TONIGHT at 8PM via ZOOM - In Conversation: Rachel Lancaster and Paul Smith

Rachel Lancaster Untitled, 2019oil on canvas80 x 100cm(RL0208) In Conversation: Rachel Lancaster and Paul Smith Tuesday 30th June 2020 8pm - 9pm (UK - GMT+1) LIVE via Zoom (FREE) Please join us tonight at 8pm for another of our ongoing series of informal and entertaining conversations - LIVE This week artist Rachel Lancaster will be talking to Paul Smith, musician and singer for the British alternative rock group Maxïmo Park About Rachel Lancaster: Rachel Lancaster's practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, alongside an archive of her own photographs are selected from, edited and then translated into oil paintings. Lancaster's paintings represent detailed fragments of a greater narrative. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close ups of inanimate objects, common place domestic interiors; the split second moments that are “in-between” the action. Divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure, these paintings become abstract, ambiguous and open ended as to the unknown events which have preceded or may follow. Biography Rachel Lancaster (b.1979) lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She has exhibited widely and taken part in numerous projects, performances and artist residencies both nationally and internationally. In 2015 she was invited to be ‘Artist In Residence’ at Alewive Brook Road in New York, former residence and studio of Elaine De Kooning. In 2018 Lancaster was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize. Rachel Lancaster is a selected member of the Workplace Foundation Community of Artists. (read more...) About Paul Smith: Paul Smith is a musician best known as the singer for the British alternative rock group Maxïmo Park. He briefly worked as an art teacher and studied art history at Newcastle University after completing a Foundation course at Cleveland College of Art & Design. Maxïmo Park released their debut album on Warp Records in 2005, and Smith continues to perform and record with the band, who are currently recording their seventh album. Away from the band, he has collaborated with poet Lavinia Greenlaw, as well as composing a 26-minute a cappella piece of music for Great North Run Culture. He released his debut solo album, 'Margins' in 2010, alongside 'Thinking In Pictures', a book of Polaroid photographs. In 2014 Smith teamed up with Field Music's Peter Brewis to record an album, 'Frozen By Sight', derived from his travel writing, featuring string arrangements by Brewis. Last year he composed new music for Unfolding Theatre's 'Hold On, Let Go' production. His latest solo album 'Diagrams' (2018) features Workplace artist Rachel Lancaster on vocals and guitar! (read more...) About Workplace Foundation: Workplace Foundation is a charity founded by WORKPLACE a contemporary art gallery based in Gateshead, UK. We support emerging and under-represented artists, with a focus on the North of England. Workplace Foundation are core funded by Arts Council England as part of their National Portfolio of Organisations, and we rely on donations from individuals and trusts and foundations to enable us to do our work. There are a number of different ways you can support Workplace Foundation. Please email us at info@workplacefoundation.art to discuss. with generous support from: Workplace Foundation The Old Post Office 19-21 West Street Gateshead NE8 1AD, United Kingdom T: +44 (0)191 477 2200 info@workplacefoundation.art www.workplacefoundation.art Workplace Foundation is a Company Registered in England and Wales Company Name: Workplace Foundation Charity Registration Number: 1174379 VAT Number: GB 133 4963 12

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TONIGHT at 8pm (UK) - In Conversation: Magnus Quaife and Andrew Hunt

Magnus Quaife Untitled - Jessica Stockholder Oil on MDF (MQ0002) In Conversation: Magnus Quaife and Andrew Hunt Tuesday 16th June 2020 8pm - 9pm (UK - GMT+1) LIVE via Zoom (FREE) Please join us tonight at 8pm for another of our ongoing series of informal and entertaining conversations - every Tuesday evening at 8pm, LIVE This week artist Magnus Quaife will be talking to Andrew Hunt, Professor of Fine Art and Curating at Manchester Metropolitan University. About Magnus Quaife: Magnus Quaife’s practice has been described as that of a conceptual artist interested in paint and as being connected through an approach that is akin to an archaeology of the modern and contemporary. The defining aspect of his recent work in which these concerns have been explored is a visually playful exploration of the connection between the painted mark (the frozen gesture), and the representation or equivalent of that gesture in other media or materials. An attempt to unpick the relationship between haptic, indexical mark of the painter’s presence - the sign of the artist - and its reproduced equivalent. In doing so reconsidering the relationship between ostentatious virtuosity and anonymous execution in the painted surface. It is a practice that has most often been realised in paint and collage, but that has also led to brewing, zine making and projection. This is an unpicking and questioning of the material properties of painting and the master narratives that are still drawn upon to support it. Earlier works considered the recirculation and re-imagination of images, materials and forms in the art world and beyond, and the emergence of myths as collective cultural or political memory was often the focus. From media images of the global uprisings of 1968 to the mountains in Cezanne’s paintings and Spielberg’s films, via phone masts pretending to be trees, Walter Benjamin’s grave, or Roland Barthes hobby paintings, these diverse subjects were connected by sense that nothing is quite what it seems. Magnus Quaife has exhibited internationally and across the UK and his work is in private and public collections. Born in 1975 in Nottingham he lives and works in Greater Manchester. (read more on Magnus Quaife and view his work here...) About Andrew Hunt: Andrew Hunt is a curator and writer based in London and Manchester, and is currently Professor of Fine Art and Curating at Manchester Metropolitan University. From 2008 to 2014 he was Director of Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea, where he was responsible for developing the organisation’s acclaimed exhibitions programme and publishing activities. Since the early 2000s, he has worked on intimate solo exhibitions with significant international artists such as Mike Nelson, Elizabeth Price, Tris Vonna-Michell, Kai Althoff, and Marc Camille Chaimowicz as well as designers such as Fraser Muggeridge, Jonathan Barnbrook, James Langdon, Abacke, Manuel Raeder, and Sara De Bondt on projects that range from minor printed ephemera to major publications, exhibition design and new branding for art institutions. In 2012 he was a member of the Turner Prize jury. Recent independent projects include ‘Artists Against Homelessness: Insiders and Outliers’ for St Mungo’s (2020), 'As You Change So Do I’ a series of public art commissions for Luton, UK (2016 to 2019). He has contributed to magazines and journals such as Artforum, Art Monthly, The Burlington Magazine, Domus, frieze, Mousse Magazine, Picpus and TATE ETC., and is founding editor of the Slimvolume imprint, which to date has published editions and books by over 250 artists. (read more...) Coming up: Nicola Singh In Conversation with Julie Crawshaw Artist Nicola Singh will be In Conversation with ethnographer, writer and lecturer Julie Crawshaw. Tuesday 23rd June, 8 - 9pm REGISTER HERE Rachel Lancaster In Conversation with Paul Smith Artist Rachel Lancaster will be In Conversation with musician Paul Smith, vocalist for Maxïmo Park and solo artist. Tuesday 16th June, 8 - 9pm REGISTER HERE About Workplace Foundation: Workplace Foundation is a charity founded by WORKPLACE a contemporary art gallery based in Gateshead, UK. We support emerging and under-represented artists, with a focus on the North of England. Workplace Foundation are core funded by Arts Council England as part of their National Portfolio of Organisations, and we rely on donations from individuals and trusts and foundations to enable us to do our work. There are a number of different ways you can support Workplace Foundation. Please email us at info@workplacefoundation.art to discuss. with generous support from: Workplace Foundation The Old Post Office 19-21 West Street Gateshead NE8 1AD, United Kingdom T: +44 (0)191 477 2200 info@workplacefoundation.art www.workplacefoundation.art Workplace Foundation is a Company Registered in England and Wales Company Name: Workplace Foundation Charity Registration Number: 1174379 VAT Number: GB 133 4963 12

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