TOBY PATERSON

The works were made specifically for the Bricks Space and are intended to function within its unique disrepair. The gallery operates as a kind of cloistered zone and geometry and colour are Paterson’s lexicon, functioning as a cypher for his subjectivity. Each work arises from a generative process of drawing and painting. The consistent use of graphic form allows for a sensitivity to build up – an awareness of the effects of colour and proximity of line. The works are an attempt to make memory material, to transpose an emotion or a reckoning with place into paint. Often this reckoning involves the artist considering a relationship to a site that he has visited multiple times over the years. Ones that have become points of return, places of acute feeling. Emotions brought to a particular site enmesh with its spatial and visual qualities. The works are not narrative in this sense but seek to produce an analogue of Paterson’s experiences, while remaining open to interpretation.