[2] At Goldsmiths he was included in the Freeze Exhibition organized by Damien Hirst, showing two wall text pieces, one simply showing the names Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the other, The Last Supper Arranged According to the Flat Back Four Formation (Jesus Christ in Goal) showing the names of the Apostles arranged as different football team systems with Jesus in goal.

Patterson is perhaps best known for his work The Great Bear from 1992, an editioned print that reworks the London Underground map.

[3] Patterson is taking an order system that exists within the world and applies it to another set of subjects.

[4] An edition was purchased by Charles Saatchi and was shown in the Sensation exhibition of 1997, which toured London, Berlin and New York.

[7] The project's goal for each Simon, Shirin Neshat and Xu Bing was to test the ramifications of the written word in their own unique perspective to be displayed at the Museum’s Fifty-third Street facade flanked by banners bearing MoMA's logo from 22 November 1999 to 1 May 2000.