Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson is a Scottish artist known for her innovative and conceptual art projects that explore themes of time, nature, and human experience. She is the creator of the Future Library project, which involves planting a forest of 1,000 trees in Norway that will be used to produce paper for an anthology of unpublished manuscripts to be released in 2114. Paterson's work often combines elements of science, literature, and the environment, inviting audiences to reflect on our relationship with the natural world and the passage of time. Through the Future Library, she challenges contemporary notions of authorship and readership, asking writers to envision a future beyond their own lifetimes.