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.
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