// Opening Wednesday 26 August 2015, 6pm
After the Shift
// Thursday 27 August – Saturday 12 September 2015
Aug
21
Peace of mind
// Saturday 8 – Saturday 22 August 2015
// Opening Friday 7 August, 6pm
Peace of mind is a collection of ideas around the artists position today, in taking-on political and social responsibilities in art. Kieren and Holly use exchanges between themselves and their practices, to reveal and rupture what they perceive as restrictive notions of negotiating artistic practice and intent. Their aim to allow conceptual collaboration to supersede a singular conversation, sees the pair conceive individual outcomes to show in the combined light of this sphere of exchange and accumulation. The focus on communication and mediation between the artists alongside the combination of processes undertaken, results in a unique logic to trust in and engage with for the artists and audience alike.
Peace of mind is accompanied by text written for the show by Holly Russell, an artist and writer from Melbourne.
Kieren Seymour is currently undertaking his Honours in Fine Art at RMIT in Melbourne. He studied sculpture at Zurcher Hochschule De Kunst (Zhdk) in Zurich. Kieren’s practice is currently focused on image production be it through video or digital drawings made with a stylus in photoshop. These images work through and around the politics of economics, death and housing. Kieren has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally.
Holly Willson is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, 2007. Working with a combination of processes, including sculpture, drawing, sound and video, her work often follows an enquiry into self-reflexive relationships in visual communication, founded in examples of every day encounters and exchange. Holly was a director of the artist run initiative Newcall Gallery in Auckland between 2008-2010.
Jul
16
A Better Surface Held Back
// Opening 6pm Friday 17 July 2015
// Saturday 18 July – Saturday 1 August 2015
Jun
27
A Quick Countdown to Set the Tempo
// Opening 6pm Wednesday 1 July 2015
// Thursday 2 July – Saturday 11 July 2015
A Quick Countdown to Set the Tempo comprises a selection of conceptually-inflected sculptures by Lance Pearce, alongside an exhibition text by Claire Duncan.
Using words and things as language, Lance Pearce’s seemingly austere works explore the affective potential for objects to convey meaning. Historical contextualising of apparently familiar objects, removed from their place and function, create a simple narrative sustained by numerous possible associations. Referring to both the visible and imperceptible, Pearce’s works explore representation’s inscription in the tangible present.
Jun
20
RM is closed whilst some of our upcoming artists undertake installation tests.
Should you wish to visit Jonathan Ranking and Sarah Rankin’s Island Project during this time please contact us so we can organise a time.
Join us for our next show, with Lance Pearce, opening on Wed 1 July
May
17
FREEDOM CABBAGE: A bacterial collaboration
Nurturance on the other hand…
The time it takes to grow something…
BORING.– After Birth, by Elisa Albert
The art of fermentation is the art of the slow transformation: a quiet daily observation, an intermittent checking in, a leaving be. The art of fermentation is the antithesis of the fast food lifestyle we know and love.
May
03
Magazine Launch
// Friday 8 May 2015, 6pm
Potroast is an annual literary and visual media ‘zine with a focus on the experimental and the exploratory.
We’ll celebrate the launch of the new issue with drinks and some readings from some of the Auckland based contributors including Iain Britton, Tony Green, Allison Li, and David Taylor, as well as a short presentation from Alex Raichev on an experimental poetry game ‘Markov Poetry’ introduced in the ‘zine.
// Saturday 2 May 2015, 3pm
In 2014 Xin Cheng went to Cambodia for the second time, to do the Pisaot experimental arts residency hosted by the artist-run-space Sa Sa Art Projects in Phnom Penh. The experience was no less than mind-blowing. This Saturday she would like to share some of the adventures in researching makeshift creations and hosting surprising workshops with junk, and present a selection of documentaries made by the youths of the Aziza Community School, in the iconic White Building, where she lived for six weeks over the residency.
This gathering is part of makeshifting Cambodia & Aotearoa, a research project from Xin Cheng, generously supported by Asia New Zealand & Sa Sa Art Projects
Silian Rail
// Opening Wednesday 29 April, 6pm // Exhibition runs until Saturday 16 May 2015
RM presents Silian Rail, a conceptually driven painting project by Matt Henry and Timothy Chapman. Showcasing a playful rivalry, the exhibition documents a period of conversation and production, which considers the notion of painting and the materials of its production within a hierarchical and semiotic framework. Exploring surface through the structure of painting, Chapman’s works document a sculptural fabrication process. Setting out to cast a stretched canvas in woven composites, various preparations and experiments are presented as objects in their own right. Similarly Henry’s works reproduce or frame the reductive notion of painting as object and material. Executed in a perfunctory manner the chosen materials invite a conversation that is at once prosaic and poetic.
