18 February 2009 at 6.30pm
Join our SPIN host Alhena Katsof in a special opportunity to visit Toby Paterson’s studio.
Toby Paterson was born in Glasgow in 1974. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating from the former in 1995. In Glasgow, he is represented by The Modern Institute and in London, by Sutton Lane. Paterson won the 2002 Becks Futures Prize and received a Creative Scotland Award in 2006.
Recent projects include solo shows in The Hague and London, group exhibitions in San Francisco, Belgrade, Madrid and Middlesborough, and the commission of permanent works at Tramway in Glasgow, and at BBC Scotland’s new headquarters and on the campus of Warwick University. He is also developing work for the seven stations that constitute the Docklands Light Railways planned Stratford International Extension. Paterson’s interest in cities and their architecture is manifested throughout his work in the form of painting, sculpture and photography. He currently lives and works in Glasgow.
22 February 2007 at 6pm
Dark Light is ‘a painting that can literally be stepped into’. Scottish painter Alison Watt, who is currently artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in London, has created a room within a room in the form of a metal cube. Step inside and eloquent paintings of black cloth are revealed.
In previous solo exhibitions, namely Fold at the Fruitmarket Gallery in 1997, Watt presented diptychs of fabric and figure. Three years later in Shift at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, only the fabric and the suggestion of a human form remained. In 2004, she created Still, a composite of four 6ft paintings suspended in the Memorial Chapel of Old St Pauls Church. This personal homage to this extraordinary space was one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Festival of 2004, and is now on permanent display.
As Watt’s paintings have become increasingly engulfing and abstract, Dark Light is the fruits of her ambition to create an installation piece, made as a result of her Creative Scotland Award.
We will be looking at this exciting new work and will also consider the shift from figurative painting to abstraction which is ever prominent in contemporary art, as well as focusing on the relationship between the dealer and the artist.
