Simeon Barclay in conversation with Adam Carr
TONIGHT: Thursday 7 November 6.30pm
Workplace Foundation
The Old Post Office
19-21 West Street
Gateshead
NE8 1AD
Artist Simeon Barclay will discuss his practice and his current exhibition at Workplace Foundation with curator and writer Adam Carr. Simeon’s first institutional solo exhibition in the North East of England, at Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, presents a new body of work informed by research into dance. From the visual spectacle of contemporary dance theatre to the communal experience of the night club dance floor, the exhibition Bus2move combines costume, film and video, photography, lighting and sound. Barclay's interest in dance and its many facets centres on the construction of masculinity, with particular focus on the way popular perceptions and stereotypes become defined, contested and encoded upon the male body.
Barclay undertook a research residency at the internationally renowned Phoenix Dance Theatre based in Leeds to inform the creation of new artwork for the exhibition. Focusing on choreography; sound design; costume; lighting and stage design, this research informed a series of new installations which continue Barclay's ongoing interest with the complexity of subjectivity and how these states of consciousness are refracted through race, class and received notions of identity.
About Simeon BarclaySimeon Barclay (b.1975, Huddersfield) draws upon a multidisciplinary practice to consider how memory, images and objects coalesce to form an index for contemplating subjectivity, aspiration, class, desire and perception within contemporary culture.
Barclay received his BA from Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds and MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. His work has been exhibited at Holden Gallery, Manchester; The Tetley, Leeds; Tate Britain, London; Cubitt, London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; G39, Cardiff; Jerwood Space, London; South London Gallery, London; Copperfield Gallery, London; Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna; We Are Where We Are, Baltic 39, Gateshead; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Arcadia Missa, New York; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool. He lives and works in Leeds, UK
About Adam Carr Adam Carr currently holds a number of guest curatorial positions worldwide. He is preparing 'POST-IT: COLOMBIA', an exhibition opening in Bogota, Colombia in September 2019 coinciding with ArtBo; a solo exhibition of the work of Ryan Gander opening 2020 in Porto and an exhibition for Collecteurs, New York. Together with Jens Hoffmann and Adriana Martinez he has founded Espacio Mango, a new gallery space and exhibition programme in Bogota, Colombia which opened September 2019. In addition, in a newly formed position as Artistic Director he is developing an exhibition programme for ERL at Liverpool John Moores University, scheduled to open in July 2020.
Since 2017 he has been an advisor for Art Brussels where he sits on the International Advisory Board. In addition, he is a contributing editor to Mousse Magazine and CURA., and has recently been appointed contributing editor of Collecteurs, New York for whom he will also serve as an advisor for curatorial and editorial content. He is also on the editorial board of The Exhibitionist, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maria Lind, Massimiliano Gioni, Jessica Morgan and Fernanda Brenner. From 2012 to 2017 he was Head of Exhibitions / Curator at MOSTYN I Wales (UK), Wales' largest contemporary visual arts centre. From 2006 to 2007 he was Adjunct Curator at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris. Adam has curated over 60 exhibitions worldwide to date and as writer, he has had over 200 texts published on art and curatorial practice, contributing to a large number of catalogues and monographs which have been published by ICA London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore; Renne Collection, Vancouver; Liverpool Biennial; and Gamec, Bergamo among others
Further information on Simeon’s show at Workplace Foundation can be found
here The exhibition Bus2Move is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and is a partnership between The Tetley, Leeds and Turnpike, Leigh 
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