Katie Paterson (born 1981) is a Fife-based visual artist from Glasgow, Scotland, having previously lived and worked in Berlin[1][2] whose artworks concern translation, distance, and scale.[3][4] Paterson holds a BA from Edinburgh College of Art (2004) and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (2007),[4] she is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (2013).[5]
Katie Paterson | |
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 Katie Paterson, Berlin 2014, photo by Oliver Mark | |
| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Website | katiepaterson |
Work
editPaterson has done several projects relating to melting glaciers; her graduation piece for art school, Vatnajökull (the sound of), featured a mobile phone number connected to a microphone submerged in a lagoon beneath Europe's largest glacier. Related work includes Langjökull, Snaefellsjökull, Soheimajökull, in which the soundscape of melting glaciers was created by making LPs from ice consisting of glacier meltwater.[6]
In one project she created a map of 27,000 known dead stars.[7][8][9] In History of Darkness Paterson presents the viewer with a multitude of images in the form of 35 mm slides that the viewer is invited to pick up and view in good light. They are labeled as to the disparate points in the universe from which they are photographed. And indicated on each is the distance in light-years from that point in the sky to Earth. They are images of darkness, and they are all virtually the same.[10]
She has had solo exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, Kettle's Yard Cambridge,[11] Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre,[12] Selfridges, London,[13] BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna,[14][15] Haunch of Venison, London, PKM, Seoul.,[16] Turner Contemporary, and Ingleby.
Paterson was the winner of a South Bank Sky Arts Award in 2014. and a Leverhulme Fellow at University College London. In July 2014, she sent an artwork into space, to the International Space Station aboard ESA Georges Lemaître ATV (ATV-5).[needs update][17][18][19]
In August 2014, to widespread acclaim, Paterson launched the Future Library project (NO:Framtidsbiblioteket), a 100-year-long artwork in Oslo's Nordmarka forest and new Deichman Public Library[1][20][21][22][23][24][25] and announced Margaret Atwood as the first writer.[26] Other writers include: David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, and Han Kang.
She was included in the Towner Gallery (Eastbourne) A Certain Kind of Light exhibition showing from 21 January to 17 May 2017.[27]
Turner Contemporary[28] hosted a major retrospective of all Paterson's artwork in 2019,[29] and launched a new book A place that exists only in moonlight, printed with cosmic dust.[30]
Awards
edit- First artist-in-residence in the Astrophysics Group within University College London (UCL) Physics & Astronomy[31]
- South Bank Sky Arts Award 2014 for visual art[32][33]
- Leverhulme Fellow, University College London[34]
- Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (2013)[35]
- Spirit of Scotland Award 2014[36]
References
edit- ^ a b Wright, Karen (31 July 2014). "Katie Paterson, artist: 'I do not want to re-create. I want to be doing the next thing'". The Independent. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ "Katie Paterson". generationscotland.
- ^ O'Reilly, Sally (March 2009). "Katie Paterson". Modern Painters. 21 (2): 34–35.
- ^ a b "Katie Paterson". James Cohan Gallery. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ "ECA graduate wins the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Visual Art". Edinburgh College of Art. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ^ Andrew., Brown (1 January 2014). Art and ecology now. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500239162. OCLC 904751530.
- ^ "Katie Paterson, Merkske Books". merkske.com.
- ^ Behrman, Pryle (July–August 2010). "Profile: Katie Paterson". Art Monthly (338): 24–25.
- ^ "Meet the Artist: Katie Paterson". Tate. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ Dillon, Brian (6 April 2012). "Katie Paterson, the cosmicomical artist". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ Paterson, Katie (2008). Earth-Moon-Earth. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford. ISBN 978-1901352375.
- ^ "Mead Gallery". Warwick Arts Centre.
- ^ "Out of this world: Katie Paterson's art installations for no noise". Selfridges. 28 January 2013. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ "Betting Foundation – Online casino games". Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ "Katie Paterson profile". National Galleries of Scotland. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ "Katie Paterson - March 24 - May 6, 2011 - PKM Gallery". www.pkmgallery.com.
- ^ "Big Cargo Post 5.0". 16 July 2014.
- ^ "Katie Paterson to Launch Artwork Into Orbit". Blaouin Artinfo. 28 July 2014. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Meteorite Sculpture Is ISS's First Artwork". artnet News. 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Art project plants 1,000 trees for books 100 years from now". CBC Books. 11 August 2014. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (7 August 2014). "The Fifth Season". New York Times.
- ^ "'Future Library' – a forest that will become books 100 years from now". Christian Science Monitor. 7 August 2014.
- ^ Piepenbring, Dan (26 June 2014). "Future Library".
- ^ Rusdal, Espen Hågensen (20 June 2014). "Tålmodighetens kunst" [The art of patience] (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 22 July 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ "村上春樹氏にオファーの可能性!? 100年後のノルウェー未来の図書館". ハフポスト. 19 June 2014.
- ^ Flood, Alison (4 September 2014). "Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "A Certain Kind Of Light". Towner Art Gallery.
- ^ "A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson & JMW Turner". www.turnercontemporary.org. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Durrant, Nancy (25 January 2019). "Exhibition review: Katie Paterson â€" A place that exists only in moonlight, Turner Contemporary, Margate". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ "Katie Paterson". Kerber Verlag EN. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ "When art meets astronomy (UCL)" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "The South Bank Sky Arts Awards: And The Winners Are". Sky UK. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014.
- ^ "ECA graduate wins the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Visual Art | Edinburgh College of Art". 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014.
- ^ "Artist in Residence joins Astrophysics Group". 4 April 2011. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Graduate profile: Katie Paterson | Edinburgh College of Art". www.eca.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ^ "Spirit of Scotland Awards 2014 – Nominees - Glenfiddich". Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.