Life From a Different Perspective Simon Patterson: High Noon

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Sat Feb 26-Sun May 1, Mon-Sat 11am-6pm; Sun noon-5pm, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, free, 0131 225 2383 In artist Simon Patterson's world, maps are there to be messed up, categories to be defied and conventions to be prodded and teased.

He envisages the last supper as a football match, in his classic drawing The Last Supper According to the Sweeper Formation, (Jesus Christ in Goal). His large-scale installation The General Assembly crosses a football stadium with a typewriter keyboard and somehow makes a point about the United Nations. His film, Escape Routine, crosses air steward etiquette with Harry Houdini.

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Life From a Different Perspective Simon Patterson: High Noon

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