by Michelle Rumney | Jul 7, 2018
Re-Making Maps of the Mind Exhibition Saturday 7th July – Tuesday 14th August 2018 Medieval and Modern Journeys In making this artwork for St Thomas Way, artist-in-residence Michelle Rumney has been exploring the medieval practice of ‘Measuring to the Saint’. In...
by Michelle Rumney | Nov 10, 2017
Arts by the Sea Festival Bournemouth, Dorset 14 -21 October 2017 Test for Plastic-Pathways-ArtsByTheSea-2017-195805sandcastle bucket Plastic Pathways Beach labyrinth on the sand for Arts by the Sea festival by artist Michelle Rumneyplastic bottle and sandcastle of...
by Michelle Rumney | Sep 19, 2017
AiR: Artist in Residency Project In April 2017, I was given the opportunity to go somewhere new and really explore it visually – a 2-month Arts Residency project for Taunton Deane Borough Council, in conjunction with ArtsTaunton. Given my recent work, mapping...
by Michelle Rumney | Sep 1, 2017
Labyrinthine Pairs In the summer of 2017, I teamed up with fellow Taunton artist-in-residence, Christopher Jelley, and we created two huge grass labyrinths – one 20m and the other 10m – the largest labyrinths I’ve worked on to date. In fact, the 20m...
by Michelle Rumney | Feb 23, 2016
The experiment While hanging the exhibition ‘Are we there yet? Mapping the Labyrinth’ at Lighthouse in Poole, I decided to leave one piece of work untitled and invite visitors to name it instead. I really wanted them to look again at the work and get...
by Michelle Rumney | Jan 24, 2016
Since I learnt to drive, I’ve always carried a road atlas in the car, even though I rarely use one these days. Certain pages would with use get more dogeared, marked and worn than others – unless you’re a truck driver you probably don’t use all...
by Michelle Rumney | Jan 24, 2016
A gorgeous world map in an old National Geographic Atlas – hopelessly out of date, but so full of colour and potential. I followed the folds in the paper with pink threads and navigated my way around the globe by simply sewing along the lines of latitude, of...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 3, 2015
A continuation of a slight obsession with labyrinths and mazes, this collection of work was selected for inclusion in a small monograph booklet for an exhibition in Austria in 2013 (download it below): A true labyrinth is distinct from a maze because there is only one...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 3, 2015
7 Habits This series of large-scale collages began with a single impulse – I wanted to try to make sense of the information in a book I was reading. Picking through the content of this particular book (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – a New York Times...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 3, 2015
This series started simply with a suggestion to speed up my working processes. Grinding pigments, mixing them with oils and following a laborious layering process was beautiful in its own way, but took weeks to realise. Why not use something else as your...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 2, 2015
Transforming the Light Andalucia Living in Andalucia for 7 years meant exposure to sunlight for over 300 days per year. Often this was blistering, squinting light – the type that etches frown lines deep into the skin on your face. It was brutal. These paintings...
