Intervals - a solo exhibition of recent work
at Railway Street Gallery & Studios
Intervals refers to the spaces between things: between light and shadow, inside and outside, presence and absence, certainty and ambiguity. These in-between moments form the foundation of Ruth Phipps body of work.
Working from observation as well as memory, Ruth has used painting to transform familiar easily overlooked spaces into images that sit between the recognisable and the imagined. Light plays a central role in the work, bringing certain surfaces into focus while allowing others to remain partially hidden. Reflections, shadows, and changing viewpoints create moments of uncertainty, inviting us to pay closer attention. We are invited to reconsider our own surroundings and the act of looking itself. It proposes that meaning is not always fixed or immediate, but can be found in what unfolds gradually—in the spaces between what is revealed and what remains unseen - read more
Past Events:
Whitecliffe School of Fine Arts Postgraduate Exhibition, November 2025.
Group Show, Studio to Wall II, Ponsonby, August 2025.
Joint Exhibition, When Shadows Fall, with Rob Foote, Dunedin. July 2024
