Threadneedle-prize winning artist Patricia Cain’s first major solo London exhibition focuses on the construction of Glasgow’s new Zaha Hadid-designed Riverside Transport Museum.
Over the course of four years, she worked closely with the BAM team that built the museum on the banks of the Clyde, recording and interpreting the construction process.
The artist says that she developed “a strong bond” with the BAM workforce. “As a relative outsider I was given a real insight into the experience of what it’s like to be on site during the construction of a seminal public building. The BAM guys probably take it for granted, but the organisation of making a structure like this is like some complicated dance sequence. I came to appreciate how construction is all about management, being able to work with others and creating something through skill ... so there are a lot of similarities with the process of making art.”
The exhibition runs from 9 March to 29 April at the Eleven Spitalfields gallery, off Brick Lane.
“It’s fantastic to be able to show this work at Spitalfields, where there’s such a strong architectural heritage and I hope that those involved in construction in particular might get something from seeing their own realm relayed back to them,” Ms Cain added.
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