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.

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 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. They are interested in the significance of place, the materiality of clay, and the relationship between the body, art, and nature.

Rubes holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury and has exhibited in Ōtautahi/Christchurch as well as Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. In 2025 they undertook a three-month artist in residence at Auckland Studio Potters, and were awarded third place in the Estuary Art and Ecology Awards in 2026.

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