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Date: 2018

Location: Bristol, UK

Project: Artist Lecture

Partners: Arnolfini, The Modern Institute, University of the West of England (UWE)

Artist: Toby Paterson

We are delighted to present the award-winning Glaswegian artist Toby Paterson who will give a lecture about our recent commission and his wider public realm practice at Arnolfini in Bristol.  Paterson’s practice is concerned with the post-war reinvention of cities under the influence of Modernism and what the cultural outcome of that influence has been. 

Paterson is a painter whose work draws its impetus from both the contemporary form and the historical layers of the built environment. In responding to the architectural and spatial experience of cities, Paterson will share insights about the range of approaches he adopts through focussing on a selection of diverse public realm projects, each of which helped to form his approach delivering numerous integrated works for his recent Bristol project “A Shift in Perspective” commissioned by PONY at Minerva Primary Academy in Hillfields.

A visual artist of international repute, Paterson’s award-winning work encompasses gallery and museum exhibitions, temporary and permanent public commissions and cross-disciplinary collaborations-featuring paintings, reliefs and structures which explore the relationship between abstraction and reality. The forms and ideas inherent in architecture inspire his work, responding to the design and spacial experience of cities. Permanent public works have been commissioned for BBC Scotland’s headquarters in Glasgow (2007), Warwick University (2008), and in the South West area of The Hague (2013). Paterson has also developed expansive works for the Docklands Light Railway’s Stratford International Extension in London (2012) the Dunfermline town centre in Fife (2014), and the Bunhill 2 Energy Centre in Islington (2019). His Hatton Gallery Pavilion toured public sites in Newcastle and Gateshead in 2017. In 2002 Paterson won the Beck’s Futures Prize and in 2006 a Creative Scotland Award.

Toby Paterson is represented by The Modern Institute in Glasgow and Lange + Pult in Zurich.