Katie Paterson
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]
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Born | 1981 Glasgow, United Kingdom |
Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Edinburgh College of Art, Slade School of Fine Art |
Website | katiepaterson |
Work
Paterson 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] Her ongoing project History of Darkness is a series of slides and photographs of the dark, all "numbered, and annotated with distance in light years from Earth."[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] Haunch of Venison, London, PKM, Seoul.[15], 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).[16][17][18]
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 Public Deichmanske Library[1][19][20][21][22][23][24] and announced Margaret Atwood as the first writer.[25]. 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.[26]
Turner Contemporary[27] hosted a major retrospective of all Paterson's artwork in 2019[28], and launched a new book A place that exists only in moonlight, printed with cosmic dust.[29]
Awards
- First artist-in-residence in the Astrophysics Group within University College London (UCL) Physics & Astronomy[30]
- South Bank Sky Arts Award 2014 for visual art[31][32]
- Leverhulme Fellow, University College London[33]
- Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (2013)[34]
- Spirit of Scotland Award 2014[35]
References
- 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.
- "Katie Paterson". James Cohan Gallery. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- 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. "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.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Betting Foundation – Online casino games".
- "Katie Paterson - March 24 - May 6, 2011 - PKM Gallery". www.pkmgallery.com.
- "Big Cargo Post 5.0". 16 July 2014.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Meteorite Sculpture Is ISS's First Artwork". artnet News. 28 July 2014.
- http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/08/art-project-plants-1000-trees-for-books-100-years-from-now.html
- Cotter, Holland (7 August 2014). "The Fifth Season" – via NYTimes.com.
- "'Future Library' – a forest that will become books 100 years from now". 7 August 2014 – via Christian Science Monitor.
- Piepenbring, Dan (26 June 2014). "Future Library".
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 July 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "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" – 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.
- http://www.sky.com/tv/show/south-bank-awards/article/winners-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.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)