Pippa Makgill
Bad Boy Bubby's Beef
Saturday May 25th 2013 - 5pm 'till 8ish
Bad
Boy Bubby's Beef works responsively to the garage space that is the
Rumpus Room. Since completing my Masters two years ago, my small dark
brick garage in Brunswick has been my studio space. Between some
mattresses, white ware and rubbish I sit and toil with abstract ideas.
Caught up in the process I sometimes come running out of the garage when
I realise I should have used the spray paint/expanding foam in a well
ventilated area. But I always return. It is my private and introverted
space where I feel free to fail. I often think of the character Bubby,
poking, hissing, and antagonising his cat. Something resonates.
I
approach the exhibition at The Rumpus Room with great relief. The
Rumpus Room is a space I know, with its damp, florescent, quietness
inviting me and letting me sit with my proverbial skrink-wrapped cat.
Pippa
Makgill completed her MFA by Research at Monash in 2011. Her thesis
was titled 'Fabricated Environments: a studio investigation into
Sculptural material, space and encounter'. He work addresses the idea
of shifting materiality and the presence of the 'formless' in
sculpture. Within her work there is an extended consideration to the
materiality of site and the immerse space that encounter brings. Pippa
complete her undergrad at Elam School of Fine Arts and has exhibited
throughout New Zealand and Australian ARI's. Her most recent exhibition
was at Mr Kitly last year.
