Turner Contemporary presents Katie Paterson & JMW Turner: A place that exists only in moonlight (2019)

Over the last 10 years Katie Paterson (born 1981, Glasgow) has developed a unique art practice exploring our relationship with the vastness and wonder of the universe; our desire to see the un-seeable, to know the un-knowable. She collaborates with scientists and other experts to create artworks that delve into the cosmos, deep space and time, light and perception, geology and the material world.

Paterson has worked with NASA to determine the scent of Saturn’s moon and the European Space Agency to send a meteorite back to space. “I am asking people to access all they know” she says. Her subtle yet expansive works condense vast depths of space and time into everyday objects and technologies – inviting us to stretch the limits of our imaginations.

In 2019 we presented Paterson’s largest UK show to date, conceived by the artist as “an exhibition full of ideas”. It brought together the majority of her existing work with new commissions and over thirty of Paterson’s Ideas – artworks to exist in the imagination –interspersed with a selection of watercolour sketches by Turner Contemporary’s namesake, JMW Turner.

Virtual Tour with artist Katie Paterson; Victoria Pomery, Director; and Fiona Parry, Senior Curator at Turner Contemporary

Join artist Katie Paterson; Victoria Pomery, and Director; and Fiona Parry, Senior Curator at Turner Contemporary for a virtual tour of A place that exists only in moonlight (2019).