REBEKAH RASMUSSEN
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    • Pretty/'F'ugly? @Green St Gallery 2018.
    • It was past your bed time but we stayed up late. @Play_station Gallery. 2018
    • A material thing 2014 @30 upstairs
    • Graphite works
  • Writing
    • A farewell and recap of our 6th artist in residence Rebekah Rasmussen’s time here at 30upstairs
    • 'Instead', a short story by Pip.
    • Do not touch the art.
    • Notes on a puddle.
    • Poem by Laila
    • A material thing opens.
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Accompanying Text for Pretty/’F’ulgy?
 
In our house we paint with our fingers and squeeze gloop in our hands. We use colours. Red. Blue. Yellow. And we mix. Sometimes there is more water than there is paint. But we use sponges and paper to soak it all up. This is how we play. It’s spontaneous, exploratory, sensory and fun.
But it can get messy. I feel the urge to tidy up as we go, to put in place a system, some order, even when I’m trying not too.
 
My practice is processed based and strongly influenced by my experience as a mother with two young children. Using domestic materials (sometimes associated with kids craft’s or activity’s) and often alongside my children, I find myself playing. I’m curious to see where a child and adult’s creativity intersect, and how notions of aesthetics, the cerebral and intuitive respond within this process.
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