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NEWSLETTER CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:     110% Mick Peter 28 January - 25 March  WORKPLACE GATESHEAD (Tuesday - Saturdays, 11 - 5pm) Click here to view Mick Peter: 110%, 2017, Workplace Gateshead Dead Sea Deaf Sea Matt Stokes 17 February - 31 March WORKPLACE LONDON (Thursdays - Saturdays, 10am - 6pm) NOW OPEN SATURDAYS Click here to view Matt Stokes: Dead Sea Deaf Sea, Workplace London, 2017 ARTISTS NEWS:   Darren Banks Film Days IKG Gallery, Calgary, Canada (group exhibition) 28 February - 2 March 2017 Darren Banks, Object Cinema, 2015, Single Channel HD Video 16:9, 5:26 minutes looped     Eric Bainbridge Aftermieter Haus Mödrath, Germany (group exhibition) 23 April 2017 - 15 November 2018 Eric Bainbridge, Dark Style Swan, 1985, Ocelot fur fabric, wire and plaster, 270 x 163 x 272 cm   Catherine Bertola / Cath Campbell / Jo Coupe / Jennifer Douglas In and Out of Sight UH Gallery, Hertfordshire 18 March 2017 - 6 May 2017 Catherine Bertola, Sad Bones (Unknown Interior #1), 2013, fire damaged book page, 15 x 20.5 cm   Marcus Coates: As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics Irish Museum of Modern Art (group exhibition) 13 April - 27 August 2017 Installation view: Marcus Coates 'Psychopomp' 2010, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK   Hugo Canoilas Debaixo do Vulcão Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea Lisbon, Portugal (solo exhibition) 25 November 2016 - 26 March 2017 Installation view: Hugo Canoilas Debaixo do Vulcão, MNAC, Lisbon   Hugo Canoilas Constructing Paradise Austrian Cultural Forum, New York 11 East 52nd Street, New York, USA (group exhibition) February 1 - April 24, 2017 Hugo Canoilas Love the sunset and dawn, because there's nothing more useless that that, 2015, Ink on raw canvas, 300 x 600 cm     Jacob Dahlgren Spatial Miracles: Installations, Spatial Constructions, Light Sculptures 30 October 2016 – 1 May 2017 Museum Ritter (group exhibition) Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch Jacob Dahlgren, The Wonderful World of Abstraction, Material: Silkribbon and steel   Laura Lancaster Priestman Gallery, Sunderland 23 January - 28 February 2017 (solo exhibition) click here for images Laura Lancaster, Untitled, 2013, Oil on canvas, 160 x 210 cm. 63 x 82 5/8 in   Richard Rigg Reflections in Art and Medicine Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (group exhibition) 11. February – 30. April 2017 Richard Rigg, Weighing Scales, 2005, Weighing Scales, 42 x 35 x 68 cm   Cecilia Stenbom Somewhere Becoming the Sea Humber Street Gallery, Hull (group exhibition) 5 April - 17 June 2017 Cecilia Stenbom, Parallel, 2017, Single Channel HD Film, Duration 13 min 42 Sec, Commissioned by Active Northumberland with support from Arts Council England     For more information on works, contact: sales@workplacegallery.co.uk

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Matt Stokes: 'Dead Sea Deaf Sea' WORKPLACE London. Preview Thurs 16th Feb 6-8pm

Matt Stokes   Dead Sea Deaf Sea     17th February – 31st March   Preview: 16 February 2017, 6-8 pm   WORKPLACE LONDON 61 Conduit Street, Mayfair London, W1S 2GB Thursdays and Fridays, 10 – 6pm   WORKPLACE is pleased to announce Dead Sea Deaf Sea, the first solo exhibition of Matt Stokes at Workplace London.   Dead Sea Deaf Sea is an exhibition of new film, sculpture and photography by Stokes predominantly derived from his research into HMS Standard, an experimental World War II psychiatric rehabilitation camp, established by the Royal Navy to find an answer to rising mental illness and insubordination in its ranks.  The camp had a duplicitous role - to treat those traumatised by life in active service and to weed out ‘malingerers’ feigning psychosis to escape service. The work shown follows on from Stone Frigate, a LARP (Live Action Role Play) conceived and written by Stokes (commissioned by Keilder Art & Architecture) that took place near the original, now flooded, site of HMS Standard in the Tyne Valley, Northumberland.   At Workplace London we will show 2 large-scale sculptures of weaving frames that were used within therapeutic activity. Woven by Stokes with ragged World War II Royal Navy uniforms to ambiguously spell out DEAD SEA and DEAF SEA, these pieces allude to the powerful passive presence of the sea as a site of conflict, a source of dread, and as psychological metaphor.  A new series of 14 black and white photographs have been doctored and hand printed by Stokes using water from Keilder reservoir (under which the location of HMS Standard is now submerged).  A sailor sat smoking on a hillside is shown next to a landscape; repeated 3 times, the diptychs are each hand tinted to represent different psychological conditions - referring directly to Siegfried E. Katz’ article ‘Color Preference in the Insane’ published in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1931 – which influenced elements of the LARP design. Alongside this, a short document of Stone Frigate is set against a haunting rendition of ‘Depth of My Ego’ by the Scottish folk singer Matt McGinn, sung by George Unthank (who played the Chaplain in the LARP) to signify the end of the event. Matt Stokes, The Oyster, 2016, Colour 16mm film and audio, 3mins 30 seconds loop, Courtesy of the artist and WORKPLACE, UK The Oyster is a 16mm looped film projection shot by Stokes on Santa Monica Beach in California. In the distance a solitary figure faces the sea listening to a clamshell CD Walkman, shifting hypnotically and manically from foot to foot. It is overdubbed by a slowed loop of folk reel and an abridged narration on the history of the American Oyster charting the initial exploitation of a natural resource, to its growth as a luxury food and the inevitable tensions between industrial overproduction and the fragilities of the social and environmental eco-system.   Throughout this exhibition Stokes employs both historical narrative and re-enactment to articulate pertinent anxieties around epic shifts in global politics and their relationship to intimate psychological states. Dead Sea Deaf Sea presents a mesmerising and sublime meditation upon the connection between the fragility of the individual and the socio-political undercurrents that shape our lives.   Matt Stokes was born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1973 and lives and works in Newcastle and Gateshead. His recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; CAAC Seville, Spain; De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands; Dilston Grove / Matts Gallery, London, UK; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; and Arthouse, Austin, Texas, USA. Stokes was the winner of the 2006 Beck’s Futures Prize.   For further information about the exhibition please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk

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Hugo Canoilas: 'Constructing Paradise' - Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

Hugo Canoilas 'Love the sunset and dawn because there's nothing more useless than that', 2015,   Courtesy Gallerie Andreas Huber, Vienna and WORKPLACE, Gateshead and London, UK CONSTRUCTING PARADISE February 1 - April 24, 2017  Austrian Cultural Forum, New York  11 East 52nd Street, New York, USA Paul GAUGUIN Oskar KOKOSCHKA Hugo CANOILAS Jean-Michel BASQUIAT Mark DION Nives WIDAUER Kara WALKER Mathias KESSLER Mickalene THOMAS Marissa LÔBO, Christian Kosmas MAYER Moussa KONE  Curated by Dieter BUCHHART Curatorial Advisor: Mathias KESSLER  JANUARY 31│EXHIBITION OPENING 6 PM -- 7 PM: Artist talk  7 PM – 9 PM: Reception featuring a performance by Marissa Lôbo Constructing Paradise exhibits contemporary reinterpretations of notions of the "exotic" by artists based in Austria or the United States. Taking iconic artworks such as Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa and Oskar Kokoschka's Tiger Cat as starting points, the show assembles a diverse range of work from early contemporary to more recent artistic responses to the modernist imprint of desire and fantasy on contemporary culture. Particularly when juxta­posed with hyperbolized images of modern-day advertising, the exhibition explores the psychological impacts of the modernist image on image culture and the Western psyche.  Hugo Canoilas was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Recent Exhibitions and projects include: When elephants march in, curated my Mark Kremer at De Appel, Amsterdam, NL;  Paradise Birds - 30th São Paulo Biennial;  Infinite Tasks, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Dear painter paint me - with heart and reason, Trafó Contemporary Art Center, Budapest, DEBAIXO DO VULCÃO, MNAC, Lisbon For further information on work by Hugo Canoilas please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk

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