About RPJ Ceramics & Art

Rubee 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. Rubee 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, Rubee 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 Rubee uses handbuilding for its immediacy and intuitiveness. Rubee 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 Rubee’s past exhibitions and see images here.