Sunday, 26 May 2013

Romped 4

Pippa Makgill | Bad Boy Bubby's Beef | Instatalltion view

For words about Pippa's romp by Liz Lacey click here

Pippa Makgill | Bad Boy Bubby's Beef | Detail

Pippa Makgill | Bad Boy Bubby's Beef | Installation view

Pippa Makgill | Bad Boy Bubby's Beef | Detail

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

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.

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Romped 3

Karenne Rees | Salt Trace | Installation view

A review of Karenne's romp by Kate Winterton can be found here

Karenne Rees | Salt Trace | Installation view

Karenne Rees | Salt Trace | detail

Thursday, 11 April 2013

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.

Saturday, 30 March 2013

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 (variation) | Digital C type photograph, temporary fencing + galvanized iron

Sunday, 17 February 2013

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.

Friday, 25 January 2013

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.