Patricia Paolozzi Cain NEAC

Statement

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).

Bio

Trish is a Dumfriesshire-based artist whose practice (drawing, painting, sculpture and public art) is intimately connected to her interest in skill-lead art-making processes.

Originally from the Lake District, she studied at Central St. Martins and after qualifying and practicing as a lawyer in both England and Scotland, she finally returned to art full-time after completing a PhD through the practice of drawing at Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Her book entitled Drawing: The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner is about the relationship between thinking and drawing.

In 2010 she won both the Threadneedle Prize and the Aspect Prize for work which responded to the regeneration of the Clyde landscape and led to a major 5 month exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Drawing (on) Riverside.

She is a recent recipient of the RSA Kinross Scholarship, the RSW Hospitalfield Residency, and was regional prize winner in Discerning Eye 2011 and a finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize 2013 in Venice. She exhibits widely and is a member of the Drawing Research Network.

Memberships

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts

Royal Watercolour Society