Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson was born in Glasgow in 1981 and educated at Edinburgh College of Art from 2000-2004 and at the Slade School of Art from 2005-7.

Paterson’s artistic practice is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven, with emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology. As Erica Burton, curator at Modern Art Oxford has said “Katie Paterson’s work engages with the landscape, as a physical entity and as an idea. Drawing on our experience of the natural world, she creates an expanded sense of reality beyond the purely visible”.

Recent artworks include Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), 2007 which involved the transmission of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back; Vatnajökull (the sound of), 2007-8 – a live phone line to an Icelandic glacier; and All the Dead Stars, 2009; a large map documenting the locations of the 27,000 dead stars known to humanity.

Katie Paterson has already enjoyed widespread success, taking part in the Tate Triennale (2009) and exhibiting at Modern Art Oxford (2008) the Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2009), BALTIC, Gateshead (2010) and Whitstable Biennale (2010). She currently holds a John Florent Stone fellowship at Edinburgh College of Art and is Leverhulme Artist in Residence in the Astrophysics Group, UCL. She took her place in Mystics or Rationalists?, a group exhibition at Ingleby Gallery in the summer of 2011, and in 2012 has solo shows planned at Ingleby Gallery and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.

http://www.inglebygallery.com/artists/katie-paterson/