PAT R I C I A C A I N INTERNAL WORK 6 - 31 October 2018
Cover: Milnton Diptych (Detail) Pastel, 140 x 90cm Inside Cover: Emerging Wood (Detail)
Pastel, 81 x 61cm
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PAT R I C I A C A I N
INTERNAL WORK 6 - 31 October 2018
Join us for the opening on Saturday 6th October from 2-4pm
&Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk 07711 285 545
PAT R I C I A C A I N My inherent impulse to make art is often a vehicle for thinking deeply. For me, making work is a fusion of spiritualism, cognitive science, psychology and philosophy but in a practical and physical sense. The immersion in making creates a space for awareness to develop. I’m interested in how we develop our authentic self and create internal growth. I often make this internal growth a distinct element of an art work or the curation of it, through mapping, modelling, narrating. I have faith in transmitting these ideas through my drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations. Quite often I’m involved with the idea that you can paint or draw something terribly complex and through making it, it becomes nothing. I often seek this absence though a process that involves intense scrutiny. Invariably, my work is on the cusp of both abstract and figuration - a place where observation turns inwards. For me, energy is fundamental: the dominant energy resides in empty space. In the balancing up between abstraction and figuration, it is the absence or negative space that activates the artwork, yet also makes it unstable. The findings I’ve made from engaging in this type of process resonate with concerns in science: I connect with the idea that the artist operates as a self-referencing system made up of processes, where thinking occurs through the body and processes are in effect, self-enacting. This exchange of process and energy leads to continual transformation, and my ability to grow through making work is what keeps me absorbed in this process.
Complex Drawing Pastel, 91.5 x 122cm
Re-edify Me, Moon, Give Me Again Pastel, 59 x 75cm
Released By Summer From The Harmless Graves Pastel, 59 x 75cm
Georges Walk 9,10,11,12 420 x 170cm
Left Bank Pastel, 91 x 122cm
Beech Tree
Pastel, 111 x 148cm
Milnton Diptych Pastel, 90 x 140cm
Languages That Are Made to Die Mixed Media, 52.5 x 70cm
Wilhelmina’s Garden Pastel and Acrylic, 170 x 122cm
PAT R I C I A C A I N (b. 1963, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) 2011 The Discerning Eye, London The Force and Form of Memory Compass Gallery 2004-2008 PhD Glasgow School of Art Contemporary Perspectives on Watercolour, Mall Galleries 2000-2004 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central St Martins and University 2010 The Threadneedle Prize, The Mall Galleries of Cumbria The Aspect Prize, The Wyfold-Flemming Collection 14 RSA Residency Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy SOLO EXHIBITIONS Edinburgh 2018 Internal Work, &Gallery, Edinburgh Hospitalfield Alumni Compass Gallery Seeing Beyond the Immediate, Lillie Gallery, Glasgow Hospitalfield Residents 2002-09 Scottish Art Club 2017 Seeing Beyond the Immediate, Gracefield Art Centre 2009 BBC Scotland Collection, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art Dumfries, and the Scott Gallery, Hawick Glasgow Art Club Fellowship, Glasgow Art Club 2015 Inte/Exte, A-side B-side Gallery, London Scottish Show, Thompsons Gallery 2012 Drawing (on) Riverside, 11 Spitalfields Gallery, London 2008 McLean Museum and Art Gallery 2011 Drawing (on) Riverside, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition 2013 Tri Juncta in Uno, The Meffan Gallery, Forfar 2006 International Drawing Research Institute Exhibition, 2011 Recent Work from Florence and Glasgow, House for an Glasgow School of Art Art Lover, Glasgow New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2008 Drawing Construction, Lillie Gallery, Glasgow Drawing as Reflective Analysis Touring Show, London, 2004 Surfaces Geologia, Glasgow School of Art Lincoln, Glasgow, Sydney Australia 2005 Vision 05, The Left Wing Gallery SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition 2018 Derwent Art Prize Touring Exhibition 166 Annual Open Show, Royal West of England Academy AWARDS 2017 Millefolia, Rebecca Hossock Gallery 2018 Finalist Derwent Art Prize Kilmorack Gallery 2017 VACMA Award 2016 Sward, John Green Fine Art 2015 Oppenheim John-Downes Award Colour, Royal Society of Watercolour Artists 2014 Conte a Paris Award, Pastel Society UK 2015 Faces and Places, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol 2013 Finalist Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries London 2013 RSA Residency Award – Barns-Graham Trust 2014 Affordable Art Fair London, Broth Art 2012 PSUK Award RSW Contemporary Watercolour Society Competition, 2010 Winner Threadneedle Prize Bankside Gallery 2010 Aspect Prize Winner Thompsons, Aldeburgh 2009 RSA Residency Award, Arts Trust of Scotland Award 2013 7th International Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale Venice 2009 RSW Visual Arts Residency Hospitalfield Drawology, Drawing is Phenomenology Bonnington 2008 Glasgow Art Club Fellowship Gallery 2007 RSA John Kinross Scholarship Derwent Art Prize New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries 2006 Oppenheim-Downes Memorial Trust Award Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2006 New Contemporaries shortlist: Rootsein Hopkins shortlist 2012 Threadneedle Prize 2005 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Prize, RGI Built, Mall Galleries (Curator and exhibitor) 2004-07 Horace W Goldsmith Scholarshi, Glasgow School of Art
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