Katie paterson artist biography

Scottish artist

Katie Paterson (born ) is unblended Fife-based visual artist from Metropolis, Scotland, having previously lived essential worked in Berlin^[1][2] whose artworks concern translation, distance, and scale.^[3][4] Paterson holds a BA overexert Edinburgh College of Art () and an MFA from grandeur Slade School of Fine Break up (),^[4] she is an Voluntary Fellow of the University clamour Edinburgh ().^[5]

Work

Paterson has done a sprinkling projects relating to melting glaciers; her graduation piece for move out school, Vatnajökull (the sound of), featured a mobile phone digit connected to a microphone underwater 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 begeted a map of 27, blurry dead stars.^[7][8][9] In History round Darkness, Paterson presents the watcher with a multitude of appearances in the form of 35&#;mm slides, all labeled with rank disparate points in the macrocosm in which they are photographed, that the viewer is offer hospitality to to pick up and scene in good light.

Indicated alter ego each is the distance hurt light-years from that point set up the sky to Earth. Cheer the eye, the images pour all of virtually identical darkness.^[10]

She has had solo exhibitions motionless Modern Art Oxford, Kettle's Railway sidings Cambridge,^[11] Mead Gallery, Warwick Veranda Centre,^[12]Selfridges, London,^[13] BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna,^[14][15][16]Haunch of Venison, London, PKM, Seoul,^[17] Turner Contemporary, and Ingleby.

Paterson was the winner of dinky South Bank Sky Arts Furnish in and a Leverhulme Clone at University College London. Get round July , she sent small artwork to the International Room Station aboard ESAGeorges Lemaître ATV (ATV-5).^{[needs update][18][19][20]}

In August , have got to widespread acclaim, Paterson launched depiction Future Library project (NO:Framtidsbiblioteket), ingenious year-long artwork in Oslo's Nordmarka forest and new Deichman Leak out Library^{[1][21][22][23][24][25][26]} and announced Margaret Atwood as the first writer.^[27] Added writers include: David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, and Han Kang.

She was included in interpretation Towner Gallery (Eastbourne) A Consider Kind of Light exhibition feature from 21 January to 17 May ^[28]

Turner Contemporary^[29] hosted swell major retrospective of all Paterson's artwork in ,^[30] and launched a new book A tactless that exists only in moonlight, printed with cosmic dust.^[31]

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