Ruby Brown 'Where Water Fills'

Ruby Brown
Where Water Fills
1 May - 7 June 2025
Opening 5.30 - 7.30 Thursday 1 May 2025

Ruby Brown (b.1986 Ōtepoti, Aotearoa) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist of Māori (Ngāpuhi) and Pākehā (Scottish and Danish) heritage. Brown's work explores our bodily experience of and connection to the world. Working at the intersection of sculpture and painting, Brown frequently turns to found and everyday materials that invite touch and movement, in particular vintage fabrics and acrylic polymer gap filler. She manipulates the surface of her works through ripping, collage, muting and veiling. Her mark making is intuitive – scraping, brushing, carving – and responsive to the specificity of the materials at hand. In Where Water Fills, Brown continues her exploration of an innate connection between humans and water through the manipulation of plush textiles.

Brown has held solo exhibitions at galleries including LON Gallery (2023), CAVES x CRAFT Contemporary (2023), CAVES Gallery (2021), Bus Projects (2019), c3 Contemporary Art Space (2019) and Rubicon ARI (2014). She has participated in group exhibitions at galleries including Egg & Dart (2025), Föenander Gallery (2024), Side Gate (2023), Lon Gallery (2022), DAS Boot (2022), Spring1883 Art Fair (2021), Bus Projects (2019), Fort Delta (2017) and Sutton Projects (2017). In 2023 Brown undertook a residency at Correspondences Studios titled ‘He Whakaari Ātārangi: Shadow Play', where she developed new approaches to integrating movement into her practice. Brown holds a Graduate Certificate in Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Education (Visual Art) from the University of Otago.