About RPJ Ceramics & Art

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 handbuilding for its immediacy and intuitiveness. Rubes is interested in the significance of place, the materiality of clay, and the intimate physical relationship between their body, their art, and nature.

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