Katie Paterson

Albion is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by London based Scottish artist Katie Paterson from 16 October – 14 November.

Paterson's work emerges from conceptual art strategies descending from sources as varied as John Cage, Yoko Ono and Chris Burden. Her first Albion exhibition will feature Sound of a Dying Star, Earth-Moon-Earth (4'33"), Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight and Lifetime of Moonlight.

Working with scientists and engineers, Paterson employs industrial research and production methods to create works of great poetic resonance. For example, in Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight, Paterson has worked with specialists to create a moonlight equivalent to the now widely used "daylight" bulb. In this work, the artist provides a quantity of bulbs sufficient to provide a person with a lifetime supply of moonlight (based on the current average life-span for a human being alive in 2008).

Paterson's recent works include Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) – the transmission of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back, the resultant fragmented composition being played back on a self-playing grand piano; and Vatnajökull (the sound of), a live phone line to an Icelandic glacier. Upon dialling a telephone number, individual listeners could hear the sounds of distant melting ice, from anywhere in the world at any time. Both works were first presented at Paterson's MFA degree show at Slade School of Fine Art in 2007 and restaged at her acclaimed solo show at Modern Art Oxford this year.

Notes to editors

Katie Paterson has recently had solo shows in Matthew Bown Gallery, ROOM and Modern Art Oxford. Concurrent with her solo Albion show, she will be exhibiting in a group show in Tsekh Gallery, Kiev. Paterson will also be participating in Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009. In the spring of 2009 she will have a companion exhibition to her Albion London exhibition in the Prince Street gallery of Albion New York.

Katie Paterson at Albion, London