02 May – 30 July 2023

Tea Party in the Mayoral Garden is a mixed media artwork by Ruth Downes in which 40 tea cups and saucers are displayed together as a ‘tea partea’.

Ruth's work was one of 30 finalists in the inaugural National Sculpture Prize at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in 2001. It also won the People’s Choice Award at the NGA and went on to tour to the US and regional Australian galleries over the following 10 years.

Curator: Ruth Downes