salt crusted w/ Rubes Prattley-Jones and Taarn Scott: 4 September, 2026

Rubes Prattley-Jones is a Tāmaki-based artist, primarily working in ceramics, found objects, and natural materials. Their queer identity sits at the forefront, as their practice explores environments surrounding bodies of water, positioning places with the body and materiality. Taarn Scott is a multidisciplinary artist from Ōtepoti, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their practice explores ideas around habitat, environmental concerns, and geographical histories, creating these tactile objects and forms informed by ornamentation and jewellery. Their collaborative exhibition currently on at Plomacy Gallery, salt crusted , places Scott and Prattley-Jones’ work in a beautiful dialogue around connection, place, and materiality. Developed out of six-weeks of trips to the Tāmaki Estuary, the exhibition draws on the artists’ shared love of collective making and beach fossicking – a love letter to searching, rummaging, and sifting to find rich natural material or nuggets of detritus to bring into their work. Here, the beach is not only the site of focus, but a third collaborator – its materials brought into form; its ridges and textures moulded and etched into new surfaces. Sof caught up with Rubes and Taarn about the show and their overall practices.