About

The exhibition A Void, Now Filled is the culmination of an Auckland Studio Potters artist residency from May to July 2025. Rubee’s approach was to focus on experimentation and creative play, resulting in an exploration of texture sourced directly from found objects in their surroundings. Impressions of natural materials, such as rocks and wood, as well as naturally eroded human-made items like chunks of concrete and rusty metal, were created by pressing soft clay directly onto the objects.

The materials used to make the impressions came into Rubee’s focus as a result of their repeated presence in these spaces. A familiarization of these places changed their relationship to them, they hold a new meaning, making the everyday significant. These works record a sense of place.

In this body of work Rubee focused on the texture of objects, the individual curves, points and indentations. The vessels created capture an imprint of the space around the objects, the void left between the parts that were once, but are no longer there. Pushing against the objects the clay calls to the actions that created them, then releases as a record.

Read the full artist statement here.

Works

A Void, Now Filled: stoneware clay, Auckland Studio Potters glazes, sea glass and various found sediment, dimensions variable