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Ruby Donohoe

@rubybridgetdonohoe

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Artist + Performance Maker
@in_ari Co-Director
Kabi Kabi Country

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knots. knots. knots.
a solo practice in the lounge room from last year by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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3 months ago

Also, just like
when you are a person
who has a body that changes
so often,
you know change
in this really
intimate way
like, you know change as gradual
you know change can be instant
it can be
reversed

And I think
it’s taken me
a long while
to feel this way
about that knowledge
But it’s actually
a real political gift

And I think
I’m just starting
to be fed
by that idea

afterbodies | @in_ari | The Old Lock Up, Kabi Kabi Country

Split Ends (2026) 🎥 @timothybirch.smithmadden

Interview 🎥 @gdocs.co
📷 @loui_slim

Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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3 months ago

These pieces belong
together.
When I started making,
I was really struck
by them
kind of, being like
these speculative
body parts,
like hip sockets
and joints and
like
hearts unravelled.
And, yeah,
I started
to see so much
of the body in
them and started
to think of them
as, kind of, belonging
to some animal
or version of myself.

But they’re a collection
of works called ‘Join
Me Here Where Things
Are Soft’
And I’ve
been playing around with
how they might melt,
how they might lead
to less
solid states.

And bones are
this really gorgeous thing.
Like I think
when they exit
the body,
we know them
as brittle and
as dead material.
But when they’re in
the body,
they’re so wet,
they’re so dense,
they have so
much relationship with blood,
and they grow.
And are shaped by
pressure,
like how we use
them
And so they start
to be shaped by
their life.

Prior to doing a
lot of like sculptural
work,
my work is mostly
with the body and
in movement
and performance and time.
and
I’ve been really fortunate
to meet clay.
And it’s
one of the most
generous mediums
I’ve ever met
because you
just spend time
with it and
you stay
in touch with it.
And it just….
starts
to give you so,
so much.
And here
they’re kind of leaving
the space
or attracted to,
yeah,
the edges of things.
yeah.

afterbodies | @in_ari | The Old Lock Up, Kabi Kabi Country
🎥 @gdocs.co 📷 @loui_slim
Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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I love her.
First and foremost,
I really love her.
I feel very, like,
affectionate towards her.
She came out
of nowhere
really quickly,
actually.

I built her in my lounge room.

In another way,
she came
from this really sticky
place of….
potentially
this internet era
of censoring
yourself or bringing yourself
back in anticipation of being viewed
and this
pre-emptive
reduction
that can happen.

There’s also very real things,
like getting calls on your personal phone
with warnings from
Council bodies about,
you know,
doing fundraisers
for Palestinian children
and all that kind
of stuff
you know, like,
there’s some very real
things that are, like…

And I think
there’s something interesting in,
like, the moment
before you find
the words for something.
like that precipice

And it’s
quite a potential space.
there’s so much that’s
available
and possible there.

and it’s a fertile place
and it’s a violent place.

and, like,
whether or not
you can get
the words out
or whether they translate
is really interesting
but that
edge point
that landing point
yeah
there’s a lot there

There’s a lot there.

Wanting to get
Words right as well

And that being a
very beautiful instinct and
also, like,
an incomplete instinct.
that can’t be enough.
there
has to be another
‘want’ more than that

There’s an amazing Anne Carson poem about
‘I Should Learn
More About Signs.’
In there,
there’s this mention of
this egg.
there’s this perfect form

And we’ve
been talking
a lot about, like,
these conditions of fascism
that we
find we’ve contributed to
or endured
or whatever.

But
yeah
again, just,
like finding
the right words is
a bit like an
egg,
you know,
like this moment of,
like,
these
perfect conditions
where something might happen.

Yeah,

States
of becoming are
very interesting to me.

🎥 @gdocs.co
📷 @loui_slim

afterbodies | @in_ari | The Old Lock Up, Kabi Kabi Country
Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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TOMORROW | The Old Lock Up | 🔗in bio

An exhibition of chimeric orientation.
afterbodies, by Camille Therese and Ruby Donohoe, is a viscerotropic channel. The slow, instinctive turning of the body toward what it cannot name; a pull that begins beneath language, in the wet grammar of organs. It is the gut leaning before the mind agrees.

An exhibition of chimeric orientation.
Toward shimmering heat, systematic rust, and intimacy
Where desire thickens into direction and the interior finds its way outward.

The exhibition is a feral pull - a speculative present shaped by multiple, even contradictory impulses at once. Part apparition, part residue the works are a beautiful defiant growth in The Old Lock Up- sculpture, textile, video, and installation.

afterbodies operates as a counter-logic to the authoritarian imagination- dissolving fixed identities, interrupting narratives of inevitability, and generating porous symbolic worlds through which alternative social relations can be sensed, rehearsed, and held.

A choreography of almosts, summoning unruly undercurrents as an antidote.

Here the undisciplined grows - like when you leave a potato in the dark in a cupboard and it grows looking for soil and something to stick its roots into, thriving in unlikely conditions.

SPLIT ENDS
Artist x Sound | @rubybridgetdonohoe
Video | @timothybirch.smithmadden
Light | @trav_lane
Assistant Direction | @jamillamc

Find out more about IN | artist run initiative via
@in_ari | www.in-ari.com.au
This program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil taken in The Old Court House by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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5 months ago

There’s a fine line between visibility and overexposure. Thank you @outerspace.brisbane x @instituteofmodernart for the perfect birth place for this work as part of DEMO 3/4.

s p l i t e n d s
A duet with no other.

A solo shared between two thinking ends. A soft myth in motion, writhing through an uncanny terrain of soft shadow and ambient hush. Creatureliness leaking from every fold.

A person. Or maybe not a person. Maybe a proposition. An ancestor. A meme.

DEMO 3/4, Split Ends, Ruby Donohoe, 2025. Judith Wright Arts Centre. Video by Jonathan Almada-Boucadas (PIF Productions) and Photo by Katy Bedford. Courtesy of Outer Space & IMA.

And crowd love from
II. 📷 @kaveryxart
III. 🎥 @slugfive
IX 🎥 @nitgirl taken in Judith Wright Arts Centre by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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9 months ago

WRITE CLUB | Presented by Ruby Donohoe x IN | ARI
Part of the series Studio Tactics for the End of Capital
🔗 in bio | Sunday 28 Dec | 2pm | The Old Lock Up

WRITE CLUB is a one-off workshop by Ruby Donohoe for artists and creatives navigating precarity, constraint, and the practical realities of making work when the budget doesn’t. Part studio laboratory, part writing room, part collective thinking exercise, the workshop offers low-cost, high-ingenuity tactics for sustaining practice in unstable conditions.

Working through embodied prompts, collective writing experiments, and language-based studio scores, participants will explore noticing as a method, misunderstanding as a resource, and voice as material. Writing is approached not as a polished outcome but as residue, sound-mark, theft, sensation, and play—something tasted, spoken, interrupted, and shared. Confusion is welcomed as its own form of clarity, and generosity replaces authorship.

Led by @rubybridgetdonohoe —an interdisciplinary artist whose practice uses choreography and instability as modes of critical inquiry—the workshop draws on interruption, hesitation, and disorientation as generative tools. Attention is given to how words emerge from the body, how language performs in space, and how estrangement can open new conceptual terrain.

This workshop is open to writers and non-writers alike—including artists and creatives with studio practices that involve words, as well as those looking to excavate conceptual ground through language play, collective experimentation, and low-pressure making. No prior writing experience is required, only a willingness to work together, stay curious, and let things remain unresolved.

This initiative was supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with the Queensland Government. @artscoast @sunshinecoastcouncil @artsqueensland by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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10 months ago

Documentation for Vanishing Points commissioned for @_softwash_ 003 At The Water’s Edge

Absolute privilege to work with @grace.dewar @merinda_davies_ x @laurieoxenford and such a massive line up of artists.

And bloody @jamillamc aka Katherine the stage manager from beyond my dreams.

📷 @gdocs.co by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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𝘈𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦 | Ruby Donohoe

𝘝𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘗𝘖𝘐𝘕𝘛𝘚

Map making is a form of prayer-making too.
It says, what was once here can be found again.
What was once here, still exists
And chances are, you can find it again.
And yet…

In the face of a system of errors, a system of eros floods forward

SW_003 – At The Waters Edge
2–5:30PM AEST / QLD
3–6:30PM AEDT / NSW
Saturday 08 November 2025
Free – all welcome!

RSVP at the link in our bio.

@rubybridgetdonohoe

Bundjalung Country
Tweed Regional Museum Learning Site
230 Kennedy Dr, Tweed Heads West

softwash is an artist-led program of live and experimental art, workshops and a reading club. Hosted on Bundjalung Country, where Terranora and Cobaki creeks meet, softwash is reimagining public parklands as a place for artists and community to gather, share and make meaning together. taken in Tweed Museum Park, Kennedy Drive by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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a year ago

vanishing points by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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a year ago

🔈Tryna shake loose the threads of a new idea in a tight frame. Playing with the transiting body in perpetual loops; levers, hinges, distractions, collapses, x the unnecessary. At @lantanaspace with @warwickgowphoto (many haircuts ago now). by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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2 years ago

2nd Space, Namba | studio sunlight particles | June 2024| YAK x PROJECT24 Residency Sharing ☄️ Wed 10 July ☄️🔗in bio | This little portrait of Studio 3 was tangentially, lovingly made in the making of YAK and is a homage to all the magic Project24 has made happen over the years. This is the last Project24 Residency Showing before @artscoast announce their new plans. @unregistered_master_builder x I will share the process behind our new project YAK and the great @catjones_artist will also be sharing her residency findings. Come along for announcements and insights.

☄️☄️☄️ Thanks to @shayeket’s trolley for being the star behind the filming of this and thanks to Project24 for all the goodness ☄️☄️☄️

YAK is in development with support from @artscoast FutureNOW, @suncoastartsfoundation and the Regional Arts Development Fund - a partnership between @artsqueensland x @sunshinecoastcouncil to support local arts and culture in Regional Queensland. by @rubybridgetdonohoe

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2 years ago