Dan Bell, Liang Luscombe and Noriko Nakamura

// Opening 6pm, Wednesday 11 June 2014

// Show runs from Thursday 12 June until Saturday 28 June 2014

An exhibition of new works as part of the second iteration of a two-part project by Melbourne-based artists Dan Bell, Liang Luscombe and Noriko Nakamura that was first shown at Dog Park Art Project Space, Christchurch

Dan Bell’s practice involves shifting spatial energies through an ongoing process of fermentation and flux. Utilising alchemic combination of transmutational materials, with outcomes including interventions, sculpture, installation and wearable works. Recent projects include Double Bind: Polysidium glutamate (Lite) at Studio 6, Gertrude Contemporary, Vic; Brimming dissolution, buoyant expenditure at Dog Park Projects, Christchurch; Proliferation beyond solutions, Brunswick Lakes projects, Vic; Alluvial Atomiser at Rice and Beans, Dunedin, and Pwdree Slurr at Y3K gallery, Vic. Bell completed a Bachelour of Visual Arts Sculpture from The Australian National University in 2007.

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Liang Luscombe lives and works in Melbourne. Liang Luscombe’s practice is loosely located within painting and in recent work she expanded this to include three-dimensional and spatial qualities that incorporate furniture making, wall painting and wall works. These objects – part-sculpture, part-prop, part-painting – often use existing artworks or design objects to play with painting’s ability to be functional or look to specific locations as their starting point. In 2013, Luscombe was a recipient of the Australia Council British School at Rome Residency. During 2012 Luscombe was the sub-editor of Un Magazine, Volume 6.  In 2011, Luscombe undertook a studio residency at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Non in Casa, 159 Blyth Street, Melbourne, 2013; Bauhaus Fisher Price, TCB artinc., Melbourne, 2012; String Strung Out, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2011. Recent group exhibitions include: Dear Masato, all at once, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2014;brimming dissolution, buoyant expenditure, Dog Park, Christchurch, 2013; Synonyms for sincerity, Alaska Projects, Sydney, 2013; Please be quiet,  The British School in Rome, Rome, 2013; Signature Style, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Navel Gazing, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2013; Menage a Trois, XYZ Collective, Tokyo, 2012; Fresh Paint, Sutton Project Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Impossible Objects, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011.

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Noriko Nakamura completed a Fine Art Foundation Diploma at Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London, before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011. Nakamura experiments with the transformational potential of materials in order to explore the relationship that exists between humans and the material world. She has presented solo exhibitions at Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Rearview; and Seventh Gallery. Her work has also been exhibited at ICU, Castlemaine; Murray White Room, Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria Studio, Melbourne; and TCB art inc, Melbourne. She has received Australian Council ArtStart grant in 2012, Substation art prize and Maude Glover Fleay Award.

A Fridge Full of Condiments

// Opening 6pm, Wednesday 21 May 2014*

// Show runs from Thursday 22 May until Saturday 10 June 2014

*NB, the time in the email was incorrect — the opening is indeed Wed. 21 May

Robbie Fraser 1979 – (Ngati Porou ki Hauraki) works and resides in Auckland, New Zealand. He graduated from AUT University with a Masters in Art & Design in 2013 and is a founding member of FERARI, an artists collective and artist run space based in Auckland. His recent shows include A Sickman Cometh with Anthony Cribb at FERARI (2012), Lost in A Dream (2012), a group show at Snakepit, andFERARI/WENDYLS (2013), a group show at Wendyl’s Green Goddess.

cues

// Opening 6pm, Wednesday 23 April 2014
// Show runs from Thursday 24 April until Saturday 10 May 2014

First Floor,

307 K’Road

Auckland

* Entrance on Samoa House Lane

On Wednesday 23 April, RM will open the door to its new gallery space with cues, the latest in a series of collaborations between Nell May and Blaine Western.

We are now located on the first floor of the Mazuran Building, at 307 Karangahape Road—right next door to where we’ve been for the last five years. The new gallery shares many of the qualities that we enjoyed about our old space—the modernist mix of concrete, glass and a large open room, a wall of windows, plenty of natural light, a retreat from the chaos of K’Rd and a view of the garden and fale at Samoa House. The new space also gives us the opportunity to open up some new directions for the gallery. In particular, we now have a dedicated archive and research space, which will host a number of long-term projects in the coming year.

During the next few weeks RM will be closed as we move out of our current space and set up the gallery next door at 297 Karangahape Road.

In June 2009 Akiko Diegel and Asumi Mizuo had our very first exhibition at 295 Karangahape Road. And, though it was completely unforeseen when we were planning this show, we are moving again, and Akiko has had the very last show at our current space.

As of next month we will take up occupancy right next door, on the first floor of the Mazuran Building, 297 Karangahape Road, and we will be re-opening in mid-April, with an exhibition by Nell May and Blaine Western.

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In the seventeen years that I have been involved with the gallery,  and across the five spaces we’ve occupied, this has been, my favourite location. With our office table set up next to that wall of windows, it has been a really rewarding and productive space in which to work, and hopefully that has been reflected in the experience of visiting the shows we’ve hosted. When taking on this large empty room we had to rethink what it was we were doing, and how the gallery might contribute to the ecology around us. I have enjoyed seeing what has emerged from these new directions, and feel a great sense of gratitude to the artists we’ve worked with for helping make our time at 295 K’Rd so memorable. We are very glad to still be part of this neighbourhood, moving next door, to a space that shares many of the qualities of the current RM, as well as the scope to open up new possibilities for the gallery.

– Nick

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More details about the new space will be announced at the start of next month. If you’re on our mailing list keep an eye on your email for details about our grand re-opening soon. And if you’re not on our mailing list you can sign up here

the simple bare necessities

// Opens, 6pm Wednesday 26 February 2014

// Show runs Thursday 27 February – Saturday 15 March 2014

“Anxious repetitive smiling” (nothings going to happen)

with Radio Cegeste

// Screening starts 9pm tonight, Thursday 13 February 2014 (doors open 8:45pm)

// At RM, ground floor, 295 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

New, austere video work by RM summer resident Campbell Walker shot in very limited locations in Auckland over the last few weeks. With live transmitted accompaniment from Radio Cegeste aka Sally Ann McIntyre, fresh from touring Australia.

Farewell Drinks

// 7:30pm tonight, Thursday 13 February 2014
// Albert Park, in and amongst the installation for the Lantern Festival (or back at RM if the conditions are no good)

Please join us this evening at 7:30pm in Albert Park where we’ll be having drinks to farewell our five residents.

For the last five weeks RM has played host to five artists, with Campbell living and working alongside New Zealand artists Bridget Rewiti, and Rachel O’Neill, Melbournite Jessie Bullivant and Canadian artist Michelle McGeean.

This residency, which began on 6 January, and runs through until 15 February, is motivated by the informal conversations that surround art practices. It has been a time for finding ways to open up research and thinking to others; creating a space where we might eat and think and talk together. The artists were provided with an apartment, and the gallery was turned into a shared-studio, and a weekly scheduled of events was developed to help introduce the residents to different sides of Auckland.

RM is currently closed for summer. Or at least, the gallery is closed, and the space converted into a studio for the

Inaugural RM International Residency Programme.

After the success of our annual summer studio program, RM is very excited to be hosting its first international residency — bringing five artists together, providing them with an apartment and the use of our space as a studio. This is a residency that is motivated by the informal conversations that surround art practices. It is a time for finding ways to open up research and thinking to others; creating a space where we might eat and think and talk together. From 6 January until 15 February 2014 we will be hosting the following five artists:

Bridget Reweti (NZ)

Campbell Walker (NZ)

Jessie Bullivant (Australia)

Michelle McGeean (Canada)

Rachel O’Neill (NZ)

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Lovesong Lagoon

// 6pm Friday 13 December 2013

Intense Mystical Feeling (Lucy McMillan & Tahi Moore) will perform

from Unavailable Dimensions at 6pm

// Exhibition runs from Sat. 14 December until Sat. 21 December 2013

Seaweed on the ocean floor, pulled by tides;
Images of things.
To catalogue every whim.
Transparent sheet – of flesh colour or a smoked glass windowpane– to look out of but not in
Paper – sitting behind other papers – looking out at us and onto
the backs of each other’s heads
3 acorns, a feather and a rock – that I held while walking – they never knew I’d bring them here
A thin golden sheet – to keep the wall warm
They can tell us what they are
Last July’s lavender – is a path wrapping around a fragrant field
Oil tipped onto porous paper – a rubbing of my table – excavating earth’s skin
Glue and wood – a painted body in a frame
Blue sand on grey crepe – material movement – a river
Paint on red velvet sheet – pillow on a bed
Clear plastic – to see things through – the room you stand in
We’re standing in the sea

10 paintings

&

3 songs