'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 The intense sound and body movements of the vocalists together with the backdrop of the outdated GDR radio studio in which the piece was filmed, all contribute to the atmosphere of this unique and immersive work.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).