Glasgow’s Modern Institute is showing Interior Garden, featuring work by Toby Paterson RSA (elect), who was born in the city, and still lives there. Toby studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. His distinguished career and striking work, based on perceptions of the modern built environment, have led to several accolades such the Beck’s Futures Prize, a Creative Scotland Award, RSA election, and a 2007 commission by BBC Scotland for an artwork outside its then-new headquarters at the city’s Pacific Quay.

Light, colour, geometry and texture form the basis of Toby Paterson’s practice. The exhibition’s title refers to the themes of reflection, solace and memory which define this new body of paintings, marking a turn away from the complex installations and assemblages to more poetic compositions. Cities such as Glasgow, their post-war reinvention and modernist architecture are his prime inspiration, alongside his physical experience of a place (often on skateboarding journeys), and his work includes wall-drawings, paintings and sculptural installations.

The works were made specifically for the Bricks Space at the Modern Institute and are intended to function within its state of disrepair. Each work arises from a generative process of drawing and painting, in an attempt to make memory material, to transpose into paint an emotion or a reckoning with place.

Also showing is Monika Sosnowska: Broken Glass Dirt and Dust, in which the Polish sculptor uses rebar, glass, concrete and steel to suggest material and political collapse in her homeland in the late 1980s and early 90s.