351 Mill Road, Edge Cafe, Cambridge

History of the Edge Cafe

2026

ABRASIONS

New work by

IAN RAWLINSON

3rd – 31st October 2026

THE EDGE CAFE

351 Mill Road Cambridge CB1 3DF

Open Mon – Fri 08.00 – 16.00 Sat 09.00 -16.00

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Edge Café on the Brookfields site, Ian Rawlinson presents his 10th solo exhibition at the café.After spending the last 14 years working on imagery inspired by places and memories from his past in Cambridge, and more recently North West Norfolk, his work is now evolving in different and as yet, unknown directions.

To conclude this period of work, Rawlinson will be exhibiting work from two recent series, ‘Mere’ and ‘Butterfly’.The inspiration for this work comes from his writing, which explores connections between different areas of his East Anglian past.The process of making then fragments and distorts the imagery, revealing an abstracted sense of place.

The work is presented at the Edge Café, situated on the Brookfields Hospital site on Mill Road, Cambridge.The Edge Café is a community café and social enterprise working as a hub for recovery and positive change in Cambridge.

Ian Rawlinson is an interdisciplinary artist and a writer. Born in Cambridge, he grew up in the city during the 1960s and 1970s. He studied art at Cambridge College of Art & Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) and left Cambridge in 1982 to further his studies at Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since 1985 he has lived and worked in London. Rawlinson’s work has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally, and has been recognised with awards and residencies. His work is held in public and private collections in the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA.

www.ianrawlinson.com instagram: @ianrawlinson.art