dream room by Beci Orpin

dream room 
by Beci Orpin
 
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum 
Exhibition open Sat 21 Sep 2024 – Sun 2 Feb 2025 
Free entry 

Melbourne based artist and illustrator Beci Orpin’s exhibition dream room celebrates what it is for children to truly live in a room. Filled with items that kids have collected or placed themselves - a rubber band, a rock, an old sticker collecting dust bunnies, even a half-eaten apple.  

Kids’ rooms are filled with stuff that ultimately signifies their growing interests, identity and learnings from the world around them. dream room is an interactive and tactile exhibition that pays homage to the chaotic and messy nature of (most) kids rooms. Orpin invites kids of all ages, as well as adults with a child-like sensibility to play, learn and explore dream room. 

Image credits:
1) PLAY EVERYDAY, Hamiliton Gallery, photo by Kate Berry, © the artist
2) Beci Orpin
3) PLAY spectrum, City of Hume Town Hall, photo by Michael Pham © the artist 

About Beci Orpin

Beci Orpin is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, designer and illustrator. Her practice brings together colour and shape to create joyful designs, textiles and installations. Orpin loves creating accessible and interactive play spaces for kids, and those who are kids at heart, that offer unique and inspiring hands-on learning and tactile experiences. She is interested in how art has the capacity to bring different communities and people together.  

Her generous and collaborative nature has led to many partnerships with brands and organisations such as Apple, Google, Disney, Uniqlo, Gorman and Halcyon Nights. She has recently presented exhibitions and programs at the Immigration Museum Victoria, Shepparton Art Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Craft Victoria and Melbourne Design Week. She self-published a series of books, Book of Girls, which surveys the female form across 30 years of making and charts the dynamic evolution of her practice. 

About Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

Opened in 2011, Yarra Ranges Regional Museum promotes a greater understanding of the rich and diverse cultural heritage of the Yarra Ranges region through exhibitions, collections and programs. 

The Museum is custodian of a collection of over 13,000 cultural objects, including Indigenous belongings related to Coranderrk Aboriginal Station and a sub-collection related to opera diva Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).