Ingleby Gallery
Katie Paterson: Ideas
27 June – 27 September 2014
Katie Paterson, Fossil Necklace, 2013, 170 Carved, rounded fossils, spanning geological time. Photo © MJC. Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
Katie Paterson’s work is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven, with an emphasis on nature and cosmology. Ideas presents her most recent work, including Fossil Necklace (for which Paterson was awarded the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award), which captures the history of our planet in a single string of beads.
Ideas also includes the culmination of Second Moon, a year-long project in which a fragment of the moon has been circling the earth via airfreight courier, landing, finally, in the Ingleby Gallery at the end of the exhibition. Other works include a series of meteorites, melted at several thousand degrees and recast from their own material as identical versions of their former selves.
Katie Paterson was born in Glasgow in 1981 and has already enjoyed widespread success, taking part in the Tate Triennial (2009) and exhibiting at Modern Art Oxford (2008) the Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2009), BALTIC, Gateshead (2010) and the BAWAG Foundation (2012). In 2013 she had solo shows at the Mead Gallery, Warwick, and Kettles Yard, Cambridge.
Ideas will be accompanied by a summer-long performance of Paterson's 2008 work Earth-Moon-Earth at Jupiter Artland.
Part of GENERATION, a landmark series of exhibitions celebrating 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland.
Mon–Sat, 10am-6pm
Sun (August only), 12-5pm
Events
31 July – 31 August 2014
100 Billion Suns
Various dates between 31 July - 31 August
1pm
Contact Ingleby Gallery on 0131 556 4441 or at [email protected] for more details.
2 August 2014
Artist Talk: Katie Paterson
11am
Free to attend, but please book tickets.
Jupiter Artland
Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon)
17 July – 28 September 2014
Katie Paterson's first solo exhibition will be held at Ingleby Gallery alongside her first exhibition at Jupiter Artland, where she will present Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon).
Earth-Moon-Earth (E.M.E) is a form of radio transmission whereby messages are sent in Morse code from Earth, reflected from the surface of the moon, and then received back on Earth. The moon reflects only part of the information back – some is absorbed in the shadows, 'lost' amongst the surface of the moon. In this case, the transmission is of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The returning code plays on a self-playing piano which mimics the interrupted signal and repeats the subtle flaws and changes absorbed in the transmission.
Paterson's capturing of these interruptions and flaws is commonly featured in her practice, which includes a multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven process, often combining elements that are both romantic and scientific. The artist's interest in nature, ecology and cosmology will be brought to Jupiter Artland's 2014 opening celebrations where Second Moon, a fragment of the moon couriered around the earth for one year, will be delivered.
In January 2014, Paterson was announced as the recipient of the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Visual Art.
Part of GENERATION, a landmark series of exhibitions celebrating 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland.
Thu-Sun, 10am-5pm
Day ticket: Adult £8.50, Children (6–16) £4.50
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Nr Wilkieston, EH27 8BB
01506 889 900