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Ruby Tingle, Slough Mass- Dreaming Grotesques Collage, dye, plastic, skin on specialist paper, 2021 104 x 71 cm
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Image (C) Molly Mansley
Exhibition
Ruby Tingle: Lagoons
23 Apr 2022 – 26 Jun 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 15:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:30
Free admission
Address
- Museum Street
- Warrington
- WA1 1JB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Warrington Bank Quay and Warrington Central railway stations both within walking distance of the Museum
Ruby Tingle draws together the Museum’s herpetology collection and Cabinet of Curiosities Gallery through collage, music, film, installation and performance to explore the preservation of amphibians and reptiles.
About
Inspired by these species’ links to the monstrous and mythological, she has drawn upon the Museum’s spirit store, Prehistory gallery, Palissy-ware objects and painting ‘Daughter of the Lagoons’ to create interventions which look at these animals’ extraordinary nature in folklore and reality.
Performances every Saturday* invite visitors to step into a fantastical underworld of anthropomorphic characters, who will be present in the galleries just as reptile creatures would have lounged around the vast red desert of prehistoric Warrington.
The exhibition continues in the Cabinet of Curiosities Gallery (Gallery 7).
“Pictorial, literary, and film cultural narratives have only amplified negative emotions around herps. Simply put, they have always acted unknowingly as our templates or prototypes for monsters... the true curiosity cabinet – where herpetofauna always figure significantly – is not about fear but wonder. And here the herps shine. They are truly wonderful creatures, and their more remote emotional status only lends to their mysterious and marvelous importance.”
- Prof. Stephen Asma
Music
The EP ‘Lagoons’ now available via No Such Thing Records on Spotify, is directly inspired by the Museum’s collections and explores the artist’s personal life long connections with amphibians and reptiles. Her music mixes elements of natural sound, high range celestial vocals and inventive electronic instrumentation to produce original and dreamy, experimental ‘music from the swamp’.
*Performances are every Saturday, 1-3pm, from 23 April - 25 June. There is no performance on 7 May 2022.
