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Simon Patterson
Shortlisted: 1996

Patterson is fascinated by the information which orders our lives. He humorously dislocates and subverts sources of information such as maps, diagrams and constellation charts; one of his best known works is The Great Bear, in which 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.

Simon Patterson was born in Leatherhead, Surrey in 1967. Betweeh 1985 and 1989 he attended Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College. In 1996 Patterson was nominated for the Prize for his solo exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery in Prague, and his three separate solo shows in Japan.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Simon Patterson in the Tate Collection