Pippa Makgill romps The Rumpus Room

 

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.