About/contact
Ruby Moana Thornley Wilkinson is a female artist operating in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
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Exhibition History
2021
(From) Side to Side - 28th April – 15th May
MEANWHILE GALLERY - 99/2 Willis Street, Wellington Central.
(From) Side to Side is an exhibition that explores the intriguing nature of shared experience. By using painting and drawing as a tool, Ruby Moana Thornley Wilkinson and Christian Dimick explore how the recollection of a certain time and place can differ drastically between individual perspectives.
Working alongside each other, information is gradually and unconsciously collected in the form of osmosis. In an attempt to disrupt the traditional languages and ideas within painting, that often seem to stem from the individual, the two artists have made a transaction, handing over their personal recollections of different shared experiences, in order to stimulate the creation of new works.
Alongside their exhibition with MEANWHILE, Ruby and Christian have created a publication, ‘(From) Side to Side’, which will be available to visitors at the gallery. The process of creating this publication required Ruby and Christian to interview three different pairs of people. Here, the pairs were asked to agree on a moment, time or place they have occupied together, and share their separate interpretations of this memory. In undertaking this process, Ruby and Christian set out to explore the notion of individual recollection within shared memory, and ultimately create work with that in mind.
(A)part - 30th September - 10th October.
JHANA MILLERS GALLERY
Ruby Wilkinson and Christian Dimick are emerging artists based in Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington, and are completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) programme at Toi Rauwhārangi, College of Creative Arts, Massey University. They predominantly work in the field of painting, but occasionally employ other mediums — writing, drawing, sound and photography.
Their exhibition (a)part explores how works are created and informed through the closeness of a shared studio and intimate relationship. As a means of making work, they embrace basic gestures, creating a symbiotic pictorial conversation. Form and narrative develop naturally, thoughts rise and fall, allowing the paintings to be the result of a gradual process of reflection and response.
2020
Simple cells - 24th November – 30th November
TWENTYSIX GALLERY - 26 Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington.
Group Show
A collective exhibition of visual art and spoken word exploring the concept of the body in a 21st century post lockdown world; From memories, red wine fuelled mediations to pesticidal compositions.
Stasis Journal Publication - 27th May 2020
https://www.stasisjournal.com/ruby-wilkinson
Ruby Moana Thornley Wilkinson is a Wellington artist who draws from experiences and memories. Drawing from a natural palette she creates marks that dictate conversation that weave between thought abstractions and narrative. This particular series (Voice) was created during the COVID-19 level 4 period, via voice recordings from others whom were asked to describe a specific memory or experience. Working from this audio Ruby created interpretative abstract drawings.