Simon Patterson biography in Biographies from the artzine on artrepublic.comOne of Simon Pattersons best known works is The Great Bear, where he replaced the names of stations on the London Underground map with names of philosophers, film stars, explorers, saints and other celebrities. By transforming authoritative data with his own associations he challenges existing rationales. He is fascinated by the information which orders our lives. Patterson humorously dislocates and subverts sources of information such as maps, diagrams and constellation charts such as replacing the names of star constellations with the history of a heavy metal band. Simon Patterson was born in Leatherhead, Surrey in 1967. Between 1985 and 1989 he attended Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College. In 1996 Patterson was nominated for the Turner Prize and has exhibited widely in both group and solo shows in the UK and internationally. His work is included in the Tate Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and many other international collections. Browse Prints
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