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!
