Seasons Greetings from all at Workplace Gallery

Image: Eric Bainbridge   Untitled, Collage, 29.6 x 21 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK     Seasons Greetings from all at Workplace Gallery We are pleased to confirm that our current solo exhibition by Paul Merrick is extended until Saturday 21st January 2012. To view the exhibition on our website click here http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/_36/ Opening times; Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment) Seasonal opening times; Closed from Thursday 22nd December 2011 - Tuesday 3rd January 2012

Workplace Gallery at NADA Art Fair Miami 2011

Image: Marcus Coates Intellegent Design, 2009, Single Channel HD Video (16:9) Duration 8:00 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Workplace Gallery at NADA Art Fair 2011 Booth 804, Le Jardin NADA Art Fair Miami The Deauville Beach Resort 6701 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33141 1st - 4th December http://www.newartdealers.org/ Eric Bainbridge Darren Banks Sophie Lisa Beresford Marcus Coates Jo Coupe Laura Lancaster Paul Merrick Mike Pratt Cecilia Stenbom Matt Stokes for a full list of available works please email: info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Richard Rigg: The Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, UK

Workplace Gallery is very pleased to announce the participation of Richard Rigg in this years Northern Art Prize Shortlist. Northern Art Prize 2011 25th November 2011 - 19th January 2012 Private View - Thursday 24 November 2011 6pm at Leeds Art Gallery Shortlisted artists: Liadin Cooke Leo Fitzmaurice James Hugonin  Richard Rigg The Northern Art Prize 2011 exhibition takes place at Leeds Art Gallery from 25 November 2011 to 19 February 2012. The winner will be announced on 19 January 2012 and will receive £16,500, with each of the runners up receiving £1,500. Now in its fifth year, the Northern Art Prize is an annual prize for contemporary visual artists of any age or nationality, working in any media and living in the North of England. Celebrating the quality and diversity of artists working in our region, the Northern Art Prize exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery showcases the work of the four shortlisted artists Liadin Cooke, Leo Fitzmaurice, James Hugonin and Richard Rigg. The winning artist will be selected by this year%u2019s judges %u2013 Caroline Douglas (Head, Arts Council Collection), Tim Marlow (Broadcaster, Art Historian and Director of Exhibitions, White Cube Gallery), Simon Starling (Artist and Turner Prize Winner), Simon Wallis (Director, The Hepworth Wakefield) and Sarah Brown (Curator of Exhibitions, Leeds Art Gallery). www.northernartprize.org.uk Image: Richard Rigg, I forgot what was said when we were outside, stood empty, now without those words I fell back, 2010, Telegraph poles, Wire, 672 x 15 cm and 660 x 14 cm. Private Collection, USA/UK. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Paul Merrick: Preview - Friday 18th November, 6-9pm at Workplace Gallery

Image: Untitled (Blue) 2011 (detail) Aluminium, Dust, 69 x 78 courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK.   Paul Merrick Preview: Friday 18th November 2011 , 6 - 9pm Exhibition continues: 19th November - 17th December 2011 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment) Workplace Gallery are pleased to announce our first solo exhibition by Paul Merrick. Paul Merrick combines painting with sculpture, and the made with the ready-made. Investigating colour, form, and architectural and spatial arrangement in relationship to Painting as a subject and discipline in and of itself; Merrick's new work is the result of a sustained interrogation of painting and process in relation to the found object. Untitled 2011 is a commanding steel structure that refers to a found metal armature. Merrick has played with status of the original object, first simplifying its linear form then amplifying it to create an oversize almost comical object, which loses its function entirely. Finished with an industrial yellow powder coat paint finish, an oversize leatherette cushion upholstered in the style of Mies Van Der Rohe's Barcelona Chair, and inserted planes of sterling board that serve both to delineate and interrupt the space within the structure, and as proxy to painterly brushstrokes. Untitled invites us to reconsider our initial haptic and perceptual encounters with objects whilst proposing a reassessment of the semiological status of material and form in relation to design, style and function. Merrick's light works again substitute found and functional material for painterly mark and gesture. Untitled (Big Plate) 2011 is a drawing of a found glass plate using fluorescent green strip lights. The plate has been removed creating a simple frame of light interrupted by the black rubber flex looped across the picture plane. In Merrick's work the accidental and contingent mark is given status that is knowingly bartered with the historical canon of modernity. This approach is extended in Merrick's new series of 'Found Paintings'. Carefully selected objects such as used and discarded scrap metal, table tops, and dusty panels are presented as Paintings, challenging the viewer to look beyond speculation about former use and action, towards acceptance of each object and surface as aesthetically final and complete, a reclamation and assertion of Painting through the artistic legacy of the found object. Merrick's works draw influences from disparate sources, referencing the luxury of 50's and 60's interior design of West Coast America, the murder scenes of Helmut Newton, Color Film Noir, and the post industrial landscape of North East England. Salvaged form the local scrap yard these works lead a double life: both as autonomous objects and as Mise-en-scène. As such they imply an event or act that occurs outside of the work, ambiguous and with no substantiation except for the intimated luxury or seediness of material and colour the works become both sinister and erotic. Paul Merrick was born in 1973 in Oxford, UK. He lives and works in Gateshead and Newcastle, UK. The next exhibition at Workplace Gallery will be a solo exhibition of new work by Cath Campbell opening in 2012. To celebrate the opening of Paul Merrick please join us afterwards at Central Bar in Gateshead. Workplace Gallery was founded in 2005 by artists Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow. Based in Gateshead UK, Workplace Gallery represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and international art fairs. Workplace Gallery is currently at The Old Post Office, Gateshead; a listed 19th Century red brick building built upon the site where the important British artist, engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) lived and died. Kindly supported by

Catherine Bertola: 'From Trash to Treasure' Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

Catherine Bertola, After the Fact, 2006, Found dust and sound, Dimensions Variable, Courtesy the artist and Workplace Gallery From Trash to Treasure Kunsthalle zu Kiel 5th November 2011 - 5th February 2012 Arman Catherine Bertola Joseph Beuys Karsten Bott George Brecht Jürgen Brodwolf Pavel Büchler Peter Buggenhout Christo Tony Cragg Jürgen Drescher Marcel Duchamp Sylvie Fleury Gilbert & George Natascha Sadr Haghighian Tina Hauser Jan Henderickse Robert Jacobsen Ray Johnson Asger Jorn Arthur Køpcke Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky Korpys/Löffler Alicia Kwade Urs Lüthi Gordon Matta Clark Olaf Metzel Bruno Mouron & Pascal Rostain Wilhelm Mundt Vik Muniz Raffael Rheinsberg Gerd Rohling Dieter Roth Karin Sander HA Schult Kurt Schwitters Daniel Spoerri Johann Strandahl Philip Topolovac Jacques de la Villeglé Wolf Vostell Robert Watts Diet Wiegman Markus Zimmermann The state of a civilization may be read from the way it deals with trash, as Jean Jaques Lacan put it. We are, so to speak, what we throw away. Degrading an object, a topic or a situation by labeling it trash, is a long-established strategy affecting all layers of society, and it is also a part of our contemporary everyday culture. The recent financial crisis was accompanied by talk about trash papers, there is talk about trash slicks on the oceans, of space trash and trash culture. At the same time, issues like recycling, revaluation and diversified use of these residues are moving more and more into focus. The exhibition From Trash to Treasure. The Value of the Worthless within Art presents a selection of artistic strategies dating from the early 20th century until today,  altogether dealing with trash - a topic equally hot politically, economically and  culturally - with its definition, its potential and its utilization. http://www.kunsthalle-kiel.de/ausstellungen/trash.html

WORKPLACE GALLERY AT ARTISSIMA 18 | SOLO PRESENTATION BY ERIC BAINBRIDGE

Image: Eric Bainbridge The Mind of the Artist (Exposed), 2011 Steel, Blanket 127 x 190 x 190 cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Workplace Gallery is pleased to present new work by Eric Bainbridge Stand 13: Azzurro/Light Blue Corridoio/Hall Artissima 18 Oval Lingotto Fiere - Turin 4th - 6th November 2011 http://www.artissima.it/ for a full list of available works please email: info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Workplace Gallery at The Manchester Contemporary , UK. 27 - 30 October 2011

Image:  Richard Rigg Cloth Arranged to Look Like a Jacket (Self Portrait) 2010, Cloth, 10 x 60 x 44cm. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Workplace Gallery is pleased to announce our participation at The Manchester Contemporary Works by: Sophie Lisa Beresford Jacob Dahlgren Laura Lancaster Richard Rigg The Manchester Contemporary Spinningfields, Manchester, UK http://www.themanchestercontemporary.co.uk/ 27 - 30 October 2011 For a full list of available works please contact info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Banks, Bainbridge, Bertola, Campbell, Coupe, Douglas, Lancaster, Merrick, Pratt: "Business Collectors Network" Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK

Business Collectors Network Exhibition Globe Gallery, Newcastle 15th October - 26th November 2011 Darren Banks Eric Bainbridge Catherine Bertola Cath Campbell Alex Charrington Jo Coupe Jennifer Douglas Jorn Ebner Dan Holdsworth Ben Jeans Houghton Laura Lancaster Paul Merrick Jock Mooney Michael Mulvihill Stephen Palmer Simon Parish Mike Pratt Anne Vibeke Mou This show brings together all of the Business Collectors Network's aquisitions for the first time.  All artists in the collection are either living or working in the North East of England. The Sponsors Club works to increase private sector engagement in culture in the North East by advocating, researching, creating and developing partnerships to support individuals and businesses to engage, give money, time and expertise; and give cultural partners skills, structures and engagement tools. The Business Collectors Network is one of these partnerships. The partners in the network are: Arup, Blue River, The Express Group, NewcastleGateshead Initiative, Ryders, Sage plc, Ward Hadaway, Banks Group and Xsite Architecture. Image: Mike Pratt Snakes On A Plane (Cumberland Sausage), 2009 Oil and spray paint on canvas 228 x 170 cms 89.83 x 66.98 inches (MP0107)

Darren Banks: "Seeing in the Dark - A Group Show" CIRCA site, Newcastle, UK

Seeing in the Dark - A Group Show Preview: Wednesday 19 October, 6 - 9 pm Exhibition continues: 19 October - 12 November 2011 CIRCA Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne Featuring work by John Adams, Kevin Atherton, Darren Banks, Jon Bewley, Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett, Noel Clueit, David Critchley, Benedict Drew, Mat Fleming, Ken Gill, Richard Grayson, Emma Hart, Tina Keane, John Kippin, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Stephen Partridge, Heather Phillipson, Peter Todd, Maria Theodoraki, Belinda Williams Seeing in the Dark is an exhibition and series of events inspired by artist run groups from the 1970s and '80s, such as Newcastle's Ayton Basement and Basement Group, and London's 2B Butler's Wharf. These groups were formed by artists with diverse practices (music, performance, film and video) inhabiting vacant industrial spaces to produce opportunistic and eclectic events. Over four weeks Seeing in the Dark will occupy one floor of Curtis Mayfield House, a one time industrial space a stone's throw from the original Basement Group venue, to celebrate the influence and legacy of those artist-run spaces, extending this into the present with a contemporary focus. The exhibition will revisit key works from the '70s and '80s by artists associated with those groups among others, alongside contemporary media and performance artists' work, bringing together moving image and live performance by some of the most innovative artists working in the UK, from the past thirty years to the present day. These are hybrid cross-disciplinary, sometimes collaborative works that reverberate with a spirit of playfully serious enquiry and exploration; they are often wry, humorous and irreverent, revelling in language and wordplay, realised through film, video, spoken word, musical performance and installation. image: Darren Banks Clusterfuck 2 (Don't Look In The Basement Remix), 2011 (Still) Video Duration 05:10 Minutes (Looped) (DB0066) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Sophie Lisa Beresford: 'Empty Orchestra', Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

Sophie Lisa Beresford, Pizza Shop Dance, 2008, Single Channel Video, 04:06 minutes looped, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery Empty Orchestra Curated by Georgie Park & Samuel Rodgers 13 - 23 October, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Empty Orchestra is the literal translation of karaoke. This Second Gallery exhibition will be a working lounge bar including works by Dom Allen, Sophie Lisa Beresford, Stephen Cornford, Petra Cortright, Flat Soufflée, Rob Gawthrop, Christopher Gladwin, Laura James & Samuel Rodgers, Maria Minerva, Pete McPartlan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Alex Peverett and Gillian Wylde. Artists interrogate, dismantle, displace, replace and rebuild the tools and contexts of musical performance. From the use of instruments in extended ways, and playful explorations of audio/visual interferences, to work that abandons precision to embrace 'shoddiness', the exhibition brings together the slick and the shabby, the engineered and the experimental. Performances: 7-8.30pm Saturday 15 October Jack Harris & Samuel Rodgers / Robert Curgenven & Katrin Bethge 7-9pm Friday 21 October Dom Allen / Flat Soufflée / ICASEA-Yperdimensional Taikyokuken 7-8.30pm Saturday 22 October Rob Gawthrop Pete McPartlan Part of The Event and Supersonic Festival http://the-event.org/ http://supersonicfestival.com/ http://emptyorchestra.org/

Wolfgang Weileder: "Stilt House" hub to hub, Singapore ArchiFest 2011, Singapore

Wolfgang Weileder  STILT HOUSE Hub to Hub consists of 7 Multidisciplinary teams from Singapore and around the world, made up of architects, artists, designers, technologists and businessmen, are selected to participate in the Hub-to-Hub public art program. They will develop 7 temporary installations and provide alternative ideas of public spaces and programmes to enliven the City's urban and forgotten spaces in Bras Basah.Bugis - the Arts, Culture, Learning and Entertainment Hub of Singapore. These projects will animate the various chosen sites during the Singapore ArchiFest 2011, and demonstrate the ability of temporary interventions to act as agents to interrogate public space and present new possibilities for physical and programmatic use. Date of Exhibition: 14 Oct to 4 Nov 2011 Venue of Exhibition: Bras Basah.Bugis TEAM EUROPE / DHOBY GHAUT GREEN TEAM Prof Wolfgang Weileder (Art, UK), Prof Simon Guy (Architecture, UK), Oliver Heidrich (Recycling Technology, UK) DESIGN STATEMENT STILT HOUSE is a site-specific artwork consisting of two interconnected structures that are made from recycled plastic waste. Sited at Dhoby Ghaut Green, the architectural installation offers, through it's perforated black walls, an elevated and translucent perspective on the surrounding land and cityscape. By reinterpreting this traditional housing typology, that was originally made from sustainable local materials and was ecologically adapted to the specific climate and landscape, the STILT HOUSE encourages us to rethink our relationship with the environment we inhabit. It also confronts us with the debris of our consumer society in the unexpected form of an innovative building material that translates waste into new productive and aesthetic uses. JURY CITATIONS Jury Citations: The Malay stilt house typology is very interesting in terms of environmental sustainability. It is thus relevant to the local context, questioning our cultural and environmental awareness as there are not many stilt houses left in urbanised Singapore.

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Darren Banks: "The Art of Fear" Nighthawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

The Art of Fear Takeshi Murata Darren Banks Jamie Shovlin My Barbarian Aida Ruilova Marnie Weber Previews: Wednesday 9th & Wednesday 15th October 2011 The infectiousness of horror cinema has spawned a generation of artists who explode conventional expectations of how horror is expressed and consumed. Hosted by Nighthawk Cinema in Brooklyn, The Art of Fear exposes this provocative relationship between horror film and visual art in a program of video and film works by international contemporary artists who glean from the structural, narrative and aesthetic style of horror cinema.

'Double, Double' - Preview: Friday 30th September, 6-9pm Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Image:  Rachel Lancaster Curtains 2011 (detail) colour photograph, 8 x 10inches, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK     Double, Double Eric Bainbridge Noel Clueit Marcus Coates Jo Coupe Jacob Dahlgren Rachel Foullon Dean Hughes Rachel Lancaster Eftihis Patsourakis Preview: Friday 30th September 2011 , 6 - 9pm Exhibition continues: 1st October - 5th  November 2011 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment) Kindly supported by

Matt Stokes: "Cantata Profana" Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

Matt Stokes Cantata Profana BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead Quays South Shore Road Gateshead NE8 3BA UK www.balticmill.com 24 September 2011 - 7 October 2011 19, 20 and 21 of October 2011 Matt Stokes' remarkable video and audio installation takes the form of an amphitheatre of screens presenting a new musical composition, created in collaboration with the leading British composer Orlando Gough and six grindcore vocalists. Cantata Profana interweaves extreme metal music culture with classical choral traditions, resulting in this unexpected union. The intense sound and body movements of the vocalists together with the backdrop of the outdated GDR radio studio in which the piece was filmed, all contribute to the atmosphere of this unique and immersive work. image: Matt Stokes Cantata Profana, 2010 Six-channel HD video and audio transferred to synced hard-drives Duration 06:48 minutes, looped Commissioned by Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Germany. Produced by Forma, UK. Supported by De Hallen Haarlem, Netherlands and Arts Council England. Photo: Nils Kilinger Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Mike Pratt & Cecilia Stenbom: New Lights, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate, UK

Workplace Gallery is pleased to annouce that Mike Pratt and Cecilia Stenbom have been shortlisted for the first New Lights Arts Award. The Valeria Sykes Prize exhibition will be held at The Mercer Art Gallery Swan Road Harrogate HG1 2SA Visit http://www.newlights.org.uk/prize for more details. Paintings by 24 artists have been shortlisted from 232 entries for the £10,000 New Lights award by a panel of independent judges. The judges are Kate Brindley, Director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and a National Advisor for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Funding Programme; Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Arts Society, and the artist William Tillyer. The winner will be announced on 22 September. The prize comprises a mixture of money (£10,000), guidance and mentoring. The 2011 prize is named the Valeria Sykes Prize, after the main sponsor, was open to artists aged 23-35 who either live or gained an arts degree in the North of England. images: left: Mike Pratt Cobra, 2011 Oil and enamel on canvas, Heineken cans 280 x 220 cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK right: Cecilia Stenbom You've Had Me Again, 2010 Acrylic Paint on Perspex 180 x 220 cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Eric Bainbridge - Video Show, CIRCA Screen, Sunderland

Eric Bainbridge 'One Sausage' 1993, single channel video, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery Eric Bainbridge - Video Show 21 September  -  21 October Preview Tuesday 20 September  6 - 8 pm CIRCA Screen ThePlace, Atheneaum Street Sunderland SR1 1QX circaprojects.org Join Eric Bainbridge In Conversation with British Art Show 7 artist & Modern British Sculpture co-curator, Keith Wilson To book a place at the In Conversation event on the preview night, please email rebecca@contemporaryartsociety.org The exhibition Video Show is the first time Eric Bainbridge has shown his works in this medium as stand-alone projections presented in a cinematic context. Previously, these works have been presented as objects themselves, on gallery monitors amongst other three dimensional work. Whilst his three dimensional works are internationally renowned, Bainbridge's videos remain a relatively unconsidered aspect of his extensive body of work. Bainbridge first began using video to document objects and incidents in the studio nearly twenty years ago, at a time when his entire way of working was changing dramatically. The process of making video has played a key part in Bainbridge's thirty-five year long career, marking a turning point between his fur-clad sculptures of the 1980s, and his experimental and increasingly complex work during the 1990s. Bainbridge's early videos use the static shot to show sculptural works in time; inviting us to look again at what a sculpture is and can be as well as thinking deeper about the act of looking. In later videos, more incidental moments are captured with equal amounts of humour and philosophical play. Over the past 35 years, Eric Bainbridge has created an extensive body of work and become best known for his sculptures and collages, which have been exhibited internationally, including at Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (1986), The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1989), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003) mima, Middlesbrough (2007), and recently in Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London (2010).

CLUB PONDEROSA / FRI 26TH & 27TH AUG, 8PM - 12AM / SILVER FOX / D'ASTRO / CATH & PHIL TYLER / NWAVI / MAN WITH FEATHERS / DJs

CLUB PONDEROSA presents: FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST, 8PM-12AM SILVER FOX D'ASTRO CATH & PHIL TYLER BRITANIC GAMMA LANTERN (DJ SETS) Making waves up and down the coast, Newcastle's all female band Silver Fox will 'break your hearts and blow your minds' with their mix of noisy lo-fi pop, minimal beats and wistful lyrics. Now imagine a surf band when the only surf they have ever witnessed is off a sewage-streaked radioactive beach in the northwest of England - and you have d'Astro. Sarcastic barking and discordant guitars compete with a stampede of drummage to make an entertaining post-punk racket. Firmly back on land, and needing no introduction, local Anglo-American duo Cath & Phil Tyler offer their unique blend of traditional and experimental folk music combined into a beautiful, raw, heartfelt sound that will ripple through your head long after the night is over. For your enjoyment, the evening will be accompanied by DJ sets from Britanic Gamma Lantern. SATURDAY 27TH AUGUST, 8PM-12AM NWAVI MAN WITH FEATHERS PHIPPS (DJ SETS) A rare chance to hear live sets from both Nwavi (Peter J. Evans) and Man With Feathers (Adam Parkinson) under the same roof ... with Phipps providing the excursions on vinyl ... Both nights are FREE ADMISSION & with Donation Bar CLUB PONDEROSA is located at: Workplace Gallery 19/21 West Street Gateshead NE8 1AD Entrance is behind Lloyds TSB bank on Lambton Street Travel info: Metro: Gateshead: 1 minute walk Bus: Gateshead Interchange: 1 minute walk By car, bike and foot: as long as it takes, nearby street parking and council car parks Club Ponderosa is a hybrid space designed by Matt Stokes to operate as part meeting house, nightclub, theatre, village hall and social club. Stokes first established Club Ponderosa during an artist's residency at 176, London. Drawing from the history of the building which was formerly a Methodist Chapel, and once home to the famous London Drama Centre, the aim of the club was to create an informal and flexible social-space that would foster new encounters between groups, and act as a catalyst for the creation of events designed and programmed in collaboration with people living or working in the Camden area. Club Ponderosa is also home to MASS, a sound system fabricated from donated parts and online speaker designs, which is pivotal to the functioning of the club.

NADA Hudson: Laura Lancaster - New Sculpture, July 30-31, Hudson, NY, USA

Image: Laura Lancaster, Untitled, 2011, Plaster and Enamel, 99 x 32 x 22 cm, 39 x 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 in (LL0446) Workplace Gallery presents New Sculpture by Laura Lancaster at NADA Hudson 2011. Laura Lancaster's work is extracted from an archive of anonymous photographs procured from thrift stores and flea markets. Mediated through painting, and most recently sculpture, her work transposes the forgotten and discarded snap-shots of strangers' lives into a ambiguous territory between abstraction and figuration. Divorcing her subjects from their specific context and time, Lancaster relocates them to a place of collective memory and experience that resonates with our own. Laura Lancaster's work oscillates between the nostalgic sentimentality of the celebratory moment, and the melancholic poignancy of the past. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like Winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe. This punctum, more or less blurred beneath the abundance and the disparity of contemporary photographs, is vividly legible in historical photographs: there is always a defeat of Time in them: that is dead and that is going to die. Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida Laura Lancaster was born in 1979 and lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Recent exhibitions include Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2010), Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (2010), Hilary Crisp, London (2009). Green On Red Gallery, Dublin (2009), Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2008), Museum of Modern Art St Etienne (2008), Palazzo Della Arti Napoli (2006), Museum of Modern Art Oxford (2006) Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2005). For further information or enquiries please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk NADA Hudson July 30-31, 2011 11am - 7pm 110 South Front Street Hudson NY, 12534 Admission is free and open to the public. The New Art Dealers Alliance and Basilica Hudson are pleased to announce NADA Hudson, a large scale exhibition featuring 51 projects presented by NADA members and affiliates. NADA Hudson is not an art fair, but rather a site-specific project for the New Art Dealers Alliance, which will build upon the character of a historic venue in showcasing contemporary sculpture, installation and performance. The Basilica Hudson, built in 1884 as a foundry and forge for the manufacture of steel railway wheels, is the last great 19th century building on the Hudson waterfront. NADA is grateful for the team at Basilica Hudson who offer a home for the artistic and cultural community at large. NADA Hudson will occupy nearly 8,000 square feet of indoor space, a theatre space and well over 10,000 square feet of outdoor space. Hudson, New York is becoming a popular satellite city for cultural activity. Hudson is home to many dealers specializing in antiques and decorative arts, while also attracting international artists like Marina Abromovic and Jason Middlebrook. Hudson is very accessible to visitors from New York City. Trains run frequently to Hudson about every hour leaving from Pennsylvania Station and the ride is about 2 hours. As always NADA Hudson will be free and open to the public. NADA Hudson includes projects presented by: Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York BIPOLART, New York Brennan & Griffin, New York Bureau, New York Callicoon Fine Arts, Callicoon CANADA, New York Christopher Crescent, London Clifton Benevento, New York DCKT, New York Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles Ditto Device, New York DODGEgallery, New York Dunham Place Salon, New York Derek Eller Gallery, New York Evil Freaks II, New York Feature Inc., New York Zach Feuer Gallery, New York James Fuentes LLC, New York Golden Gallery, Chicago/New York Graham, New York Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (hi)story labor(atory), Hudson The Hole, New York Humble Arts Foundation, New York Invisible-Exports, New York La MaMa Gallery, New York Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York ltd los angeles, Los Angeles moniquemeloche, Chicago The Movement Party, Brooklyn Museum 52, New York Newman Popiashvili, New York New York Fine Arts, Brooklyn NON, Istanbul Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park Franklin Parrasch, New York Pianissimo, Milan Ramiken Crucible, New York Rawson Projects, Brooklyn Regina Rex, Brooklyn Second Floor, New York Silverman Gallery, San Francisco Taxter Spengemann, New York Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York Untitled, New York Kate Werble Gallery, New York West Street, New York Workplace Gallery, Gateshead

Matt Stokes: "Nuestro tiempo (Our Time)" Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain

Matt Stokes Nuestro tiempo (Our Time) Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo(CAAC), Seville, Spain Date: 21 July - 6 November 2011 Exhibition Session: Song as a Force of Social Transformation http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/caac/ Exploring notions of collectivity, lifestyles and beliefs that emerge out of musical encounters, is what characterizes the work of Matt Stokes (United Kingdom, 1973). Enquiry is a fundamental part of his methodology, whereby works are initiated through undertaking meticulous research that enables him to familiarize himself with the music scenes he explores. Stokes makes contact with groups that interest him and investigates their origins, histories and values. He seeks out the characteristics of each location - folk music in Camden and Newcastle, England, Northern soul in Dundee, Scotland, punk rock in Austin, Texas - and gets involved with each community in order to question, celebrate and transform aspects of these influential scenes into artworks. Collaboration and collective authorship are two of the central pillars of this working process, a collection of impressions, stories and materials which he draws on to create films, installations, musical works and events. Nuestro tiempo (Our Time), Matt Stokes's first solo exhibition in Spain, offers a selection of his most emblematic works. Real Arcadia (2003) documents the acid house raves held in isolated rural settings (the so-called "cave raves") in the Lake District region of Great Britain in the late 1980s. Long After Tonight (2005) focuses on Northern soul, a music and dance genre which emerged during the 1960s in the north of United Kingdom. these are the days (2008-09) explores the efficacy and actuality of punk rock as a widespread phenomenon in Austin, Texas (United States). The Gainsborough Packet (2008-09) is a film set in the early 19th century, against the backdrop of the dramatic transformation of urban life brought about by industrialization, where the dialog is sung and presented in folk-pop style. Finally, Cantata Profana (2010), the multi-screen video installation that concludes the exhibition, features six extreme metal vocalists performing an immersive choral composition. image: Matt Stokes Cantata Profana, 2010 Six-channel HD video and audio transferred to synced hard-drives Duration 06:48 minutes, looped (MS0048) Photograph: Nils Klinger Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Sophie lisa Beresford: "Friendship of the Peoples" Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, UK

Friendship of the Peoples 23 June - 23 July 2011 Private View: 22 June 2011, 18.30-20.30 Brian Griffiths | Bridget Smith | Brighid Lowe | Caline Aoun | Daniel Wallis | Daniel Sturgis | Eddie Peake | Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings | Fiona Banner | Gabriel Hartley | Jack Newling | Jaime Gili | James Howard | Jane Harris | Joel Croxson | Julian King | Katie Cuddon | Katrina Blannin | Kraig Wilson | Leo Fitzmaurice | Luci Pizzani | Luey Graves | Mandy Ure | Mark Pearson | Martina Schmuecker | Matthew Higgs | Michael Dean | Neil Rumming | Nick Goss | Patricia Ellis | Paul Johnson | Rhys Coren | Richard Kirwan | Robert Pratt | Roy Voss | Sascha Baunig | Sophie Lisa Beresford | Stalla Capes | Tillman Kaiser | Tim Ellis Friendship of the Peoples invites twenty artists to propose one other, to build a community of forty artists, all showing uniform size works on paper. Text based or image led, the core unifying factor is that all artists have created a work that is rooted in the idea of a poster. This dynamic exhibition includes photography, painting, print, collage and drawing; exploring our willingness to conform and belong to a community, whilst at the same time expressing a desire to strike out and assert our identity. Crucially, there is no overt or deliberate shared intent or theme, other than the artists uniting around the ethos of a poster; a powerful tool of mass communication. The collective works will function as a group that sits somewhere between a communicative role and the symbolic; allowing an engagement with the individual existing within a community. The forty works will have come from each artist's particular journey but together will reflect the rousing nature of the poster and the calling to peoples to take part in an event which may be fleeting but captures the spirit of the time.

Club Ponderosa at Workplace Gallery, Friday 24th June 8pm - 11pm

Club Ponderosa at Workplace Gallery Bong Skull Kontrol Totem Recall plus DJ's 24th June 2011 8pm - 11pm admission free Club Ponderosa is a hybrid space designed by Matt Stokes to operate as part meeting house, nightclub, theatre, village hall and social club. Stokes first established Club Ponderosa during an artist's residency at 176, London. Drawing from the history of the building which was formerly a Methodist Chapel, and once home to the famous London Drama Centre, the aim of the club was to create an informal and flexible social-space that would foster new encounters between groups, and act as a catalyst for the creation of events designed and programmed in collaboration with people living or working in the Camden area. Club Ponderosa was also home to MASS, a sound system fabricated from donated parts and online speaker designs, which was pivotal to the functioning of the club. Reworked for Workplace Gallery as part of Stokes' solo exhibition as a more sculptural experience Club Ponderosa and MASS will be activated by live performances by local bands and performers during the exhibition as well as incorporating footage and ephemera from previous events.

Matt Stokes - Preview: Friday 24th June, 6-8pm plus Club Ponderosa 8pm - 11pm

Image: Jubilee Dancer, 2010, 16mm film with audio, Duration: 01:30 minute loop, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK. Matt Stokes Preview: Friday 24th June 2011 , 6 - 8pm plus Club Ponderosa at Workplace Gallery 8pm - 11pm featuring Bong, Skull Kontrol, Totem Recall and live DJ’s admission free Exhibition continues: 25th June - 30th  July 2011 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment) Workplace Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition by Matt Stokes. Matt Stokes' recent practice focuses on the investigation of music subcultures. Working with musicians, writers, actors, composers and local community figures, Stokes looks to the social position and power that marginal groups have to influence a broader demographic. Often drawing attention to the spontaneous creativity that exists within counter-cultures and the potent visual practice that runs alongside them. Stokes explores the way in which these communities exchange ideas through music and their unique visual aesthetics. Operating independently from mainstream marketing, these communities challenge conventional and hierarchical methods of disseminating information. Collaboration and a sense of shared authorship are at the core of these movements and consequently mirrored in Stokes' projects. For Jubilee Dancer Stokes revisited footage he shot on a night-vision camera at an unofficial rave staged on farmland in South Cumbria, UK in June 2002. The footage was taken in the lead up to, and during a rave organised by a farmer as an alternative to the Queens Golden Jubilee celebrations, and shows an extract of a single dancer performing to camera. The raw clip begins by settling on the dancers feet, which crisscross and glide lightly across a dirt floor, before slowly panning upwards. Stripped of its original sound and the driving bass-line, the dancers movements become ambiguous. In particular, the rhythmic trainer-clad feet hint strongly at more traditional forms of dance music and communal celebration that were once commonplace to the area and its rural communities. The transference of the work from a digital format to 16mm film along with its replacement soundtrack, a traditional folk 'reel', underscores this sense of the past and has the effect of dislocating the original footage from the time period in which it was filmed - harking to a bygone age - something that is now mirrored by those who took part in early rave culture. Occupying the largest of Workplace's gallery spaces is Club Ponderosa a hybrid space designed by Stokes to operate as part meeting house, nightclub, theatre, village hall and social club. Stokes first established Club Ponderosa during a residency at the Zabludowicz Collection’s London project space 176. Drawing from the history of the building which was formerly a Methodist Chapel, and once home to the famous London Drama Centre, the aim of the club was to create an informal and flexible social-space that would foster new encounters between groups, and act as a catalyst for the creation of events designed and programmed in collaboration with people living or working in the Camden area. Club Ponderosa was also home to MASS, a sound system fabricated from donated parts and online speaker designs, which was pivotal to the functioning of the club. Reworked for Workplace Gallery as a more sculptural experience Club Ponderosa and MASS will be activated by live performances by local bands and performers during the exhibition as well as incorporating footage and ephemera from previous events. Dance Swine Dance depicts an anonymous cartoon character modeled on an amalgam of styles associated with distinctive modern music and dance cultures, dating from the early 1900s to the present day. The animated black and white 16mm film character energetically goes through a cycle of movements that epitomize the represented dance genres, subtly highlighting threads between each. Despite their apparent shifts in tempo and intensity, the tireless figure remains immersed in a perpetual state of concentration and enjoyment. In 2007, Arthouse in Austin Texas invited Stokes to create a new film project. these are the days is the result of Stokes' close work with communities connected to Austin's music scene and his extensive research into anti-establishment musical genres, particularly punk. Investigating the dichotomies expressed within earlier and later punk communities, his research ultimately led to the creation of the dual channel film installation. The first film features footage from a specially organized punk show staged by Stokes at the Broken Neck, an alternative venue in Austin and filmed by renowned cinematographers Lee Daniel and P.J. Raval. The second film, created in response to a recording session at Austin's Sweatbox Studios, depicts a makeshift band's musical reaction to the event footage. A reversal of roles between audience and performers, the work examines the concepts of inspiration and response; Punk as it was then and as it is now, different yet the same. Presented in the domestically scaled attic spaces of Workplace Gallery's former Post Office building alongside previously unseen material from Stokes' own personal archive gathered during the production process, the work provides both an immersive and intimate counterpoint to the rest of the exhibition. Past projects by Matt Stokes include: The Gainsborough Packet a period film and folk song exploring the link between Camden, London and Newcastle through research into a letter found in the Tyne and Wear Museum Archives; Real Arcadia an ongoing archive of objects and ephemera examining the underground acid house and rave culture that embedded itself in caves and quarries in the Cumbrian hills during the late eighties and early nineties; and Long After Tonight a 16mm film of a historical re-enactment of a Northern Soul 'all-nighter' in a church in Dundee - which won Stokes the prestigious Beck's Futures Art Prize in 2006. Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; and CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain. Matt Stokes was born in 1973 in Penzance, Cornwall, UK. He lives and works in Gateshead. Workplace Gallery was founded in 2005 by artists Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow. Based in Gateshead UK, Workplace Gallery represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and international art fairs. Workplace Gallery currently resides in The Old Post Office, Gateshead; a listed 19th Century red brick building built upon the site where the important British artist, engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) lived and died. Kindly supported by