“ Back Up To The Sound & The Funk
Rosalind Murray
rosalind.j.murray@gmail.com
Jan 16
An audio-stomping-roof-studio-session in New York influenced by The Drifters, Bruce Nauman, Samuel Beckett & exercises for a broken leg.
Dec 17
Dec 16
“ Lateral Canal Ahead
— An exhibition & performance series with the Cambridge Arts Council, MA, October to December 2011
Sugar wos ear (extract), 2011
Sugar beet was grown in the fields around my home in Carlow town, Ireland, until the untimely closure of the Carlow sugar factory in 2005 to free the land for development.
In ‘Sugar Wos Ear’ I collect a palette for ephemeral graffiti while playing with ideas of abstraction, the making of colour-field paintings & compositions in the field, alluding to movements in painting & poetry that co-existed in time with the establishment and development of the Carlow sugar factory.
Sugar wos ear (extract), 2011
Your Gate Is My Grid!
So, row row row your boat.
(Extract) River Barrow Track, Carlow, Ireland
I was attracted to the 19th Century Cambridge ice-trade, the idea that ice was harvested from a fresh water ice field, Fresh Pond, transported using specially laid train tracks to boats, where it was packed tight, insulated with hay, and shipped all over the world.
While I was at home thinking about trade on tracks, and moving the ephemeral, Ireland had the biggest snow fall in decades and it was a rare opportunity to make these images on the Barrow Track.
Lateral Canal Ahead
Irish artist Rosalind Murray creates playful, intimate and poetic images and narratives through performance. Murray draws and sings her way around the urban environment of the city of Cambridge, and the rural environment of her home place, Carlow, in the river Barrow valley in Ireland. Lateral Canal Ahead is a poetic detour of gallery works and live performances made on and around train-tracks and canal-tracks in Cambridge and Carlow, making trade links to tie both places into a relationship for a time. Within these frames, Murray finds inspiration and curiosities from a parallel past of industry that shapes our lives and landscapes.
In Lateral Canal Ahead, Murray uses the existing infrastructure of both places to distribute a trade of painterly qualities and reflection, framed in a journey of performance, drawing, story and song to explore and play with industrial history and environmental aesthetics.
The resulting series of videos, included in the installation, draw on Murray’s making of compositions and paintings in the color fields around Carlow and the former ice field in Cambridge including her works titled, “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue, & Green, & Grey?”, “Sugar Wos Ear”, and “Ice-Field-Baby”.
Lateral Canal Ahead, so row your boat, or come on a train, paint a colour-field a-round an ice-field, and to abridge, left keep or superduper!
Why should anybody be afraid of red, yellow & blue?
Extracts of performances presented at Porter Square, Alewife underpass, the tower at Mount Auburn Cemetery and an empty lot beside Big John’s Mattress Factory at First St. & Bent St.
Stand Behind A Yellow Line
Photo by Bob Raymond
