Tim Ralston
Interject, 2019
Tim Ralston is continually experimenting with the inter-disciplinary nature of contemporary art. His ephemeral, architecturally scaled, site-responsive paintings intervene and slice through the spaces they temporarily inhabit.
Ralston’s immersive paintings deconstruct the medium to its constituent parts, focusing on the support and surface. Experienced in the construction of painting panels he lets the rules inherent in this aspect of the practice inform the aesthetics. Viewed in the round the paintings become three-dimensional objects, challenging our perception of painting and the classic landscape genre. The context in which Ralston’s artworks are viewed is important, the viewer and the site activating them.
Preferring to show in non-art spaces; abandoned multi-storey car parks and decaying buildings, what is fundamental to all of his paintings is the dialogue with the place they will inhabit. Using measurements, plans and photographs, he builds up a thorough understanding of the architectural characteristics of where the paintings will be shown. Back in the studio he draws potential structures and constructs maquettes or speculative proposals, “artists tend to be particular about how their works are exhibited, (Judd) and notoriously focused on the particularities of installation spaces.”
About Tim Ralston
Tim Ralston (b. London) lives and works in Portugal. Tim has been working in the arts for 15 years, having finished 7 years at art school. A classically trained painter, he is most interested in the fabrication and the technical aspects of art-making. He has worked for London institutions and galleries as well as an assistant and fabricator to many artists. Tim was a director of the Brockley Street Art festival for 4 years and still runs the curatorial project Recreational Grounds in London with the artist Fiona Grady. He now runs PADA with his partner Diana Cerezino, an artist-led, non-profit arts organisation based in Lisbon.
Tim has shown internationally most recently solo presentations in London and Norway.