Exhibition
Ruby Tingle Afterlife
14 Dec 2023 – 10 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- Haslingden Road
- Rawtenstall
- Rossendale
England - BB4 6RE
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 464
- n/a
- Rawtenstall
The Whitaker Museum announces the new Exhibition ‘Afterlife’ by Ruby Tingle, resurrecting The Whitaker’s off show taxidermy collection as new dioramas in a temporary ‘swamp heaven’.
About
Afterlife draws together installation, works on paper, music, scent and performance to create a multi-sensory fantasy wetlands, based on Tingle’s fascination with the habitat and new stories dreamt up from her personal experiences in nature.
The exhibition explores the history of taxidermy and was initially inspired by The Whitaker’s famous tableaux The Tiger & The Python.
Tingle has created a dream afterworld, based on real living spaces for these dead specimens, linking back to her belief that the idea of ‘heaven’ is already on earth, in nature and must be preserved.
The opening event will be held on Thursday 14th December, alongside The Whitaker’s New Graduate Award Show and is open to all.
After a private viewing of the new exhibitions, Ruby will perform her new single which will be released the following day and will be available on all streaming platforms via No Such Thing Records.
The single tells the story of caring for a dream afterworld which mirrors our real-life natural spaces.
Ruby Tingle is an award-winning audio-visual artist and performer. Ruby’s work is concerned with the reconstruction of familiar forms and presenting the extraordinary as authentic. Expanded collage spans performance, installation, sound, work on paper and interventions with museum collections.
She has exhibited at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, the Venice Biennale and Chetham’s Library, with music performances and commissions at Manchester Jazz Festival, Glastonbury, Bluedot and New Colossus Festival in New York. She is represented by No Such Thing Records and PAPER Gallery.
This exhibition is supported by the Arts Council England.