Thursday 26 November 2015
Artist Talk: Toby Paterson ‘Six Projects’
6pm—7pm
Toby Paterson’s lecture is titled Six Projects and will introduce several recent projects as a basis to describe the different ways in which he engages with the built environment to develop and realise his work. Although fundamentally a painter, Paterson works across a range of contexts and forms, from expansive public space to the more intimate setting of the gallery, to explore visual experience through the subjective analysis of architectural imagery. Paterson will talk about work made in Den Haag, Saint Nazaire, London and throughout his native Scotland.
Toby Paterson is a visual artist born in Glasgow in 1974. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paterson won the 2002 Beck’s Futures Prize and received a Creative Scotland Award in 2006.
The forms and ideas inherent in architecture inspire his work. He has a particular interest in the historical reinvention of cities under the influence of Modernism and is intrigued by what the cultural outcome of that influence has been.
His continuing engagement with perpetually changing city contexts has informed his consideration of the everyday spaces we inhabit. Paterson’s installations of painting and sculpture in galleries, museums and public space allude to existing sites, aestheticised approaches to the construction of architectural space and the social and political motivations underpinning the built environment.
Photo: Vermilion Isometric, Acrylic on Perspex with Digital Print 2012 © Ruth Clark, courtesy of The Modern Institute.