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The Academicians' Gallery
The Academicians’ Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Glasgow-based artist Toby Paterson RSA (Elect), spanning a range of projects from the last two decades, including some never before shown in the UK.
With a focus on Paterson’s painting practice, A Short Guide to Towns Without Past also features a selection of relief works, studies and a new wall painting developed specifically for the Academicians’ Gallery. This latter component revisits a presentational methodology that seeks to render the gallery something of an analogue ‘landscape’ within which individual works sit, offering the opportunity for connections to be made between them without denying their autonomy and varied origins.
Presenting paintings, reliefs and prints in this manner offers an open invitation for viewers to engage in a version of the exploration that informed their making. Regardless of the mode of representation with a given work, his painting always begins from a subjective experience of place, building on formal aspects such as colour and materiality onwards through spatial qualities and into more the objective socio-political and historical considerations that haunt all cities. Paterson’s intent is to communicate the quotidian fascination that lies around every corner, offering the chance for singular perspectives within the complex, collective realities we inhabit.
