Like the green fig tree: Soft opening 3 January 2017 11am - 5pm MILK x WORKPLACE

Like the green fig tree Matt Antoniak Hazel Brill James Hindle Harry Hurlock Joanne Masding Joe Shaw 3 January  – 12 January 2017 Soft opening: 3 January  11am - 5pm Closing party: 12 January  6pm - 9pm   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   “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” Sylvia Plath, excerpt from The Bell Jar   Like the green fig tree is the third and final exhibition curated by M I L K, an artist collective based in Newcastle, as part of their takeover of WORKPLACE GATESHEAD. Drawing influence from the Plath quote, this exhibition examines how, in a world where information is so readily available, we find ourselves in the midst of a precarious, confusing and uneasy global situation.   The selection of artists involved make works that reference the failings of society and the culture of illusion, confusion and desensitisation that pervade it. In Like the green fig tree the breakdown of image, technology and political systems all come under particular scrutiny. The framework in position whose job it has been to explain and clarify has failed us, and left us where we are now, unsure of the future and of our place in history - resonating the uneasy feeling that we might, in fact, be at the end of it altogether.   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.   With special thanks to Roxanna Watson.   https://www.facebook.com/events/363447627365099/ http://www.mmmilk.co.uk/   For more information or images please contact: mmmilkcollective@gmail.com     Artists Biographies:   Matt Antoniak (b.1991, Nottingham) Recent exhibitions and projects include: From the Rocks Above the Pass, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough; Party, 36 Lime St, Newcastle; Trojan Horse, Laing Gallery Takeover, Laing Gallery, Newcastle; Jambon – Our Biggest Ever January Sale, NewBridge Project, Newcastle.  Matt recently completed a residency at Dumfries House, Scotland with the Royal Drawing School.   Hazel Brill (b.1991, London) Recent exhibitions and projects include: Welcome, Chalton Gallery, London; Druids in The Deadhouse, Museums at Night with Bedwyr Williams, Somerset House; Colgate and Honda Penetration, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol; In Bardo Act Two, Figure2, Baltic 39, Newcastle.  In 2016 Hazel received the Connect! 2016! Mentor Award working with Bedwyr Williams, and the Sackler Hall commission at the Museum of London.  Hazel is currently studying her MFA at Slade School of Art, London.    James Hindle (b.1992, Colchester) Recent exhibitions include: From the Rocks Above the Pass, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough; Party, 36 Lime St, Newcastle; The Transition, Haus Paula Becker, Bremen, Germany; Trojan Horse, Laing Gallery, XMAS DINNER, 136 Shields Road, Newcastle; Quit While You’re Ahead, 136 Shields Road, Newcastle.   Harry Hurlock (b.1992, Kent) Recent exhibitions include: Sorry About Last Night, The Washington Pub w/ It's All Tropical, Art Collective, Nottingham (solo); Faux Show, Assembly House, Leeds; The Sleeping Giant, Amersham Arms, London; No Grey Areas, HA HA Gallery, Southampton.   Joanne Masding (b.1985, Birmingham) Recent exhibitions include: Image Music Text, IMT Gallery, London; AFTER, Division of Labour, London; stuff wanders off, a shape steps in, Two Queens, Leicester (solo); The Place of the Scene, Bloc Projects, Sheffield; Birmingham Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Joanne is currently artist in residence with Research and Cultural Collections at University of Birmingham.   Joe Shaw (b.1990, Mansfield) Recent exhibitions include: Hidden Civil War, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle; From the Rocks Above the Pass, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough; 5Jobs+, METAL, Liverpool; Transition, Haus Paula Becker, Bremen, Germany; N.E.A.M.B.E.S.C, Protohome, Newcastle (solo); Do We Need To Grow Up, The NewBridge Project    WORKPLACE GATESHEAD is kindly supported by Arts Council England

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Season's Greetings from all at WORKPLACE

The Sun Shines In Mexico, 2013, Lacquer on printed paper, 51 x 38.5 cm from Unfaithful to daydreams, Hugo Canoilas, 2016, WORKPLACE LONDON SEASON'S GREETINGS!   WORKPLACE wishes you Happy Holidays and we hope you have a very Happy New Year! We will be closed from 22nd December through to 4th January 2017.   Seasonal opening times:   WORKPLACE LONDON   POTHOLES Eric Bainbridge   reopens 5th Jan, until 14 Jan 2017 Thurs & Fri, 10 - 6pm   First shown at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Potholes curated by George Vasey is an exhibition of drawings by British sculptor Eric Bainbridge consisting of a selection of works on paper from 1980 to the present day Including works not seen since the early '80s. ...(read more) WORKPLACE GATESHEAD   M I L K x WORKPLACE     reopens 4th Jan, until 14th Jan 2017 Tues - Sat, 11 - 5pm   M I L K artists collective have taken over WORKPLACE Gateshead for a 2 month period for our first organisation in residence during which they have programmed 3 group exhibitions and a series of accompanying talks and events featuring both M I L K members and invited artists from the North East region and further afield...(read more)         61 Conduit Street Mayfair, London W1S 2GB, UK   tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985 Thursday & Friday, 10 am - 6pm    The Old Post Office 19 - 21 West Street Gateshead, NE8 1AD   tel: +44 (0)191 4772200 Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

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Worried Mother: Preview Friday 9 December 6 – 8 pm MILK x WORKPLACE

Worried Mother Paola Ciarska Juliet Fleming Liv Fontaine Jake Kent Andrew Maughan Alfie Strong 10 December  – 21 December 2016 Opening: 9 December 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   Worried Mother is the second of 3 exhibitions curated by M I L K, an artists collective based in Newcastle as part of their takeover of WORKPLACE GATESHEAD. Worried Mother responds to society’s concerns and reservation around people deciding to pursue a career in the arts.   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/1805775353039226/ http://www.mmmilk.co.uk/   For more information or images please contact: mmmilkcollective@gmail.com   Artists Biographies:   Paola Ciarska (b. 1993, nr Gdansk, Poland) Recent exhibitions include: Kingsgate Project Space, London; Exchange Rates, w/ Gallery North, Brooklyn, New York; Curious? Festival, Abject Gallery, Newcastle; Newcastle University Degree Show, Newcastle and Copeland Gallery, London.   Juliet Fleming (b. 1991, London) Recent exhibitions include: Hiatus, Holy Biscuit, Newcastle; From the Rocks Above the Pass, House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough; Closed Mouth Open Mind, w/ Stuart Tait, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle; Quit While You’re Ahead, 136 Shields Road, Newcastle; Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham; GRAD-(ient), Whistle Art Stop, Haltwhistle.   Liv Fontaine (b. 1989, Southhampton) Recent exhibitions include: I'm Feeling So Virtual I'm Violent, HA HA Gallery, Southampton; Put Your Money Where My Mouth Is, The Royal Standard, Liverpool; Sorry About Last Night, part of ArtSheffield, curated by It's All Tropical, Sheffield; MONO6, The Courtyard Theatre, London; Claire Barrow's The Retro-spective, ICA, London.    Jake Kent (b. 1990, Leek, Staffordshire) Recent exhibitions include: Mould Map 6 – Terraformers, curated by Landfill Editions, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; Body Holes, New Scenario, Berlin Biennale; Everything’s A Ruin Waiting to Happen, Cactus Gallery, Liverpool (solo); Join in Building a Tower, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; The Fool, Two Queens, Leicester. Jake graduated from the School of the Damned in 2016 and runs Aspirational Living, a nomadic collaborative curatorial project. He was co-founder of Triple O.G. Shop and Gallery (2013 - 2015) and Losers Gym (2016 - ongoing).   Andrew Maughan  (b. 1987, Newcastle upon Tyne) Recent exhibitions include: Dangerous Cliffs, Crownpoint Studios, Glasgow; Nice Waves, JAMBON, NewBridge Project, Newcastle; McAllister's, JAMBON, It's Friday, Glasgow International Festival.   Alfie Strong (b. 1989, Shrewsbury) Recent exhibitions include: Green Fuzz, Xero Kline Coma, London; Exchange Rates, w/ 12o Collective, Brooklyn, New York; Heart Shaped Like A Baseball Bat, Periclo, Oriel Wrexham, Wrexham (solo); Rabble MC, Hutt Collective, Nottingham; People You May Know, Bosse and Baum, London; Business as Usual, Turf Projects, London; Je m’appelle Mother Fucker, à côté du 69, Nantes, France.   WORKPLACE GATESHEAD is supported by Arts Council England

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