WHAT IS ROAMING ROOM?
ROAMING ROOM is directed by Sandie Macrae and is now a subsidiary of PostROOM Gallery London. Exhibitions shown at PostROOM Gallery are moved to a new location, usually outside London and contextualised accordingly.
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Roaming Room in the past placed contemporary art in dilapidated, unused, lived in or occupied buildings and invited artists to produce new works contextualised by the architecture, giving them the opportunity to present unusual imaginative projects.
This is a move away from conventional gallery spaces. Our buildings can be dormant, in a raw state, occupied or not but nothing like a traditional white cube gallery.
OUR HISTORY
R O O M opened in Bristol in 2002, where it formed the annexe of a newly-built, custom-made house. The initiative evolved and grew to become ROOM TOO, FOUND GALLERY, ROOMARTSPACE, ROOM LONDON and then ROAMING ROOM, originally operating in Marylebone. It is now a subsidiary of PostROOM www.postroom.online in central London.
THE FUTURE
In the future we will be putting on more shows under the banner of ROAMING ROOM around the country. If these spaces are in someone’s house, building, barn, shed, caravan or aircraft hangar the owner will make decisions with us about which exhibitions they want and how they want the work to be seen. It becomes a collaboration. It gives artists the chance to have two exhibitions - in London with PostROOM Gallery and then somewhere else in the country.