Scots artist wins Beck's Futures

From: The Scotsman | Date: May 8, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

TOBY Paterson last night became the second Scottish artist in three years to win the Beck's Futures prize, when he collected a cheque for 24,000 pounds at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.

The prize has been described by the Face magazine as "a whole lot hipper" than its much-derided competitor, the Turner Prize, and is seen by some critics as the best yardstick for gauging the merits of emerging contemporary artists.

Mr Paterson, 28, wonfor a collection of work, the most striking of which was a large-scale, colour-rich wall painting, We Fall Into Patterns Quickly.

The work was ...

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