Karenne Rees romps The Rumpus Room

Karenne Rees

Salt Trace

Saturday April 27,  2013 -  5pm 'till 8ish

Karenne Rees is going to present the beginnings of new body of work she began while camping at Lake Becking in the Mallee region over the Easter break. This new work has been made via direct contact between sheets of graphic art film and the surface of the salt lake. The evocative colours produced by the exposure of the film is reminiscent of aerial photographs. The visible trace of the salt forms a texture and patina on the surface of the film.

Karenne is a photo media artist who has been exhibiting for ten years. Her practice is primarily focused on recording and developing the latent image on film; a medium she finds evocative and necessary for her practice.  Contemporizing history, connectedness to place and the recording of life experiences have influenced her earlier work. 

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Romped 2

Ashlee Laing | Wight Moratoria | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Some words regarding the second romp can be found by clicking here 

Ashlee Laing | Wight Moratoria | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Ashlee Laing | Wight Moratoria | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Ashlee Laing | Wight Moratoria | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Ashlee Laing | Wight Moratoria | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Ashlee Laing | Wight Moratoria (variation) | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Ashlee Laing romps The Rumpus Room

Ashlee Laing 

Wight Moratoria

 

Saturday March 2,  2013  -  5pm 'till 8ish

Ashlee Laing will romp about in Melbourne's Western Suburbs garage with a new installation, made just for The Rumpus Room, that references current sociopolitical rhetoric. Ashlee is interested in the placement and location of the individual, and of the collective, within the construction of sociocultural spaces. In this new work he confronts the audience with the ingrained cultural fear and bigotry that seems deeply etched into the Australian landscape, constitution and psyche.

Romped I

Paula Binnie | New Video | 2 channel video + sound | 2013

For the low down on our first ever romp in The Rumpus Room have a squizz here.

Paula Binnie | New Video | 2 channel video + sound | 2013

Shane shuttin' up the garden

Fairy-light twirling

Paula Binnie romps The Rumpus Room

Paula Binnie
New Video

Saturday January 19, 2013 -  5pm 'till 8ish

Paula Binnie is our first romper to romp out The Rumpus Room in Melbourne's Western Suburbs. Paula will be showing new video work that captures observations and sequences of suburban and domestic lifestyles. Through editing and audio techniques, Paula re-presents the panem et circenses of contemporary domestic existence as cryptic narratives, replacing appeasement with inquietude.

Garage > Rumpus > < Studio

A few photographs of the conversion in progress. The Rumpus Room has been "designed" so that it can be quickly converted back to the studio after events.

The Front - Roller door and side door access

Shane holding up The Rumpus Room sign & suspension wall (in progress)

Paula painting the brick wall - we hope to be able to build a MDF wall over this wall soon

Main view

My favorite feature of The Rumpus Room

Other elements to play with at The Rumpus Room