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TONIGHT: Eric Bainbridge 'Potholes' WORKPLACE LONDON - 6-8pm

Eric Bainbridge, Untitled, 2015, Pen on lined paper, 21 x 29.7 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK ERIC BAINBRIDGE Potholes  24 November 2016 - 14 January 2017 WORKPLACE LONDON Preview 23 November 2016 6 - 8pm    WORKPLACE is delighted to announce Potholes, an exhibition of drawings by British sculptor Eric Bainbridge consisting of a selection of works on paper from 1981 to the present day.    Initially recognized in the 1980s for his object-based works covered in synthetic fur, Eric Bainbridge (b.1955) has since evolved an extensive and varied sculptural practice. Constructed from inexpensive materials, and commonplace items, his often ‘playful’ pieces continuously re-contextualize Modernist principles and ‘the found object’. Carefully staged, Bainbridge's assemblages investigate the domestic and the everyday whilst reflexively engaging with traditional sculptural concerns.   The exhibition at the Mayfair gallery, curated by George Vasey, presents preliminary sketches for potential sculptures, revealing Bainbridge's studio processes. The drawings, on gridded and lined paper as well as office stationary, illuminate many aspects of his sculptural work. Seen collectively, the drawings provide an insight into an artist tentatively working through his ideas.    Evidenced throughout Bainbridge’s drawings are attempts to both engage and unsettle the sometimes macho and puritanical aspects of Modernist sculpture. By embracing the irregular, the absurd, and the cute as aesthetic strategies, the artist reinvigorates historical sculptural tropes with a wry humour. In characters such as ‘Jimmy the Nail’, a motif that Bainbridge has worked with since 1984, the artist conflates the formal tautology of his materials (the profile of a large nail) with a vernacular reference (the title invokes the famous Geordie singer and actor Jimmy Nail). The character pops up recursively in Bainbridge’s drawings, and has become an emblem throughout his practice. ‘Jimmy the Nail’, like much of Bainbridge’s work, moves between abstraction and anecdote, experimenting with the formal qualities of sculpture while simultaneously creating a biographical tone.   Press information: For more information or images please contact: anna@workplacegallery.co.uk   Visitor Information: Workplace London 61 Conduit Street Mayfair, London, W1S 2GB tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985 (open Thursday - Friday 10 am - 5pm, and by appointment)   Notes for editors: Potholes was first exhibited at The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) 30 January - 2 April 2016   Eric Bainbridge was born in Consett, County Durham, UK in 1955. He studied at Newcastle Polytechnic and completed a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1981. Bainbridge has exhibited internationally since the early 80s, and his work has been included in many significant exhibitions across Europe, America and Asia. Previous exhibitions include the 1986 and 1990 Venice Biennale; Material Culture at the Hayward Gallery, London; British Art of the 80's and 90's at IMMA in Dublin; Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London. Solo exhibitions include View Points The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Eric Bainbridge ICA, Boston; Style, Space, Elegance, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Supercollage, New Art Gallery Walsall; Forward Thinking, MIMA, Middlesbrough; and Eric Bainbridge - Steel Sculptures at Camden Art Centre. His work is in numerous international collections including the Stedelijk Collection, Arts Council England Collection, The Margulies Collection, and the Tate Collection. Bainbridge lives and works in Hartlepool and Sunderland, UK.   George Vasey is the curator at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and writer. Recent independently curated projects include ‘Blend the Acclaim of Your Chant with the Timbrels’ Jerwood Space, London, ‘Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do’ KARST, Plymouth (co-curated with Ned McConnell) and ‘Jo Spence & Alexis Hunter’, Richard Saltoun, London. He is currently curating the exhibition ‘These Rotten Words’, due to open at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in early 2017. His writing has been published in Art Monthly, Kaleidoscope, Frieze, Art Review, Burlington and Apollo.

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Eric Bainbridge: Potholes WORKPLACE LONDON | Preview 23rd November 6pm - 8pm

Eric Bainbridge, Untitled, 2015, Pen on lined paper, 21 x 29.7 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK ERIC BAINBRIDGE Potholes  24 November 2016 - 14 January 2017 WORKPLACE LONDON Preview 23 November 2016 6 - 8pm    WORKPLACE is delighted to announce Potholes, an exhibition of drawings by British sculptor Eric Bainbridge consisting of a selection of works on paper from 1981 to the present day.    Initially recognized in the 1980s for his object-based works covered in synthetic fur, Eric Bainbridge (b.1955) has since evolved an extensive and varied sculptural practice. Constructed from inexpensive materials, and commonplace items, his often ‘playful’ pieces continuously re-contextualize Modernist principles and ‘the found object’. Carefully staged, Bainbridge's assemblages investigate the domestic and the everyday whilst reflexively engaging with traditional sculptural concerns.   The exhibition at the Mayfair gallery, curated by George Vasey, presents preliminary sketches for potential sculptures, revealing Bainbridges’s studio processes. The drawings, on gridded and lined paper as well as office stationary, illuminate many aspects of his sculptural work. Seen collectively, the drawings provide an insight into an artist tentatively working through his ideas.    Evidenced throughout Bainbridge’s drawings are attempts to both engage and unsettle the sometimes macho and puritanical aspects of Modernist sculpture. By embracing the irregular, the absurd, and the cute as aesthetic strategies, the artist reinvigorates historical sculptural tropes with a wry humour. In characters such as ‘Jimmy the Nail’, a motif that Bainbridge has worked with since 1984, the artist conflates the formal tautology of his materials (the profile of a large nail) with a vernacular reference (the title invokes the famous Geordie singer and actor Jimmy Nail). The character pops up recursively in Bainbridge’s drawings, and has become an emblem throughout his practice. ‘Jimmy the Nail’, like much of Bainbridge’s work, moves between abstraction and anecdote, experimenting with the formal qualities of sculpture while simultaneously creating a biographical tone.   Press information: For more information or images please contact: anna@workplacegallery.co.uk   Visitor Information: Workplace London 61 Conduit Street Mayfair, London, W1S 2GB tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985 (open Thursday - Friday 10 am - 5pm, and by appointment)   Notes for editors: Potholes was first exhibited at The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) 30 January - 2 April 2016   Eric Bainbridge was born in Consett, County Durham, UK in 1955. He studied at Newcastle Polytechnic and completed a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1981. Bainbridge has exhibited internationally since the early 80s, and his work has been included in many significant exhibitions across Europe, America and Asia. Previous exhibitions include the 1986 and 1990 Venice Biennale; Material Culture at the Hayward Gallery, London; British Art of the 80's and 90's at IMMA in Dublin; Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London. Solo exhibitions include View Points The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Eric Bainbridge ICA, Boston; Style, Space, Elegance, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Supercollage, New Art Gallery Walsall; Forward Thinking, MIMA, Middlesbrough; and Eric Bainbridge - Steel Sculptures at Camden Art Centre. His work is in numerous international collections including the Stedelijk Collection, Arts Council England Collection, The Margulies Collection, and the Tate Collection. Bainbridge lives and works in Hartlepool and Sunderland, UK.   George Vasey is the curator at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and writer. Recent independently curated projects include ‘Blend the Acclaim of Your Chant with the Timbrels’ Jerwood Space, London, ‘Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do’ KARST, Plymouth (co-curated with Ned McConnell) and ‘Jo Spence & Alexis Hunter’, Richard Saltoun, London. He is currently curating the exhibition ‘These Rotten Words’, due to open at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in early 2017. His writing has been published in Art Monthly, Kaleidoscope, Frieze, Art Review, Burlington and Apollo.

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This Is It, Isn’t It? Preview Friday 18 November 6 – 8 pm MILK x WORKPLACE

This Is It, Isn’t It? Philip Coyne Grace Denton Joe Fletcher Orr Luca George Max Lee Luke Mullen Mathew Parkin The White Pube   19 November 2016 – 3 December 2016 Opening: 18 November 6pm – 8pm   M I L K  x  WORKPLACE The Old Post Office 19-21 West Street Gateshead, NE8 1AD Gallery opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm www.workplacegallery.co.uk     This Is It, Isn't It? is the first of 3 exhibitions curated by M I L K, an artists collective based in Newcastle as part of their takeover of WORKPLACE GATESHEAD, This Is It, Isn’t It? explores ideas of self-doubt, self-awareness and self-reflexivity as a core of artistic practice.   M I L K are an artist-led collective based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Formed in 2015, M I L K aim to provide a platform for emerging artists to exhibit. As practicing artists themselves, M I L K members perceived a lack of opportunities and recognised exhibition spaces in Newcastle for early career and emerging artists. M I L K seeks to address this discord with a varied programme of exhibitions and events focused on supporting early career artists both regionally and nationally.   https://www.facebook.com/events/1366369863373182/ http://www.mmmilk.co.uk/   For more information or images please contact: mmmilkcollective@gmail.com   Artists Biographies:   Philip Coyne b. 1989   Recent exhibitions include: Business as Usual, Turf Projects, London; You think the only people who are people, are the people who you look like.  But if you walk in the footsteps of a stranger, you learn things you never knew you never knew, Two Queens, Leicester; Free Things, Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Leeds; A Place to Loiter In, Assembly House, Leeds (solo). Philip is currently studying on the Fine Arts post-graduate course at The Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.   Grace Denton b. 1988, Dewsbury   Recent exhibitions and projects include: Both Things Are True, NewBridge Books, Newcastle; Living Room, Baltic39, Newcastle; You Know the Rules, Baltic39, Newcastle; Going Going Gone, Leeds College of Art, Leeds.  Upcoming exhibitions: Grace has been invited to respond to the current Pester & Rossi exhibition at Baltic39. She is also currently studying on the BxNU MFA programme at Northumbria University in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.   Joe Fletcher Orr b. 1991, Birkenhead.   Recent exhibitions include: A F T E R, Division of Labour, London; Neon: The Charged Line, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool; Künstlich, natürlich!, SABOT, Cluj-Napoca;  This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Mummy’s Boy, The International 3, Manchester (solo); Supermarket Sweep: Bonus Round!, PERICLO, Oriel Wrexham; Follow, FACT, Liverpool; I’MTen, IMT Gallery, London; Tuff Crowd, PICNIC PICNIC, Sheffield; SMALL ROME (curated by Adam Carr), Frutta, Rome.  Joe is also the director of CACTUS, Liverpool, and recently co-curated the Associate Artists programme at Liverpool Biennial.   Luca George b. 1990, Brighton   Recent exhibitions and projects include: Memories are Made of This, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow (solo); The World of the Weakest Link, The Glue Factory, Glasgow; Gold Panning, Market Gallery, Glasgow; Dante's Diabolo, Jupiter Woods, London; Artist Talk, Turf Projects, London; The Beginning of Everything, Palazzo Fontana, Venice; I Am the Wheel, CCA, Glasgow.   Max Lee b. 1993, Ascot   Recent exhibitions include: From the Rocks Above the Pass, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough; Trojan Horse, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; The Transition, Haus Paula Becker, Bremen; Afterparty, 36 Lime St, Newcastle; Party, 36 Lime St, Newcastle; JAMBON – Our Biggest Ever January Sale, NewBridge Project, Newcastle; White Nights, 36 Lime St, Newcastle (solo); XMAS DINNER, 136 Shields Road, Newcastle   Luke Mullen b. 1985, Manchester   Recent exhibitions and projects include: Shape Up or Ship Out, Breeze Creatives, Newcastle; Haphazard, Z-Arts, Manchester; Performance Salon, Abject Gallery, Newcastle;Pi Day, NewBridge Project, Newcastle.  Luke also runs Left Leg Gallery and collective.     Mathew Parkin b. 1987, Wakefield   Recent exhibitions and projects include: Slope-Tend-Big, Grand Union, Birmingham; Like A Floral Knife, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; I Believe in You, IMT Gallery, London (solo); Film Open touring Spike Island, Bristol, Eastside Projects, Brimingham, Transmission, Glasgow, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, S1 Artspace, Sheffield and the ICA, London; Group Occupation Residency, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall.  Mathew was recently a participant of The Syllabus programme at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2015/16.   The White Pube Gabrielle de la Puente b. 1994, Liverpool Zarina Muhammad b. 1994, London   Recent exhibitions include: The Leaf of Pablo, Hutt Collective, Nottingham (solo); Fresh ‘n’ Frozen, 12o Collective, ArtLicks Weekend, London; Zayn Malik Zindabad, Lewisham Art House, London; Live Laugh Love, MUESLI Projects, Liverpool (solo); Crit-a-Oke w/ Tzuzjj, The Bluecoat, Liverpool.  The White Pube is also an art criticism website and research project, and they are the current Desk Residents at Res, London.     WORKPLACE GATESHEAD is supported by Arts Council England

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