Ruby Donohoe

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 | .au This program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

afterbodies, by Ruby Donohoe and Camille Therese, 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. 25 April | 6pm - 9pm @camille__therese x @rubybridgetdonohoe RSVP 🔗 in bio The program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

afterbodies, by Ruby Donohoe and Camille Therese, 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. 25 April | 6pm - 9pm @camille__therese x @rubybridgetdonohoe RSVP 🔗 in bio The program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

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

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

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

At DEMO 3/4 activations begin in the shadows. Submerse yourself in performances from Naomi Blacklock, Yvette Ofa Agapow, and Ruby Donohoe. Exclusive to DEMO 3/4, Naomi Blacklock @naomiblacklock will perform ‘Eating Heaven’ live for the first time. Through a visceral interplay of breathing, inhaled and exhaled screams, and drumming, ‘Eating Heaven’ reimagines the Hindu myth of Rahu and Ketu, two halves of a severed demon eternally consuming the sun and moon. Yvette Ofa Agapow @yvettethed0ll will create an assemblage of kinetic sound sculptures, generating automatic music across the Institute of Modern Art galleries. This sprawling installation will be an intimate sonic space where un-amplified sculptures perform subtle compositions. Ruby Donohoe @rubybridgetdonohoe works with choreography as a mode of critical inquiry into the body’s political, sensory, and relational capacities. At DEMO 3/4 Donohoe will perform a solo shared between two thinking ends in the Brunswick St Windows, with creatureliness leaking from every fold. Friday 21 November 5:30-9:30pm Free, all welcome. Full details and tickets via link in bio. DEMO is presented by Outer Space and the Institute of Modern Art, supported by the Queensland Government through @artsqueensland .

🌪️🌪️Demo 3/4 | @instituteofmodernart x @outerspace.brisbane | Up late at @judithwrightcentre | 21 Nov 🌪️🌪️ s p l i t e n d s A solo shared between two thinking ends. Creatureliness leaking from every fold. There is a person. Or maybe not a person. Maybe a proposition. An ancestor. A meme. They have two heads — one upright, listening to the future; the other hanging between their legs, heavy and dreaming backwards. Both heads are cloaked in long platinum wigs. Their faces obscured. But they’re watching. With their skin. With their sweat. With their inconvenience. They wear a plush brown sweatsuit. It’s practical. It’s suspicious. It’s ugly enough to be honest. Unremarkable, almost laughable, except that it somehow becomes sacred. Like finding a relic in the pocket of something forgotten. Their body is a soft monument: not heroic, but present. Not symbolic, but stubborn. A soft myth in motion, writhing through an uncanny terrain of soft shadow and ambient hush. A duet with no other. A solo shared between two thinking ends. Creatureliness leaking from every fold.

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.

vanishing points

🔈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).

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.