Preview of CHIMERA - new work by Ian Rawlinson

CHIMERA - new work by IAN RAWLINSON

PREVIEW Friday 3rd October 17.00 - 19.00

Exhibition runs 4th - 31st October 2025

THE EDGE CAFE, 351 Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 3DF

Open Mon - Sat 09.00 - 16.00

Ian Rawlinson's Chimera series is inspired by a black-and-white film clip of the last Thylacine in captivity. This film prompted Rawlinson to create images which deal with ideas of a vanished past: transformation and memory. The work combines part of the now-extinct Thylacine with places in Cambridge from Rawlinson's past, primarily Arbury and King's Hedges. These places have a nostalgic feeling and are reminders of a childhood spent in and around the newly created housing, the nearby farmland and derelict army base. In recent years, he has returned to the area to make a short film and other artwork, which is now part of a large body of Cambridge-inspired work.