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Toby Paterson makes paintings, wall paintings, reliefs and constructions which explore the relationship between abstraction and reality. He has a keen interest in post-war modernist architecture, which he deconstructs both materially and politically, developing a practice in which some works are almost understandable as architecture, while others are expressions of purely abstract form.
His work is as engaged with the architecture of Denys Lasdun, Berthold Lubetkin, Cedric Price, and Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein at Gillespie Kidd & Coia as it is influenced by the constructivist painting of Kenneth and Mary Martin, Ben Nicholson and Victor Pasmore, yet it makes its meaning primarily as painting rather than urban planning or architectural model-making. This exhibition is an opportunity to explore both the complexity and the consistency of Paterson’s practice in the context of a new installation designed by the artist to show works made between 1999 and now, and a major new commission.
