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Trish Cain
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House of Joseph by Trish Cain
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Wild Puffing of Emerald by Trish Cain
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Water Dance by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Exhibition
Seeing Beyond the Immediate
20 May 2017 – 8 Jul 2017
Regular hours
- Monday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 09:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 28 Edinburgh Road
- Dumfries
- DG1 1JQ
- United Kingdom
A new exhibition by Patricia Cain, including works by the celebrated Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, aims to take visitors inside the mind of the artist.
About
Seeing Beyond the Immediate, opens at Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries on 20 May and will later be shown in Hawick and Glasgow. It explores the artistic process from first idea to completed artwork.
The works by Cain, past winner of the Aspect Prize and Threadneedle Prize, have all been created since her move from Glasgow to Dumfries and Galloway three years ago. It is her first exhibition featuring an entirely new body of art since 2011.
Over the years her subject matter has ranged from landscape to forensically detailed architectural studies, and more recently organic structures. The unifying element is that she is always digging deep to expose underlying structures and the thinking that goes on behind the making.
Cain’s exhibits will contrast with original prints by St Andrews-born and Edinburgh trained Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a leading light of the St Ives School. The interest in Barns-Graham (affectionately known as “Willie”) developed after winning a residency to spend three months at her former home in St Andrews in Fife.
The Gracefield exhibition will include 90 pieces plus an animated video in six specifically themed rooms. Two works by Scottish abstract artist William Gear have also been loaned in addition to those by Barns-Graham.
