TIM RIDLEY
Polyester, Painting & Panthers
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Friday 17 & Saturday 18 December
11-5pm Fri, 11-6pm Saturday with live auction from 4pm
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During his second module of MA painting at Plymouth College of Arts, artist Tim Ridley has been tranferring a series of oil sketches made from a single Panther reference image onto found clothing.
The dye sublimation works best on clothing with over 65% polyester in the fibres. There’s a tension here, polyester is made from petrochemicals and although cheap and versatile, at the moment there’s no system for large scale reuse or safe decomposition.
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In ‘Polyester, Painting and Panthers’, Ridley will host a symposium on Thursday 16 December that seeks to open up a dialogue around the ethics and future of animals, polyester and painting. Following the symposium will be an exhibition of these works and series small scale paintings, culminating with a live auction of these garments from 4pm on Saturday 18th raising moment for the Cornwall Wildlife Trust
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Image: Tim Ridley, Panther, red on pink & gold support cut 40cm x 32cm (detail) 2021
Image: Tim Ridley, Black panther on pink oil on hardboard 45cm x 32cm. 2021