About

Rubes Prattley-Jones (they/them) is a queer artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland whose sculptural practice ranges across various mediums including ceramics and drawing, incorporating natural found-materials such as wild clay, sediment, and earth pigment. Rubes holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury and is a member of MUD Studios.

Interpreting the natural world through their artistic practice, Rubes creates work influenced by water and the environments that surround bodies of water. Finding inspiration in the forms and textures found in nature, sand, shells, driftwood, rocks, things that have been carved by water, sea creatures or ancient geological processes. 

In their ceramics Rubes uses hand-building for its immediacy and intuitiveness. Rubes is interested in the significance of place, the materiality of clay, and the relationship between the body, art, and nature.

Find out more about Rubes’s past exhibitions and see images here.