RACHEL DERUM

SBLA Landscape Design + Rachel Derum were engaged in 2020 by Darebin City Council to design and procure a memorial for Aiia Massarwe, situated within Bundoora Park.

Upon being engaged to deliver this incredibly special project for Aiia, Rachel and Simone sat at the base of a large river red gum in the middle of Bundoora Park. We grieved Aiia, we didn’t know her but we felt her. We sat and talked about what it is to be a woman and how we can create a place for people to sit, seek solace and community. We spoke with Aiia’s friends and past teachers and most importantly met with her family on the site. For us, this place needed to connect Aiia to her sisters – to show her bright, happy, funny and positive spirit rather than act as a memorial that was tied to a horrendous event – for this does not define Aiia.

We asked ourselves, how it can be a place that represents to all that didn’t know Aiia the true beauty and brightness that was her. How this place can connect women to women, a sisterhood that extends far beyond the site itself.

We learnt that Aiia loved nature, shells, flowers and rainbows – so this led us to the concept of Aia’s meadow – a native meadow with an elevated daisy chain at it’s centre. We saw a way to connect the daisy chain to women - a universal language that most females make at some stage of their lives. The daisy chain is often created in solitude or in a group. We also believed that this concept connected the site to the Community’s beautiful tribute “A flower only” the flower tram that was filled with flowers for Aiia.

‘Brave Blooms’ NGV Melbourne Design Week 2021

Glow Studios, West Melbourne

Curated by Quertier Design, ‘Brave Blooms’ is an immersive installation of art and design, with a focus on sustainable, ethical and healthy design choices that are in harmony with our soul, goals and nature.

Featured Designers and Artists:

Daniel Barbera
Marc Pascal
Biasol Design
Nick Azidis
Fomu
Rachel Derum
Tantri Mustika Ceramics
Sozou Studio
Volker Haug
Candice Perese
Secateur Me Baby
Marta Figuito
Ryan Foote
Heimur Design
Dasa Ceramics
Eun Ceramics
Curated Spaces
Mockturtle Design
Loom Rugs
David Lee Pereira
Rosesugarlove
Mark Stonerart
Sandra Githinji

EASEL PROJECT COLLECTION ONE will launch at DENFAIR, June 20-22 2019 in Melbourne with a panel discussion between the founders, participating artists and Axolotl occurring on Saturday the 22nd.

The Easel Project is an independent project championing authentic design that has been initiated by Adam Cornish and Marcus Piper.

The pair have curated works by eight internationally recognised creatives who were briefed to push the boundaries of their craft. Each concept was then translated into a physical object in collaboration with Axolotl, who offered up their extensive palette of processes and materials, as well as their expertise in art creation.

ARTISTS:
ADAM CORNISH
ADAM GOODRUM
BELYNDA HENRY
HAM DARROCH
JAIME HAYON
LOUISE OLSEN
MARCUS PIPER
RACHEL DERUM

Each Easel will be available in a limited edition of eight and come signed by the artist with a certificate of authenticity. A percentage of sales will be donated to the Authentic Design Alliance to foster the ongoing development of innovation and leadership within the Australian design community.

For updates and more information on the Easel project click here.

Photography: Tim Robinson

Commissioned label design for Doskiwis Brewing
‘Self Ignition’ Hazy Pale Ale

Doskiwis Brewing and Tap Room
Carretera de Parlavà
22, 17131, Rupià, Girona
Spain

Visit Doskiwis here

ENTRANCING OTHERS

The artists in the exhibition represent a cross section of established and emerging practitioners from around Australia, and everyone has manifested a uniquely intriguing representation of what it is about the animal that entrances.

This exhibition was organised by Rona Green. Of the process she said “It was left up to the artist to decide whether for them this was best done literally, metaphorically, conceptually, symbolically, poetically, or any other-ally.” By investigating the theme via linocut and woodcut, to etching, aquatint and mezzotint, to lithography, screenprint and digital imagery, this selection of works beautifully illustrates the distinct qualities of a range of printmaking techniques.

It is befitting to note that each of the artists has generously donated print number 44/44 from their edition to the Gippsland Art Gallery collection.

The participating artists are Sue Anderson, Andrew Antoniou, GW Bot, Hannah Caprice, Jazmina Cininas, Paul Compton, Rachel Derum, Philip Faulks, Angus Fisher, Rona Green, Rew Hanks, Greg Harrison, John Hart, Bill Hay, Deanna Hitti, Nicola Hooper, Kyoko Imazu, Clare Jackson, Freya Jobbins, Rhi Johnson, Michael Kempson, Julian Laffan, Otto MacPherson, Cassie May, Aaron McLoughlin, Katy Mutton, Angela Nagel, Tim Pauszek, Rujunko Pugh, Michael Reynolds, John Robinson, David Rosengrave, Heather Shimmen, Anne Starling, Georgia Steele, Neale Stratford, Sophia Szilagyi, Julian Twigg, Peter Ward, Allie Webb, and Deborah Williams.

‘Recasting the Shadow’
15 - 25 February 2017

‘These collages honour the connection between all things. The vital force that animates the raven is the same that heats the rock. It rushes through the treetops and it swells inside our chests.

Like the mysterious and creative cycles of nature, collage explores the possibility of an endless reimagining of forms.

Adorned with spears or guided by birds, pulled to the tides or into moonlit woods, I wish to reconnect these figures with the wilderness that surrounds them and to the wild self within. Sitting in silent conversation with the self and the world they know the boundlessness of both.’ Rachel Derum

'Sleeping in the Forest’
New collages by Rachel Derum
1 - 15 November 2019
Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

'For the Deckade'
Celebrating the Skateboard as a Canvas
Curated by Fort Heart
Skate decks thanks to Globe Skateboards

Backwoods Gallery, November 2022

Commissioned artwork for Australian Standfirst, featured in the Australian Financial Review October 2019

‘Through a glass, darkly’
February 5 - March 15 2018
Collins Place, Melbourne, Australia

KAOS FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE

Kranj, Slovenia 2022

Layer house, the house of art, is hosting the festival of contemporary collage KAOS. Every summer the international collage festival displays contemporary collage art in Kranj, Slovenia. With artist-in-residence programmes, regular open calls and collaborations with various art techniques we are reaching out to the collage community worldwide. KAOS (meaning chaos in Slovene) presents fresh approaches to connect collage and other visual media, design and even music. The festival and it’s exhibition takes place every summer and presents one of the main art events in the region. KAOS aims to influence the art aesthetics of the summer happening in Kranj and to profile Kranj as a “city of collage”.

Read more about KAOS Festival here

‘Amongst Us’
18 September – 7 October 2019

The Art Vault
43 Deakin Avenue
Mildura VIC

Amongst Us is a group exhibition of figurative works on paper by Rachel Derum, Philip Faulks, Rona Green, Greg Harrison, Bill Hay, and Deborah Klein.

All are welcome to come along to The Art Vault on Saturday 21 September at 2pm to hear an artists talk about the work on show by Rona, Rachel Derum and Philip Faulks. And then from 3pm – 4pm the artists will be in attendance for the official Amongst Us exhibition opening. Please join us for a celebratory drink whilst viewing some wonderful art.

Amongst Us runs until 7 October 2019.

International Collage Exhibition

6BC Botanical Gardens

New York USA

‘When you think about Feminism, what do you think? - Feminisms 1975-2022’
Group Exhibition
George Paton Gallery
University of Melbourne

‘Feminisms 1975-2022’ looks at the history of feminist engagement in the George Paton Gallery from the 1970s to today, and reviews the nature of the various feminisms that have emerged over the past 50 years and where they sit in today’s climate. This exhibition seeks to engage conversations in a democratic, inclusive way and to encourage a diverse array of voices and responses, demonstrating the plurality of contemporary feminisms rather than imposing a singular narrative.

Off the Kerb is pleased to partake in this action by sponsoring this large-scale exhibition to raise funds for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal’s official partnership with Caritas Ukraine. This charity meets the immediate lifesaving needs of the crisis-affected civilian population in Ukraine and provides early recovery assistance immediately. Their goal is to save and preserve lives, ease suffering and promote self-sufficiency and safety.

We cannot do this without our artist community. This fundraiser exhibition has been made possible by the generosity of Melbourne's art community and consultation with the Association Ukrainians in Victoria . Off the Kerb gallery will be selling all artworks on show and donating 100% proceeds to https://www.ukrainecrisisappeal.org/ so they may continue their important work.

‘Terra Oztralis’
Outre Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
October 5-16  2018

Participating Artists~
Amok Island / Beastman / Bec Smith / Beci Orpin / Bren Luke / Callum Preston / Cam Scale / Cat Rabbit / Courtney Brims / Creature Creature / Dominique Wylestone / Eveline Tarunadjaja / Evie Cahir / James Jirat Patradoon / Jessie Jean / Jordan Debney / Kasper Raglus / Kentaro Yoshida / Liam Snootle / Loretta Lizzio / Melissa Grisancich / Minna Leunig / Nicholas Jones / Pete Cromer / Rachel Derum / Robert Bowers / Seven Seas / Stephen Doan / Tai Snaith / Tim Haynes / Tom Gerrard / Victoria Mason / Viet-My Bui

‘Choose to Challenge’
International Women's Day Group Show

In 2021 International Women’s Day is themed around the slogan #ChooseToChallenge

We can actively challenge gender bias and inequality. We can celebrate women’s achievements and spotlight their callenges particulalrly in recent times of Covid-19 where more women than men suffered job losses yet their management of life and family in ISO at home was remarkable. The Black Lives Matter movement highlighted the challenges women, women of colour and trans women face every day.

Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.

ARTISTS -

Alexis Winter | Amanda Wright | Aude | Bec Armstrong | Em Jensen | Erin Michelle | Hilary Green | Jo Murphy | Julia Schmitt | Kara Mandel | Lucy Lawes | Lucy Lucy | Nani Puspasari | Peatree | Rachel Derum | Rachel Perrin | Robyn Grove | Sarah Strickland | Sooj Mitton | Tania Matilda | VKM | Ying Huang | Yiying Lee

PG Printmaker Gallery 
227 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

Exhibition Dates: June 20th – July 4th 2019
Opening Night: Thursday 20th June 6 – 8pm
Guest speaker 7 pm: John Gulzari will speak about his personal journey as an Afghani refugee, who at the age of 17, escaped the Taliban and started a new life in Australia.

Participating Artists:
Judy Horacek, Jim Pavlidis, Elizabeth Barnett, Tony Ameneiro, Damon Kowarsky, Angela Coombs Matthews, Hyun Ju Kim, Kevin Foley, Kasia Fabijanska, Chris Ingham, Rachel Derum, Rachel Moodie, Sai Wai Foo.

‘The Journey of Violets’ is a Group Exhibition in support of The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC).

Using the medium of print, 13 Artists respond to a contemporary Iranian poem by Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani.

‘The Journey of Violets’

In winter’s last days, the migration of violets are beautiful.
On grey midday’s of Winter,
When violets are moved in small wooden boxes
– their mobile homes –
With their roots, leaves, grafts and soil,
Saved from cold shadows and wrapped in Spring’s satin scent;
A thousand laments spring from my chest and flow down my cheeks:
I wish humans could take their home too
– roots, leaves, grafts and soil –
Where ever they move,
Away from cold winds,
And into bright sunlight.

Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani.

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
14 February – 4 March 2020

LOCALS is an all-Australian invitational group exhibition featuring the work of local artists we greatly admire.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Aaron Craig, Vexta, Neryl Walker, Jeff Raglus, Stephen Baker, Beastman, Antra Švarcs, Go Suga, Edith Rewa, Nicole Evans, Brian Cheung, Indigo O'Rourke, Kentaro Yoshida, Plump Ostere, Mark Seabrook, Adam Nickel, Kels O'Sullivan, Louise Kyriakou, Michelle Pereira, Angela Ho, Eevien Tan, Elroseabel, Rachel Derum, Thomas Jackson, Tim Haynes, Pete Cromer, Anna Di Mezza, Liam Snootle, Anna Hoyle, Jessie Jean, Alex Hotchin, Amok Island, Matthew Fortrose, Viet-My Bui, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Beci Orpin, Melissa Grisancich, Minna Leunig, Alice Oehr, Ashlea Bechaz, Jordan Debney, Frida Las Vegas, Mark Conlan, Maddy Young, Martin Harris, Helen Proctor, Tai Snaith, Al Stark, Sean Whelan, Kanny Yeung, Tom Civil, Jason Parker, Carla McRae, Georgia Hill, JESWRI, David O'Brien

View exhibition catalogue here

7 – 21 April 2022

Off the Kerb gallery is turning 15! And to celebrate fifteen years in the arts, we would like to invite you to join us in celebrating this fabulously fun-filled group show, Joy Seekers.

The last two years have seen some challenging times in the world, but our focus within our Off the Kerb community is now directed to all things positive, joyful, pleasure-seeking, and perhaps even hedonistic! The exuberant enjoyment of life’s abundant offerings is what we, as humans must aspire for as we emerge out of this historic life episode of a global pandemic.

To quote one of history’s greatest artists, Henri Matisse, ‘One must look at life through the eyes of a child”.

Joy Seekers brings together 46 of Melbourne’s finest creatives to indulge your senses in every possible way!

ARTISTS

RYAN POLA | ALEXIA NOVELLA | DAVID LEE PEREIRA | AILEEN NG | AUDE | AYMAN KAAKE | TINKY | CHRIS COSTA | MANDA LANE | LIAM SNOOTLE | LIZ GRIDLEY | JACK HOWL | RACHEL DERUM | YAN YAN CANDY NG | YEN YEN LO | GONKETA | RUBY BOVILL | ROCKET | KARIMA BAADILLA | LUKAS KASPER | EMILY VAN DER MOLEN | CAT PARKER | KATIE CHANCELLOR | CHRIS VERNON | ELIZABETH CLAIRE BURKE | TAO LEE | YING HUANG | LINDESAY DRESDON | BRENDAN ROWE | CAITLYN O’BRIEN | ROSIE TURNER | ANDRE BRUZZESE | LUCY WOOD | OTTO MACPHERSON | POLLY HOLLYOAK | JULIA SCHMITT | ANDREA HUGHES | SHARYA WICK | SARA DEANE | TIMOTHY PERKINS | RUBY KNIGHT | EMMA CREASEY | JJ ROUTLEY | KAY HUSTWAITE | TIM STA-ANA | ZAC GRENFELL

‘ANIMALIA’

OFF THE KERB GALLERY’S 12TH ANNIVERSARY GROUP SHOW FOR CHARITY - SUPPORTING SIGNAL HILL SANCTUARY

11 – 25 April 2019

ARTISTS
Drew Funk | Lucy Lucy | Barek | Creature Creature | Hayden Dewar | Liam Snootle | Tinky | Brian Cheung | N2O | David Lee Pereira | Ryan Pola
Tayla Broekman | hellotomato | thepeatreecollective | Lucy Wood | Alexia Novella | Benjamin Coombs | Andrew Laba | Anna Seed | Nash
Aude Lassalle | Jade Burstall | Dominic Taranto | Elena Larkin | Estephania Corbelletta | Lily Nie | Esther Sandler | Jack Howell | Dominic Sowersby Lizzie Mai | Jessica Jane | Julia Novella Julie Burke | Maria Barbaro | Kerri Hobba | Lauren Guymer | Leah Hume | Jennifer Huang | MACHINEGUN DEV Manda Lane | Leona Gardner-Chan | Oniism | Maria Petrova | Miranda Costa | Rachel Derum | Sara Flexmore | Sara Sirant | Victoria Constable | Skye Williams | Mia Emily Freeman

’Animalia’ is a group exhibition celebrating life on our planet. It is an exploration of the importance of each organism on the planet and the innate connectedness or disconnectedness of the world we live in. It explores our responsibility to the environment - a collective consciousness as “caretakers” of the world around us.

Throughout history, science and arts have revealed and reveled in the complexity of animals. Scientists, philosophers and creatives alike have each embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and re-imagine the boundaries between human and animal. Clinical findings show a beneficial and dynamic relationship between people and animals on emotional, psychological, and physical facets.

How has the natural world affected your life? Are there particular creatures or natural environments that inspire you or capture your imagination? How do you imagine your relationship with animals? Do you believe animals and humans can coexist in harmony with one another? In this show, artists express their symbolic, metaphorical or literal version of Animalia.

Off the Kerb celebrates its 12th birthday with this large scale group exhibition by donating proceeds from sale of art to Signal Hill Sanctuary, a safe and caring home for abused, neglected or unwanted farm animals.

Group Exhibition
September 2022

Artists have been invited from throughout Australia to respond to this theme: speaking to our sense of place, connections made, stories shared, the changes that have taken place and memories gathered.

‘Vinylism’
A celebration of Vinyl - using the record and sleeve as a canvas
Tent Gallery
Edinburgh, Scotland
April 2018

Paper collage on concrete security bollard
Souther Cross Station, Melbourne
August 2017

‘Earth Songs’
released September 14, 2022

Mia Barham - Alto Saxophone and Flute
Ashley Ballat - Trumpet
Ayda Akbal - Piano, Cello and Vocals
Blakely McLean Davies - Acoustic and Fretless Bass

Album Artwork - Rachel Derum

‘Mujeres que Cortan e Pegan’
Mulafest
Madrid, Spain
22-24 June 2018

An exhibition of printmaking by 65 Australian artists
Curated by Rona Green

1-19 December 2017
Neospace Gallery
Collingwood, Melbourne

‘The Exquisite Palette’
Tacit Galleries
Collingwood, Melbourne
6 June - 1 July 2018

Four Collages created for Dee Street Dance to represent four dance class modules: Rhythm, Flow, Sweat and Freedom.

Artworks created by Rachel Derum.

Text and Graphic Design (fifth image) by Emma Porter.