Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow Hosts 'Riverside' by Patricia Cain

Written by Kevin Engler Friday, 04 November 2011 21:09

Glasgow.- A unique and often revealing study of the construction of the Zaha Hadid designed Riverside Museum will open at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on April 15. 'Drawing (on) Riverside' by Patricia Cain features around 100 works, forming a powerful body of work from an award winning artist who explores the development of the £74million museum in drawing, painting and sculpture highlighting the different phases of construction. It features many new works and runs until 14 August 2011. Patricia Cain has become a familiar figure on the site of Glasgow’s new transport museum and her work based on the project has already won the prestigious Threadneedle Prize and the Aspect Prize. Construction on the Riverside Museum began in late 2007 and it will open to the public on June 21 2011. Councillor George Redmond, Chair of Glasgow Life said: “Anyone who sees the works Patricia Cain has been creating that are based on Riverside will be astonished by her unique vision and the detail she has captured of Britain’s most exciting museum project.

This exhibition not only showcases Patricia’s incredible talent, it also affords visitors an insight to the various stages that have brought this iconic building to life.”  Patricia Cain said: “Watching the Clyde landscape changing has had a major influence on my art practice for the last 10 years and as part of this, I’ve been observing and recording the construction of the new Riverside Museum.  I’ve made this process the focus for this exhibition by trying to expose aspects of this through both solo work, and collaborations with Ann Nisbet, Alec Galloway, Rosalind Lawless and Phil Lavery that mirror the working on-site collaborations that occurred.”



Patricia Cain is a prize-winning artist and writer born in Newcastle and raised in Penrith in the English Lake District. She now lives and works in Glasgow with her husband Sam Cartman and children. After attending the first year of a BA course in Illustration at St Martin’s School of Art, she left to obtain degree in Law at Newcastle, and worked as a lawyer in Carlisle for 8 years, also teaching law and writing articles for legal journals. She completed her BA in Fine Art at the Cumbria Institute for the Arts, after which she moved to Glasgow and trained as a Scottish Solicitor. However, after winning the Goldsmith Scholarship for drawing, she left shortly after to undertake a full-time PhD at Glasgow School of Art. She received the Royal Glasgow Institute Prize in 2005, the 2007 RSA Kinross Scholarship to study in Florence, the 2010 Aspect prize for Scottish artists and 2010 Threadneedle prize. Since completing her PhD in 2008, she has worked as a practicing artist in Glasgow. Patricia's book, entitled "Drawing: the Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner, was published by Intellect books in 2010. Her current work focuses on the landscape of Glasgow and, in particular, the River Clyde and its regeneration. She has also spent time exploring aspects of the construction of the new water plant at Milngavie and worked on site during the construction of Glasgow’s New Riverside Museum. Patricia’s work links the landscape to both explicit and implicit ways of thinking that arise during the production of her drawings. She experiments with drawing conventions used in art and architecture as tools to make visible logical and intuitive thought processes, closing observing how she makes her drawings and how connections are formed. By this means, her work is progressed both in terms of process and subject matter. The artist exhibits widely across Scotland but also in London, Sydney and Venice. Visit the artists website at ... http://www.patriciacain.com



The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow houses one of Europe's greatest civic art collections, consisting of almost 10,000 items in the beautiful surroundings of Kelvingrove Park in the city's West End. Loved by locals and tourists alike, the Kelvingrove vies with Edinburgh Castle to be Scotland's most popular attraction, and is, by some margin, the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. The magnificent red sandstone building was partly financed using the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park. The gallery was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E. J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901 as the palace of fine art for the Glasgow International Exhibition held that year. Built in a Spanish Baroque style, the outside facades are constructed from red sandstone from Lochabriggs Quarry near Dumfries (which provided much of the stone for Glasgow's Victorian-era expansion), the interior uses a much lighter colored sandstone from Giffnock. The buildings facades are adorned with sculptures by George Frampton, Francis Derwent Wood and other contemporary British artists. In 2006, the Kelvingrove reopened after a three year refurbishment program and immediately tripled its visitor numbers to over 3 million in is first full year, making it the UK's most visited museum outside London (only the National Gallery, Tate Modern and British Museum receive more visitors). The refurbishment work included opening up the first floor halls, creating new basement display and retail spaces and the complete restoration of the interior stonework. In addition to the galleries, visitors to the museum (which is free to enter) can enjoy its cafes and museum shops. The study centre and library are both open to the public for those who want to discover more about Glasgow's museums and their collections. The museum hosts over 1.5 million visitors annually. Visit the museum's website at ... http://clyde-valley.com/glasgow/kelvingr.htm

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