Ruby 嫦潔 White—Pieces of

Ruby 嫦潔 White—Pieces of (extended dates)

Concentrating on rediscovering and repurposing traditional clay working techniques to create functional ceramic cookers White combines old and new technologies to "look with apprehension and hope toward climate change and our collective future."

During the exhibition selected works will be activated through cook-ups and sharing food. The opening event will feature skewers grilled on the cookers and preserves made by White with locally-sourced ingredients.

Pieces of is an outcome of White’s research in Pōneke Wellington as the 2021 Enjoy Summer Artist in Residence at the Rita Angus Cottage, an opportunity supported by Enjoy with Creative New Zealand Arts Council Toi Aotearoa and the Thorndon Trust.

As always, we're grateful to Fortune Favours for providing beer for this event.

About The Artist
Ruby 嫦潔 White is an artist who works predominantly with food and ceramics. She uses home cooked and handmade modes of production to interpret and explore culture as commodity, in relation to labour and human evolution.

White graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2014. From 2014-18 she created a series of food pop-ups under the pseudonym 'Miss Changy'. White completed a Diploma in Ceramic Arts at Otago Polytechnic in 2020. As a person of mixed (and alienated) diaspora White works with the idea of inherited memory and uses food to understand and take ownership of her Chinese-Malaysian maternal heritage.