Biography
Toby Paterson (b. Glasgow, Scotland 1974) studied at Glasgow School of Art (1991-95). In 2002 he won the Beck’s Futures Prize and in 2007 was commissioned by BBC Scotland to install an artwork outside their new headquarters at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. He produces large-scale wall drawings and paintings, installations, sculptures and assemblages featuring abstract shapes that resemble the geometric components of a building or an urban landscape. He is interested in the integration of art and architecture and draws on a history of modernist design in the formation of his works. Mainly concerned with cities and modernist architecture, Paterson is influenced by both his physical experience of a place (often on skateboarding journeys) and his interest in its history, asking ‘what cultural, political and economic situation had made that place exist?’ Selected exhibitions and projects include Devils in the Making, GOMA, Glasgow (2015); Thresholds, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (2014); Ludic Motif, Trongate, Glasgow (2014) and Resetting, a public commission in the south-west area of The Hague, with Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands (2013).
