Queens Park Railway Club Rose Ruane: Even a Failing Candle Still Casts a Shadow

Queens Park Railway Club are delighted to present Even a Failing Candle Still Casts a Shadow by Rose Ruane, an introspective use of performance, drawing and printmaking to create a fractured narrative around abject pubescent loneliness and the eternal adolescent within the middle aged artist’s obsession with the mysterious disappearance of Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers.

Several identically dressed male actors recite a fractured text interwoven from fragments of the artist’s teenage diary, thoughts on the ageing female body and obsessive writing on the disappearance of Richey Edwards. Wearing t-shirts created by Ruane through an iterative process of appropriated images, printmaking and drawing, the artist has engaged the actors in an act of self portraiture which explores a retrospective self-mythology shot through with pubescent abjection. This process creates an essay of the relationship between the middle aged female, Ruane, to her changing appearance as she attempts to locate the eternal teenager within the adult.

Rose Ruane is a multi-disciplinary Glasgow based artist who has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Much of her work (which you can see at roseruane.co.uk) investigates gender identity and representation.

“Based around a rigorous core of research into sexuality and self mythology, my work generally takes the form of performance to camera; however it also encompasses outcomes of painting, installation, text and live performance.”

Queens Park Railway Club is an artist lead project situated in Queens Park Railway Station, Glasgow. As part of their performance season they will be presenting work by Rose Ruane, David Sherry, Michelle Hannah and Stewart Home. Find out more at queensparkrailwayclub.co.uk.