Over the last 20 years, my art practice has been at the intersection of cognition and internal contemplative practice.
I currently focus on nature as a gateway to the internal mind, and am interested in ideas concerning beauty as a deeper aesthetic, contemplative pedagogy, heart learning and cognitive diversity. My influences are many but include Francisco Varela, Elliot Eisner, John Dewey, Marion Milner, Paul Klee, Kathleen Raine and Isa Gucciardi.
Sharing the thinking behind my art is an important part of my creative process. Through self-contextualisation and self-curation, I am able to make my thinking process visible, and this is often part of my artwork. My style of working has chronologically developed through projects that have encompassed artworks relating to residencies, conferences and writings, including
• Coming to awareness through drawing practice - PhD and my book Drawing
• How communities construct themselves/curating as a critical spatial practice - Drawing (on) Riverside Exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Galleries Glasgow: Built exhibition and symposium, Mall Galleries, London: winner of both the Aspect and Threadneedle Prizes
• The movement inward during the making of representational and abstract artwork - Seeing Beyond the Immediate Touring Exhibition and symposium for Scottish public galleries, originated in the RSA Barns-Graham Residency
• Comparisons in the practices of Law and Art - Imagination and the Law Conference, Oxford University, invited speaker
• Making Neurodiversity Visible - Body of Knowledge 2nd International Conference on Art and Cognition, Melbourne: Millefolia Film (funded by Creative Scotland), UK Interdisciplinary Autism Festival 2021
I show artworks and present papers nationally and internationally.
I am represented by Singulart (worldwide), Broth Art (England), Kilmorack Gallery (Scotland)
Patricia Paolozzi Cain (b. 1963, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England)
EDUCATION
2004-2008 PhD Glasgow School of Art
2000-2004 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central St Martins and University of Cumbria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Seeing Beyond the Immediate, Lillie Gallery, Glasgow
2017
Seeing Beyond the Immediate, Gracefield Art Centre Dumfries, and the Scott Gallery, Hawick
2015
Inte/Exte, A-side B-side Gallery, London
2012
Drawing (on) Riverside, 11 Spitalfields Gallery, London
2011
Drawing (on) Riverside, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
2013
Tri Juncta in Uno, The Meffan Gallery, Forfar
2011
Recent Work from Florence and Glasgow, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2008
Drawing Construction, Lillie Gallery, Glasgow
2004
Surfaces Geologia, Glasgow School of Art
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Derwent Art Prize Touring Exhibition
166 Annual Open Show, Royal West of England Academy
2017
Millefolia, Rebecca Hossock Gallery
Kilmorack Gallery
2016
Sward, John Green Fine Art
Colour, Royal Society of Watercolour Artists
2015
Faces and Places, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries London
2014
Affordable Art Fair London, Broth Art
RSW Contemporary Watercolour Society Competition, Bankside Gallery
Thompsons, Aldeburgh
2013
7th International Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale Venice
Drawology – Drawing is Phenomenology Bonnington Gallery
Derwent Art Prize
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
2012
Threadneedle Prize
Built, Mall Galleries (Curator and exhibitor)
2011
The Discerning Eye, London
The Force and Form of Memory, Compass Gallery
Contemporary Perspectives on Watercolour, The Mall Galleries
2010
The Threadneedle Prize, The Mall Galleries
The Aspect Prize, The Wyfold-Flemming Collection
14 RSA Residency Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Hospitalfield Alumni, Compass Gallery
Hospitalfield Residents 2002-09, Scottish Art Club
2009
BBC Scotland Collection, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
Glasgow Art Club Fellowship, Glasgow Art Club
Scottish Show, Thompsons Gallery
2008
McLean Museum and Art Gallery
Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition
2006
International Drawing Research Institute Exhibition, Glasgow School of Art
New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy of Art, Edinburgh
Drawing as Reflective Analysis Touring Show, London, Lincoln, Glasgow, Sydney Australia
2005
Vision 05, The Left Wing Gallery
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition
SELECTED AWARDS
2018 Finalist Derwent Art Prize
2017 VACMA Award
2015 Oppenheim John-Downes Award
2014 Conte à Paris Award, Pastel Society UK
2013 Finalist Arte Laguna Prize, Venice
2013 RSA Residency Award – Barns-Graham Trust
2012 PSUK Award
2010 Winner Threadneedle Prize
2009 Winner Aspect Prize
2009 RSA Residency Award, Arts Trust of Scotland Award
2009 RSW Visual Arts Residency Hospitalfield
2008 Glasgow Art Club Fellowship
2007 RSA John Kinross Scholarship
2006 Oppenheim-Downes Memorial Trust Award
2006 New Contemporaries shortlist: Rootsein Hopkins shortlist
2005 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Prize, RGI
2004-07 Horace W Goldsmith Scholarship for Drawing, Glasgow School of Art
COLLECTIONS
The Fleming-Wyfold Collection
Royal Scottish Academy
Glasgow Museums
Glasgow Royal Physicians and Surgeons
Lillie Art Gallery
Hospitalfield House
BBC Scotland
Aberdeen Asset Management
PUBLICATIONS
'Drawing (on) Riverside', Catalogue of the Exhibition 2011 ISBN 0956843409
'Drawing: The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner', Intellect Books 2010 ISBN 9781841503257
‘Drawing as coming to know: how do I know I make sense of what I do?', PhD Thesis, Glasgow School of Art/ University of Glasgow