Rhona Warwick Paterson

Rhona is a visual artist, poet and research practitioner whose principle research interests have focussed on the contexts and processes of creativity in response to urban space. Rhona is currently Associate Artist for the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) till 2021 where she is responding to the survey exhibition Domestic Bliss, selected from Glasgow’s permanent collection and GoMA’s history as a home and Royal Exchange

Previous research work has included projects with The Pier Art Centre Orkney, The V&A London, Henry Moore Foundation, The University of Glasgow and Creative Scotland.  In 2006 her involvement in the Percent for Art regeneration of Gorbals in Glasgow was developed to the book Arcade: Artists and Place-making (Black Dog, 2006.) Published essays on artists include; Edmund de Waal, Clare Woods, Margaret Mellis, Haley Tomkins, Garth Evans and a catalogue for a survey show of female sculptors Modern Scottish Women at The National Galleries of Scotland.  In 2018 Rhona was awarded the Scottish Book Trust Prize for Poetry and recent commissions include a series of choreopoems for Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary, a trio of film-poems for The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh in collaboration with the dancer Eve Mutso, and recent publication of two chapbooks Putty and Armatures (Slo-Mo Books).