Ruby Brown — 'Tail End' Textile Wall Artwork (2025)

'Tail End' is an artwork by Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist Ruby Brown and forms part of Salon Hang, a vitrine exhibition showcasing eight female and non-binary artists who challenge the traditional role of the frame in Western art.

Ruby's practice explores bodily experience and connection to the world around us, informed by her interest in the dynamics of chaos and order, and the interplay between revealing and concealing. 

"I collect objects and materials that provoke a visceral response. Lately, I’ve been exploring rip as line as a collage technique — tearing fabric, frazzling edges, splitting weaves, and pulling threads. The rip becomes a pathway through the surface. Acrylic gap filler smothers and becomes skin-like, muting imagery like a veil.

My sculptures and relief works emerge through repetitive actions and intuitive mark-making: wrapping, stacking, scraping, carving. Surfaces hold traces of sensation and material history, evoking responses that are felt in the body." 

- Ruby Brown

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Ruby Brown is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of sensation and our bodily connection to the world. Born in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, Ruby grew up in a family of painters and makers. She has Ngāpuhi roots alongside Scottish and Danish heritage. Ruby now resides on Wurundjeri land and makes work from her home-based studio. 

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Salon Hang

Vitrine

June 19 - July 26, 2025 

Salon Hang brings together eight female and non-binary artists who challenge the traditional role of the frame in Western art. Working across a range of craft practices, each artist has reimagined the frame, not as a boundary, but as a space for experimentation and creative possibility.

As well as somewhere to display paintings, the “salon” was a place where women came together to educate themselves. Salon Hang aims to connect women from various artistic backgrounds, using the frame and craftwork as symbols for collective solidarity.

Georgia Anson, Ruby Brown, Lauren Cameron, Georgina Proud, Samantha Seary, Madeleine Thornton-Smith, Kate Tucker and Jasminka Ward-Matievic

Curated by Madeleine Thorton-Smith

Learn more here

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Material: Found textile, acrylic polymer gap filler, acrylic mediums and adhesive on board

Dimensions: Approx. 27 x 23.5 cm

Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.