wider issues like the wars we see in the world. She tries to put people in different E-MOTIONS (energy in motions/ vibrations) using different arrangements of colors, textures, shapes as well as forms. She chose nonrepresentational approach in an attempt to make people experience emotions detached from what a representational image would instead trigger them to think about and also because she loves playing with colors themselves. These theme of works called "vibration" extended up to now as her primary theme and she is also working on her secondary theme "vibration and Africa" aligning the previous concept with incorporation of some abstracted elements that tell about Africa, using mixed media collage medium. After her graduation up to now Ruth's primary theme collage works consisted magazines only, or magazines with a bit of color papers or a mixed media using the previous materials in combination with pencil colored, pen marked, acrylic painted etc. papers prepared beforehand, also doing the coloring, marking, etc. processes on the already composed and attached collages whenever she thinks necessary.