The birds will sing, that you are part of everything (2024) Adam Rawlinson Install shot Image: Courtesy of Jules Lister

CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Adam Rawlinson

Rawlinson is an abstract painter primarily working in oils. His work explores the natural world, with a particular focus on lichen – a symbiotic natural organism. He takes interest in their ‘often-unnoticed and underappreciated significance within our ecology, highlighting the extent of our vital relationship with everything that makes up life on earth’.

The birds will sing, that you are part of everything (2024) Adam Rawlinson Install shot Image: Courtesy of Jules Lister

The birds will sing, that you are part of everything (2024) Adam Rawlinson Close-up shot Image: Courtesy of Sam Parker

Rawlinson has exhibited across the UK, including Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester, Brick Lane Gallery, London and The Alchemy Experiment Glasgow. Recently he was awarded a travel scholarship by The Aidan Threlfall Trust to the Scottish Highlands.


The birds will sing, that you are part of everything (2024) Adam Rawlinson Install shot Image: Courtesy of Jules Lister