5 AM

Name: 5 AM
Brand: Emma Ridgway
Price: 1680.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Oil on board
27.9 x 35.5 x 0.4 cm

£1,680.00

About the Artwork

5AM is a painting I made just before the renters rights act came in, when I was in the process of being evicted (as my landlord was selling) and finding I was priced out of the part of London I'd lived in for 9 years, which I'd come to think of as home. One morning I woke up at 5am feeling anxious, I walked through to the kitchen and my neighbour's silver Siberian cat appeared through the window, lit up in orange sunrise light like a vision, completely magical. Sometimes the universe gets it. I wanted to remember the little moments of magic that I felt living in that flat - the simple, ephemeral things that are easily forgotten.

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Details

Medium: Oil on board

Year: 2026

Size: 27.9 x 35.5 x 0.4 cm

Ready to Hang: Yes.

The work has an open back and can be hung from a screw in the wall - no special fittings required for installation.

Emma Ridgway

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Emma Ridgway (b.1987, Stafford) studied illustration at Falmouth University. In 2016 she received a Communication Arts Award of Excellence for editorial illustrations for Smithsonian Magazine, and in 2018 her collages were included in a report by National Institute for Art History (INHA), Paris. Her work has appeared in group shows at Cafe Oto and the Foundry Gallery, The Copeland Gallery and Somerset House.
Between 2017 and 2025, she worked as an artists assistant and later as a scenic painter, working on installations for Tate, The Whitechapel Gallery and The Wellcome Collection. In 2023 Thin Red Lion art collective was founded, with London group shows at Hypha studios (in Farringdon and Stratford), The Crypt, hARTslane, APT and the Bomb Factory Marylebone.

Hypha Studios Artist: 'the knot on the hook in the fish in the lake', curated by Nastia Svarevska, at Hypha Gallery South Bank (2026); 'Nectar' at Hypha Gallery East Village in 2024, 'Dialectical Shape' at Hypha Gallery Farringdon in 2023

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