Friday, September 11, 2015

Laura Lancaster: Preview Friday 18th September at Workpace Gateshead

above: Laura Lancaster, MONTAGE X, 2015, Oil on Linen, 280 cm x 250 cm, (diptych).

below: Laura Lancaster, MONTAGE V, 2015, Oil on Linen, 280 cm x 250 cm, (diptych).

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Laura Lancaster

ELLIPSIS

 

Preview: 6pm - 9pm Friday 18th September 2015

 

Workplace Gallery

The Old Post Office

19-21 West Street
Gateshead NE8 1AD

 

Exhibition continues: 19th September - 31st October 2015

Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment)

 

Workplace is delighted to present Ellipsis, Laura Lancaster's 4th solo exhibition at our Gateshead gallery.

 

Lancaster's recent paintings are based upon her collection of found anonymous home movies. The incorporation of moving image into her work marks a significant departure for Lancaster. Her new paintings explore the cinematic and the temporal contained with the found image whilst, simultaneously, the depiction of the physical film as object opens up the painting process itself allowing for a deeper investigation into the mechanics of images, and the way in which they are created and consumed.

 

In all the works, evidence of the film as an object is visible, in the sprocket holes and marks left on the film, referring to its mechanical, functional characteristics. These elements disrupt the coherence of the images highlighting their constructed nature. These devices also force the abstract and the figurative to exist on the same picture plane and allow for this dialogue to take place more overtly within my practice." (Laura Lancaster, 2015)

 

The exhibition title Ellipsis refers toa continuity-editing device used in filmmaking. An ellipsis in narrative leaves out a portion of the story, often to condense time, or to allow the viewer to fill in the missing narrative with their imagination. Lancaster's series of large diptychs extract the first and last frame from a film and place them one above the other, literally only showing the beginning and the end. The notion of movement and time is also present in Lancaster's recent painting installations comprised of multiple images taken from a sequence of frames from a film. Threshold 2015 is made up of 24 individual paintings, with a single super-8 film frame as its source. Hung sequentially, the paintings represent one second of footage based on the cinematic frame rate of 24 frames per second. Threshold focuses upon the dichotomy of stillness and movement, the animate and the inanimate inherent within the painted film still. 

 

The repetition of the figure in this work restates its own artificial, constructed nature over and over again...  This split second of recorded time is analyzed and revisited throughout the painting process and as a result my presence is woven into the temporality of the film, as an unseen observer. (Laura Lancaster, 2015)

 

Laura Lancaster was born in Hartlepool, UK in 1979. She lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

 

Forthcoming exhibitions include: Musee d'art Moderne St Etienne, France and New Art Gallery Walsall, UK,. Selected exhibitions include: DISMALAND, Weston-super-Mare, UK, A Stranger's Dream, Sargents Daughters, New York, USA, Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection Tokyo Station Gallery, Itami City Museum of Art, the Museum of Art, Kochi and Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Laura Lancaster Wooson Gallery, Deagu, Korea, Painting past Present Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK, 40 Years of Women Artists from the Private Collection New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Ego Documents The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, Micro Narratives Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Incontri, in the Accademia d'Ungheria a Roma, Past as Present York Art Gallery, Giardino Luoghi Della Piccola Realta Palazzo Della Arte Napolii, Local Stories Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Blue Star Red Wedge Glasgow International, When I Lived in Modern Times Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK, Laura Lancaster DLI Museum, Durham, UK, New Works on Paper by Laura Lancaster MIMA, UK. 

 

Collections include: British Council, The Government Art Collection UK, UBS Bank, Simmons & Simmons, Ernst & Young, Unilever PLC, The Hort Collection, The Lodeveans Collection, The Cartin Collection USA, Girl's Club Collection, USA, The Zabludowicz Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art USA, Tyne and Wear Museums Collection UK, New Art Gallery Walsall UK, and numerous international Private Collections.

 

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Paul Merrick: 'Exeter Contemporary Open 2015' Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK

Image: Paul Merrick, Untitled (Black Fonda), 2015 Melamine, 104 x 74 x 40 cm (PME0177) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Exeter Conteporary Open 2015

Phoenix Gallery

Bradninch Place,

Gandy Street,

Exeter EX4 3LS

 

11 September - 31 October 2015

 

Preview: Thursday 10 September, 6 - 8.30pm
with presentation at 7pm

 

Exeter Phoenix is pleased to present Exeter Contemporary Open 2015, which is an annual, open submission exhibition that presents work from some of the most exciting emerging and established artists from across the UK.

 

This year, celebrating its 10th year, the selection panel consisted of artist Sean Edwards, artist, writer and curator Cedar Lewisohn, independent curator Jennie Syson and Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows.

 

The fourteen selected artists are:

 

HENNY ACLOQUE | KELLY BEST | JACK BURTON | GORDON DALTON | DICKON DRURY | JAMIE HOLMAN | DANIEL SEAN KELLY | MCGILVARY WHITE| PAUL MERRICK | TOM PITT | NINA ROYLE | RUAIDHRI RYAN | MIMEI THOMPSON | JOSEPHINE WOOD

 

http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/
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Hugo Canoilas: 'Crocodile' AUTOCENTER, Berlin, DE

Image: Hugo Canoilas, Rambo Rimbaud, 2015, Ink on unprimed canvas, 300 x 650 cm, 118 1/8 x 255 7/8 in (HC0076) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

CROCODILE

AUTOCENTER

Leipzigerstrasse 56

10117 Berlin

 

13th - 20th Setember 2015

 

Preview:

12th September 2015 19:00hrs

 

Hugo Canoilas, Borden Capalino, Franz Graf, Martin Grandits, Flora Hauser, August Kocherscheidt, Michael Lukas, Raymond Pettibon, Hanna Putz, Christian Rosa, Alexander Ruthner and Jannis Varelas

 

Curated by Jannis Varelas and Christian Rosa

 

For more information:

 

http://www.autocenter-art.de/

https://www.facebook.com/Autocenter-325838750814800/timeline/
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Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Peter J. Evans: 'Across islands, divides' Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Image: Peter J. Evans, The morning light is transformative, the evening light is transformative (detail), 2015, Lithograph on aluminium with hand colouring, 80 x 70 cm (PJE0081) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Across islands, divides

BALTIC 39

31-39 High Bridge Street

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 1EW

 

Private View: Thursday 10 September 2015, 18.00-20.00
Exhibition: 11 September - 13 December 2015

Evans is interested in the nature and ideas of finite truth in an infinitely changeable universe and works with drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and sound in an attempt to make sense of the ungraspable realities we live within.

Fascinated by systems and patterns, Evans will show a number of process based drawings, many comprising complex structures of lines built up over a period of years. Alongside these are several new works, including a two part print edition, a unique projection technique for a super8 film, didactic oak panels, computer controlled spinning pentatonic bells, and Broken Telephone, a sound work featuring Mark Fell, Laura Cannell and Rhodri Davies.

 

http://www.baltic39.com/
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Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Laura Lancaster: 'Dismaland' Marine Parade, Weston-super-Mare, UK

Image: Laura Lancaster, Untitled, 2010, Oil on found picture frame, 20 x 25 cm 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in (LL0420) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Dismaland

Bemusement Park

Marine Parade

Weston-super-Mare

BS23 1BE

 

The UK's most disappointing new visitor attraction!

www.dismaland.co.uk

 

Andreas Hykade (Bavaria)

Amir Schiby (Israel)

Ammar Abd Rabbo (Syria)

Axel Void (USA)

Banksy (UK)

Barry Reigate (UK)

Ben Long (UK)

Bill Barminski (USA)

Block9 (UK)

Brock Davis (USA)

Caitlin Cherry (USA)

Caroline McCarthy (IRL)

Damien Hirst (UK)

Darren Cullen (UK)

David Shrigley (UK)

Dorcas Casey (UK)

Dietrich Wegner (USA)

Ed Hall (UK)

El Teneen (Egypt)

Escif (Spain)

Espo (USA)

Fares Cachoux (Syria)

Foundland (Syria/South Africa)

Greg Haberny (USA)

Huda Beydoun (Saudi Arabia)

James Joyce (UK)

Jani Leinonen (Finland)

Jeff Gillette (USA)

Jenny Holzer (USA)

Jessica Harrison (UK)

Jimmy Cauty (UK)

Joanna Pollonais (Canada)

Josh Keyes (USA)

Julie Burchill (UK)

Kate MacDowell (USA)

Laura Lancaster (UK)

Lee Madgwick (UK)

Leigh Mulley (UK)

Lush (Australia)

Mana Neyestani (Iran)

Maskull Lasserre (Canada)

Michael Beitz (USA)

Mike Ross (USA)

Neta Harari Navon (Israel)

Nettie Wakefield (UK)

Paco Pomet (Spain)

Paul Insect & BAST (UK/USA)

Peter Kennard & Cat Phillips(UK)

Polly Morgan (UK)

Pure Evil (UK)

Ronit Baranga (Israel)

Sami Musa (Palestine)

Scott Hove (USA)

Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė (Lithuania)

Shadi Alzaqzouq (Palestine)

Suliman Mansour (Palestine)

Tammam Azzam (Syria)

The Astronauts' Caravan (UK)

Tinsel Edwards (UK)

Wasted Rita (Portugal)

Zaria Forman (USA)
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Rachel Lancaster, Darren Banks and Richard Rigg: 'I'M Ten' IMT Gallery, London, UK


Image: Rachel Lancaster 'Untitled', 2012, Colour photograph mounted on board (RL0191) 8 x 10 in Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

 

I'M Ten

IMT Gallery
Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ UK

4 September - 2 October 2015

0rphan Drift | AAS | Larry Achiampong | Rupert Ackroyd | Thorbjørn Andersen | Daniela Antonelli | Sol Archer | Athanasios Argianas | Cristina Ataíde | Alex Baker | Alison Ballard | Darren Banks | Beagles and Ramsay | Felix Bernstein | Antoine Bertin | David Blandy | Aline Bouvy | Uma Breakdown | Nicholas Brooks | Harry Burke | David Burrows | Martin John Callanan | Sarah Carne | Marco Cazzella | Rómulo Celdrán | Adam Chodzko | Rachael Clewlow | Maia Conran | Cecilia Corrigan | John Cussans | Charles Danby | Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau | Claire Dorsett | Luke Drozd | Graham Dunning | Karl England | Simon Faithfull | Marcia Farquhar | Brian Fay | Joe Fletcher Orr | Beth Fox | Margarita Gluzberg | Katie Goodwin | Joe Graham | Oona Grimes | Tina Gverović | Mark Harris | Joey Holder | Rowena Hughes | Helena Hunter | Atsuhide Ito | Mat Jenner | Sophie Jung | Nick Kennedy | Dean Kenning | Lotte Rose Kjær Skau | Pil and Galia Kollectiv | Kreider + O'Leary | Kamil Kuskowski | Dominique Lämmli | Rachel Lancaster | Sophia Le Fraga | Sasha Litvintseva | Daniel Locke | Kevin Logan | Lynn Lu | Marcin Łuczkowski | David Lytzhøft | Sally Madge | Martim Meirelles | Luke McCreadie | Aidan McNeill | Melanie Manchot | Harry Meadley | Lindsey Mendick | Rosa Menkman | Paulina Michnowska | Karen Mirza & Brad Butler | Matt Moser-Clark | Harriet Murray | Idit Elia Nathan | Natacha Nisic | Flore Nové-Josserand | Eva O'Leary | Aki Onda | Miguel Palma | Maria Papadomanolaki | Mathew Parkin | Flora Parrott | Berry Patten | Isabel Pavão | Laura Pawela | Will Peck | Manuela Pimentel | Patricia Pinsker | Plastique Fantastique | Maeve Rendle | Hyun-Min Ryu | Andreas Rasmussen | Richard Rigg | Sam Risley Billingham | Florian Roithmayr | Caroline Rothstein | Giorgio Sadotti | Henrik Schrat | Mark Scott-Wood | Erica Scourti | Dallas Seitz | Yinka Shonibare | Gordon Shrigley | Signal To Noise | DJ Simpson | Thomas Skov | Amalie Smith | John Smith | Rob Smith | Evangelia Spiliopoulou | Richard Squires | Marilia Stagkouraki | David Steans | Eva Stenram | Helen Stratford | NaoKo TakaHashi | Dafna Talmor | Vibeke Tandberg | Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan | Neil Taylor | Jennet Thomas | Thomson & Craighead | John Timberlake | Emma Tod | Townley and Bradby | Suzanne Treister | Lorenzo Triburgo | Alexandra Urban | Pedro Valdez Cardoso | Markus Von Platen | Tom White | Elizabeth Wright | Mark Peter Wright | Shen Xin | Eli Zafran | Judith Zaugg | O Zhang

Auction launch: Thursday 17 September from 6pm GMT
Auction Ends: Friday 2 October at 9pm
Auction closing party: Friday 2 October 6 - 9pm

I'M Ten is a benefit auction and exhibition of over 150 emerging and established artists, brought together to celebrate IMT Gallery's 10 year anniversary. All artworks will be auctioned off on Paddle8 at a starting price of £50 from the 17th of September - 2nd October 2015.

We are grateful to our I'M Ten nominators for their thoughtful artist selections. They include: Oreet Ashery (Artist), Stuart Brisley (Artist), Mark Doyle (Independent Art Consultant), Elisabetta Fabrizi (Curator, Tyneside Cinema), Kenneth Goldsmith (Poet and Founding Editor of UbuWeb), Sean Griffiths (Architect and Founder of FAT), Kelly Large (Public Programme Curator, Zabludowicz Collection), Ana Ventura Miranda (Director, Arte Institute) and Aura Satz (Artist).

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Thursday, July 09, 2015

Matt Stokes: 'Objects to See Further: In Focus' The Mining Institute, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Image: Newall Refractor at Ferndene, Gateshead, 1872. Courtesy University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy

Objects to See Further: In Focus


Tuesday 14 July, 7.00 - 9.30pm

The Mining Institute, Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE


ADMISSION FREE


An event that brings together leading writers, historians and scientists, who through a series of presentations will introduce some of the key histories and themes that are shaping the development of Objects to See Further, a new film by artist Matt Stokes, developed as part of Great North Run Culture's, 'Great North Greats' programme.

 

Speakers include:


Matt Stokes: artist, will introduce Objects to See Further by offering an overview of his research, ranging from the story of the Newall Refractor, which was originally sited in Gateshead and was once the most powerful telescope of its kind in the world - to the detailed social reportage contained in Joe Wilson's songwriting.


Henrietta Heald: author of 'William Armstrong, Magician of the North' will talk about the life and legacy of William Armstrong, with particular emphasis on the years around 1871.


Colin Cunningham: Director of UK European-Extremely Large Telescope project, will talk about the history behind the development of the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world, including the practicalities involved in the construction, which have quite literally involved moving a mountain. As well as insight into what it is hoped this instrument will enable scientists to discover.


Peter Dillon: is a writer, film director and Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University. He wrote the award winning BBC 2 documentary 'River Racing', which surveyed the history of rowing on the Tyne. In his presentation he will chart this fascinating and overlooked part of local sporting tradition.

 

The presentations will conclude with a short performance of Joe Wilson songs, sung by Alan Fitzsimmons, known as 'Fitzy' on Tyneside and beyond. Alan is a member of 'The Keelers' and was a founding member of the Gosforth Folk Club.

 

Refreshments will be provided.


Booking information:


Please reserve a place by emailing objectstoseefurther@gmail.com

 

In partnership with Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums and made possible through support from Port of Tyne, Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund
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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Marcus Coates: 'Diamonds Always Come in Small Packages' Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, CH

Image: Marcus Coates, The Trip, 2011, Single Channel Video, Duration: 34:28 min (MC0134) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Diamonds Always Come in Small Packages

Kunstmuseum Luzern

Switzerland, CH
info@kunstmuseumluzern.ch


04.07 - 11.10.2015

 

Marcus Coates, Elmgreen & Dragset, Susanne Hofer, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Clare Kenny, Alicja Kwade, Swantje La Moutte, Esther Meier-Ringger, Edit Oderbolz, Adrian Rast & Valentin Beck, Gitte Schäfer, Loredana Sperini, Michiro Tokushige, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Erwin Wurm, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Eva Zwimpfer and objects from a private collection in Lucerne

 

The architecture of the Kunstmuseum invites to exhibit and think in large, extensive, and exorbitant scales. Paradoxically, however, in this year's summer exhibition the exact opposite is about to happen: the international group exhibition is bringing together small, tiny, minutely detailed objects. Rather than huge installations and overwhelming formats the public discovers little gems and jewels. Sometimes the gaze is almost swamped, doesn't know where to look and keeps encountering new things. On the other hand the treasure somehow is barely recognisable, because a diamond in its rough state is unimpressive and only reveals its value on closer inspection.

 

Spectacular gestures only seem to dominate the contemporary art, because a visit to the artists' studios shows the opposite: small objects, valuable collections of tiny things, delicately precious items and detailed research everywhere! In this way the exhibition does not just bring together what is gold and gleams, but also small treasures, curiosities and miniatures as well as simple ideas, modest gestures, swift ideas and minimal interventions.

 

Kunstmuseum Luzern
Europaplatz 1
6002 Luzern
Switzerland
Phone +41 (0) 41 226 78 00
Fax +41 (0) 41 226 78 01
info@kunstmuseumluzern.ch

www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Workplace London | Brown's London Art Weekend | Friday, July 3 - Sunday, July 5

Image: (above) Jennifer Douglas, SO Installation image at Workplace London,

(below) Jennifer Douglas, Untitled (Painting #11), 2015, Floor paint and carbon paper pigment on canvas, 240 x 150 cm (diptych) 94 1/2 x 59 1/8 in (JD0114) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Brown's London Art Weekend

WORKPLACE LONDON
61 Conduit Street
London, W1S 2GB, UK
44 (0)207 434 1985

 

Extended gallery hours & special events
Friday, 3rd July - Sunday, 5th July, 2015
Friday & Saturday, 10 AM - 6 PM
Sunday, 11 AM - 5 PM

Join us for a guided tour of our current exhibition, 'SO,' by artist Jennifer Douglas with refreshments served from 17.00 on Friday 3rd July.

To RSVP, contact Karen Davies +44 (0)207 434 1985 or karen@workplacegallery.co.uk

 

http://londonartweekend.co.uk/galleries/workplace-gallery/

 

http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/

2015 marks the second year of Brown's London Art Weekend where one hundred Mayfair and St. James's galleries and auction houses open their doors to the public for talks, walks, and exhibitions, with extended hours.

 

 
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Darren Banks: 'CORNUCOPIA' Syson Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Image: Darren Banks, Altar, 2015, Mixed media, Dimensions variable, DB0092 Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

CORNUCOPIA

Syson Gallery

3-5 High Pavement,

Nottingham, NG1 1HF

UK

 

25th June - 8th August

Wednesday - Sunday 12noon - 6pm

 

DARREN BANKS, HOLLY DAVEY,  YELENA POPOVA,  ELIZABETH ROWE

 

Cornucopia convenes several historic collections and examines the individual stories of collectors who catalogued objects, compiled cabinets and constructed galleries. A word commonly used in the eighteenth century to describe eclectic personal collections (meaning 'plenty'), Cornucopia features work made by contemporary artists in response to a particular setting or individual involved in the pursuit of collection. In some instances, the subject of the work is another artist within a collection.

 

Michel Foucault described museums as a specific kind of hetrotopia or sealed utopia - defining 'a slice in time'. A personal collection can hold a mirror to an individual's interpretation of a particular time and place. This exhibition takes its cue from the collections of assorted individuals who were able to collect for numerous social and economic reasons at different points in history; perhaps as a leader of industry, a pillar of Empire, through working in institutions -holding a scientific or artistic interest or simply through personal wealth. The work featured here is a mirror held up to those collections by contemporary artists.

 

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