2016 marks the third year of Brown's London Art Weekend (BLAW), when over seventy Mayfair and St. James's galleries and auction houses open their doors to the public for talks, walks, and exhibitions, with extended hours. From Friday to Sunday the gallery will be open to the public with Marcus Coates’ show You Might As Well Ask A Crow.
Gallery Hours during BLAW Friday, 10 AM - 8 PM
Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM Sunday, 12 AM - 5 PM 61 Conduit Street
Mayfair
London, W1S 2GB
Workplace Gallery Tour & Drinks with Marcus Coates Friday, July 1, 7 PM Join Marcus Coates for drinks and a guided tour of the exhibition You Might As Well Ask A Crow as a special event for the Brown’s London Art Weekend. RSVP: rsvp@workplacegallery.co.uk
Brown’s London Art Weekend 1 - 3 July 2016 For 150 years Mayfair’s galleries and auction houses have welcomed the world’s greatest art collectors, and Brown’s London Art Weekend is the ultimate celebration of this London heartland, rich with art galleries and an experience unlike any other in the world.
Marcus Coates was born in 1968 in London, UK. In 2008 he was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2009 he won the Daiwa Art Prize. Solo exhibitions include: The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London; Implicit Sound, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery and Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland. Group exhibitions include: Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; Station to Station, Barbican Art Centre, London; THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale, Australia; ALTERMODERN, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London; MANIFESTA 7,Trento, Italy; Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London; Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden and Venice Biennale. Marcus Coates lives and works in London.
A major new monograph, Marcus Coates, commissioned by Kunsthalle Zurich and Milton Keynes Gallery and published by Koenig will be available in June 2016.
Workplace Gallery is a contemporary art gallery run by artists.
Based in Gateshead UK, Workplace Gallery represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and international art fairs.