AINSLIE MURRAY

Ainslie Murray intends conduct a series of ‘pilgrim’ walks in Banff National Park in which a number of popular trails will be explored as contemporary pilgrimages.  She will research and walk these trails and document her movement through the landscape in a series of large scale stitched paintings and/or textiles.  The paintings will reference the body, distance and topography of the nature of each walk.  She uses a mapping technique that traces time and distance of each walk as well as the number of people she encounters through adaptations of grid structures.  A series of text for publication in the format of a literary journal will accompany the final painting/textile pieces.

Artist biography: Ainslie Murray is an artist, architect and academic currently lecturing in the Architecture Program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.  She is currently pursuing her PhD in Visual Art, examining the significance of the repetitious act of walking on spatial production.  She has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Adelaide, Australia.  Ms. Murray has three exhibitions scheduled for 2007:  Circumambulation at Mount Kailash in Tibet, The Interface Project with Mimi Tong at the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney, and Tactile Imagination at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in Sydney.  Since 2006, Ms. Murray has received three grants from the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Whales.