Exhibition by Ian Rawlinson

REFRACTOR is an exploration of collective memory as seen through East Anglia’s military past, an idea which grew out of Rawlinson’s memories of the area surrounding his childhood home in Cambridge, where an abandoned World War II army depot was used as farmland.

The new work is inspired by connections to places and structures in North West Norfolk. Prints and collages reflect Rawlinson’s interest in the effect of decaying concrete and the buildings’ ability to retain the iconography of their former function despite their dereliction. He adds intrusions and abstractions to the images, drawing out the notion that these places are portals where different timelines meet.

The work is presented at the Edge Café, situated on the Brookfields Hospital site on Mill Road, Cambridge. The Edge Café is a community café and social enterprise working as a hub for recovery and positive change in Cambridge.

Born in Cambridge, Ian Rawlinson grew up in the city during the 1960s and 1970s. He studied art at Cambridge College of Art & Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) and left Cambridge in 1982 to further his studies at Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since 1985 he has lived and worked in London. To date his work has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions both in the UK and internationally and is held in public and private collections. He was recently elected an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

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