Ruby Joy Eade
'i can feel your pain and your feelings'
Exhibition: 6th-23rd June 2014

Artist statement

Finding earnestness and sincerity in an online world where intimate and personal connections seem few and far between.  Feelings of love, loss, hope, desperation, resignation, resentment , vulnerability, confusion. The need for reassurance. The comfort of a reminder that other people feel this way too.  Looking beyond the cynical surface of contemporary society to find moments of poetic and empathetic language lost in a sea of forums, tweets and status updates. The 'realness' of a moment never intended to be art.

Radio New Zealand interview with Sonia Sly, 8th June 2014.
Photo: Ruby Joy Eade, 'i can feel your pain and your feelings', ceramic art installation, Gilberd Marriott Gallery, Wellington New Zealand, June 2014
Photo: Ruby Joy Eade
'i can feel your pain and your feelings'
Photo: Ruby Joy Eade
Artist info

Ruby Joy Eade is currently in her fourth year of a BFA (Hons) at Whiti o Rehua, School of Art, Massey University. Her practice spans various mediums including printed matter, object based installation, photography, drawing and public intervention.

Below: click on thumbnails for larger photos of installation.
'i can feel your pain and your feelings'
Photo: Ruby Joy Eade