Simon Patterson (artist)

Simon Patterson (born 1967) is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery, and three shows in Japan. He is the younger brother of the painter Richard Patterson.

Life and career
Patterson attended Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College between 1985 and 1989. At Goldsmiths he was included in the Freeze Exhibition organized by Damien Hirst, showing two wall text pieces, one simply showing the names Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the other, The Last Supper Arranged According to the Flat Back Four Formation (Jesus Christ in Goal) showing the names of the Apostles arranged as different football team systems with Jesus in goal.

Patterson is perhaps best known for his work The Great Bear from 1992, an editioned print that reworks the London Underground map. Patterson is taking an order system that exists within the world and applies it to another set of subjects. In this case, he switched the names from the stations with names from famous people. Each Line is a different group of people, like actors, philosophers, footballers etc. An edition was purchased by Charles Saatchi and was shown in the Sensation exhibition of 1997, which toured London, Berlin and New York. An edition is in the Tate Gallery collection and is currently on display at Tate Britain in London.

Patterson has also created large-scale projects such as Cosmic Wallpaper at the University of Warwick, a Wilfred Owen tribute (Maison Forestière), and he also participated in the MoMA's The Project Series, 70, Banners I. The project's goal for each Simon, Shirin Neshat and Xu Bing was to test the ramifications of the written word in their own unique perspective to be displayed at the Museum’s Fifty-third Street facade flanked by banners bearing MoMA's logo from 22 November 1999 to 1 May 2000.

Simon Patterson was a staff member at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Video

 * BBC News Magazine - Wilfred Owen: From humble cottage to dazzling tribute
 * BBC Collective - Simon Patterson video interview
 * Haunch of Venison - Simon Patterson video interview for Under Cartel Exhibition

Books

 * Eye on Europe, Museum of Modern Art, ISBN 0870703714
 * Paint Ten Rooms, Locus and International Design Publishing - ISBN 0955482542
 * Domini Canes: The Hounds of God - Publisher: Axis Projects - ISBN 0955482542
 * Paper Democracy: Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper - Publisher: Associacao Cultura Inglesa de Sao Paulo - ISBN 8598735019
 * Simon Patterson - Publisher: Locus+ - ISBN 1899377166
 * Plantation Lane: Time and Tide, RIBA Publishing - ISBN 1859461735
 * Republicans, Third Eye Centre - ISBN 0906474825
 * High Noon, Edinburgh - ISBN 0947912886
 * Simon Patterson: Black-list - Publisher: Haunch of Venison, c2006 - ISBN 190562008X
 * Rex Reason, Book Works - ISBN 1870699130
 * Offside! Contemporary Artists & Football, Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA) - ISBN 0901673501