Career
In 1957 lifelong conscientious objector Rumney was one of the co-founders of the London Psychogeographical Association. Amongst those present at the founding in the Italian village of Cosio d"Arroscia were Walter Olmo, Michèle Bernstein (to whom Rumney was later married ), Asger Jorn, and Guy Debord. However, within seven months Rumney had been "amiably" expelled from the SI by Debord for allegedly "failing to hand in a psychogeography report about Venice on time."
One visited him in a squalid room in London"s Neal Street, in a house shared with near down-and-outs.
Next, one would find him in Harry"s Bar in Venice, or at a Max Ernst opening in Paris.
He seemed to take poverty with more equanimity than riches."
Ralph Rumney died of cancer at his home in Manosque, Provence, France, in 2002, aged 67.