Catherine Bertola: "Metes and Bounds" Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin

Metes and Bounds Catherine Bertola and Pauline Kraneis Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin, Germany 1 May to 19 June 2010       Catherine Bertola shows two recent works Unseen by all but me alone and From the palace at Hillstreet. Recent work From the palace at Hillstreet has developed from the artist's on going exploration of the nascent stages of the women's movement in the 18th century. In From the palace at Hillstreet, three fragments of carpet are shown, which have been re-made over a period of nine months by the artist and by volunteers. This carpet was originally commissioned by Elizabeth Montagu, the leader of the Bluestockings Society and was made for her dressing room, which held the first meeting of this underwritten but powerfully influential group that affected the history of women's rights. The importance of this work lies not only in the re-activation of a hand-craft which is now mechanised and exported out-with the UK, but also to remember the importance of the Bluestockings Society in history. The meetings held by the group were social events in which the group's members used their fortunate social and financial standing to initiate the fight for gender equality in the UK at a very early stage. The members of the Bluestocking Society sought and effected change directly by using their fortunate position to commissioning talented female practitioners of the time in order to see them included in art and craft history.   Pauline Kraneis is devoted to the definition of drawing in parallel to the definition of both mental and physical space. Kraneis' work often uses furnishing within the interiors of both private and public buildings to explore the cross-over of mental and physical space. By the omission of furniture or interior features these interventions translate the chosen spaces into installations which pull apart the visual perception of the space  . The artist acts with boisterous action to create spaces where imagination and reality overlap, and are reproduced on paper in order to draw the viewer into the middle image. image: Catherine Bertola From the Palace at Hillstreet (detail) 2009 Canvas and Wool Fragments of a Robert Adam carpet pattern designed for Mrs Montagu 'Queen of the Bluestockings'. Made from 96 segments stitched by over 60 people over a six month period. 250 x 250 cm

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Catherine Bertola: "metes and bounds" Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin-Mitte

Peter J. Evans: "Aphrodite at the Water Hole" DEATHANDDADA at Glasgow International Festival, UK

Aphrodite at the Water Hole Alex Baggaley Malcy Duff Hannah Ellul  Peter J. Evans Marten Frerichs Martin Hamblen Laura Harrington Lena Henke Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir Erling Klingenberg Achim Lengerer Linda Molenaar Noma Sebastian Stöhrer Amalia Theodorakopoulos Eva-Maria Wilde Wounded Knee Slap bang in the middle of the GI Festival, DEATHANDDADA open the top floor of a tenement and invite you to their inaugural show, Aphrodite at the Water Hole. 17 European artists have been invited into 2 neighbouring family homes to create works that contend with domestic life in rented accommodation. Named for one of the most visionary totalitarian sculptures to fall through the floor of a flat, Aphrodite at the Water Hole invites the possibility of freedom, hope and disaster. Artists with precious little thought of a lease will take residence alongside 2 families and drip their egos all over the place. The opening on April 24th will include performances: live music by Wounded Knee and Noma on 25th. DEATHANDDADA is a collaboration between artists Rachel Lowther, Amalia Theodorakopoulos and Fritz Welch. Flats 2/1, 2/2, 5 Hillhead St, at the top of the steps from Great Western Road. Open 2-6pm on two weekends (April 24th & 25th and May 1st & 2nd) and by appointment in between. fungalhex@hotmail.com www.glasgowinternational.org image: Peter J. Evans Remembrance, 2008 Site Specific Drawing at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead as part of FEEDBACKER (PJE0057) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Catherine Bertola: "Killing Time" - Workplace Gallery at OPEN SPACE, Art Cologne 2010

Workplace Gallery presents: Killing Time A new 16mm Film Installation by Catherine Bertola Open Space, 44th Art Cologne, April 21 - 25, 2010 www.openspace-cologne.com Hall 11, Cologne - Deutz Exhibition Centre Messeplatz 1 50679 Cologne, Germany In her recent series of works Killing Time Catherine Bertola has filmed historic photographs of English Country Houses. Having fallen into disrepair or demolished some time ago, each of these interior spaces no longer exists. In choosing to film the lost settings (a medium associated with the 'live' or a representation of the live moment) Bertola re-animates the interiors, creating a haunting image where a lost past is rendered visible in the present. Within each interior Bertola has superimposed her own image, re-occupying the historic spaces with her contemporary presence. The placement of her body swamped by the interior decor of the large rooms imbues the image with an immense sense of isolation. This isolation mirrors the presence of previous female occupants whose role within these lavish interiors echoed the decorative design of the room - a theater set for their own display - their days spent sitting, sewing, 'killing time'. With Bertola's presence the interior settings, or sets become a haunted space - part historical, part contemporary, and always on the edge of the fantastical. This sense of the fantastical is further enhanced by Bertola's choice of using postcard sized film screens whose small format recall illustrations from history and story books. (Extract from Dream Birds by Laura Mansfield included in a new monograph published by Workplace Gallery focusing on recent works by Catherine Bertola available at Open Space and from www.workplacegallery.co.uk) Image: Catherine Bertola Killing Time (detail), 2010 16mm film installation Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery UK

Eric Bainbridge: "The Economy of The Gift" A Foundation, Liverpool, UK

The Economy of The Gift Preview 8 April 2010, 6-9pm Exhibition continues until 22 May 2010. A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool L1 0BY Tel: 44 (0)151 706 0600 info@afoundation.org.uk www.afoundation.org.uk artists: Brass Art Eric Bainbridge Geta Bratescu Jacob Dahlgren Mark Harasimowicz Rebecca Lennon Elodie Pong Shaun O'Dell Participating Galleries: Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm Bureau, Manchester Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool Freymond-Guth & Co Fine Arts, Zurich The International 3, Manchester Ivan Gallery, Bucharest Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, New York Workplace Gallery, Gateshead Collectors Salon Friday 9 April 2010, 12pm-3pm (Booking essential) RSVP and advance booking 44 (0)151 706 0600 info@afoundation.org.uk image: Eric Bainbridge Self Portrait (After Rembrandt), 2010 Printed PVC Banner 660 x 500 cms (260.04 x 197 inches) (EB0210) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Marcus Coates & Matt Stokes: "Decalogue: Films You Can Count on Two Hands" Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA

Decalogue : Films You Can Count on Two Hands Organized by Eve Sussman March 27 - May 2, 2010 Opening: Saturday, March 27, 6-8 PM Screening Hours: Tues - Sat. 11-7 PM, Sun. 2-6 PM Winkleman Gallery is extremely pleased to present "Decalogue : Films You Can Count on Two Hands" an "exhibition as film festival" organized by Eve Sussman and featuring works by 10 international artists and contemporary filmmakers whose work is recognized for its innovative approaches to narrative. Converting the gallery space into a cinema, with vintage theater seating and a state-of-the-art screening system, "Decalogue : Films You Can Count on Two Hands" will operate on a regular cinema house schedule with a new double featuring running continuously each week. OPENING - March 27, 6 - 8 pm Trailers/Excerpts from the ten filmmakers WEEK 1: MARCH 30 - April 4 Jim Finn - "Interkosmos" Marcus Coates - "Radio Shaman" / "The Plover's Wing" WEEK 2 : April 6 - April 11 Johan Grimonprez - "dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" Erin Cosgrove - "What Manner of Person Art Thou?" WEEK 3: April 13 - April 18 Julian Rosefeldt - "Lonely Planet" Matt Stokes - "Long After Tonight" WEEK 4: April 20 - April 25 Simon Lee & Algis Kizys - "Where Is the Black Beast?" Christine Rebet - "The Soul Hunter" / "The Black Cabinet" / "Tell me about your dreams" / "Brand Band News" WEEK 5: April 27 - MAY 2 Leslie Thornton - "Peggy and Fred in Hell" Chris Sollars - "C Red Blue J"

Sophie Lisa Beresford & Matt Stokes: Prize Winners at Journal Culture Awards 2010

VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR Matt Stokes NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR Sophie Lisa Beresford Workplace Gallery represented artists were successful at the Journal Culture Awards at The Gala Theatre in Durham last night. Matt Stokes won Visual Artist Of The Year and Sophie Lisa Beresford won Newcomer Of The Year. Catherine Bertola was also nominated for Visual Artist Of The Year. http://www.journallive.co.uk/ Images: Sophie Lisa Beresford The Adidas Mermaid 2009 Lamda Print 31 x 44 cms Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Matt Stokes The Gainsborough Packet, production still 2009 Super 16mm Film and Audio Transferred to Hard Drive 8 min 56 sec Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Cecilia Stenbom: "Artists Talk" ISIS Arts, Newcastle, UK

ISIS ARTS INVITES YOU TO AN ARTIST TALK EVENT WITH SWEDISH ARTIST Cecilia Stenbom WEDNESDAY 17TH MARCH 2010 18:00 – 20:00 Come to meet and hear about the work of ISIS Arts artist in residence, Cecilia Stenbom. Refreshments will be available. The event is free and everyone interested is welcome although space is limited, so please RSVP: isis@isisarts.org.uk or ring 0191 261 4407. Cecilia Stenbom’s  artworks and films explore notions of identity and relationships in a  mediated world. She examines our desires by appropriating genres of mass  media and commodity such as advertising, documentary and the TV movie,  fulfilling the expectations that those genres set up. Previous works have included “The Protocol” (2008), a re-enactment  of an American infomercial, “The Inspector” (2007) a narrative  based on female television cops and “Search & Destroy” (2006)  a “first person” account of experiences as a US marine in  the Vietnam War based on cult movies on that subject. During the research residency at ISIS Arts Cecilia is developing and  producing a new body of work that is investigating capitalisation and  dramatisation of domestic concerns, such as health, security and safety.  As  part of this project, Cecilia is using a wide range of source material  such as real rescue drama documentaries, mortality statistics and first  aid equipment. This project will culminate in a solo exhibition at Workplace  Gallery in 2010. Cecilia has received a grant from Arts Council England  to develop and produce this work. “In my artworks my subject is myself. Through my own image I explore notions of identity and relationships in a mediated world. I examine our desires by appropriating genres of mass media and commodity such as advertising, documentary and the TV movie, fulfilling the expectations that those genres set up. Through the means of a kind of narcissistic projection into fantastical roles such as a US Marine, Police Cop, or Multilingual Translator I try to find ways to examine the systems inherent in contemporary culture. Forming a knowingly amateurish pastiche I attempt to carry through to completion the wants of a culture that I see constantly beckoning to a place that arguably should never be reached. ” Cecilia Stenbom 2009                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Cecilia works in a wide range of material including drawing,  painting, installation, sculpture, artists books, and photography, although  her main focus lies in video. She has exhibited extensively nationally  and internationally and recent exhibitions include “WRO Media Art  Biennale” in Wroclaw, Poland, “Trickle Down Theory”,  at Korjaamo in Helsinki, Finland and “In the City” in Sunderland  City Centre. Cecilia is represented by Workplace  Gallery <http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk> , Gateshead and her video work is distributed by AV-arkki, Helsinki, Finland. Cecilia Stenbom was born in Stockholm  in 1976. She studied Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland  where she completed a Bachelor degree. In 2003 she moved to Scotland to  do a MFA at Glasgow School of Art. After completing her MFA she moved to  the North East of England to live and work. www.ceciliastenbom.se www.workplacegallery.co.uk Information on ISIS Arts ISIS Arts is an artist led, visual and media arts organisation with an international artist residency, commissions, training and research programme. Their programme seeks to address themes of identity and cultural understanding and they engage with artists to produce work that challenges and presents social issues within new contexts.       ISIS has two studio spaces for visiting artists, a media training room, and an inflatable touring venue for sharing media arts with a wider audience. From their Newcastle base ISIS works with over 100 artists a year supporting practice and exchange. www.isisarts.org.uk ISIS Arts first floor, 5 Charlotte Square, Newcastle, NE1 4XF. Tel: +44 (0) 191 261 4407 Fax: +44 (0) 191 261 6818 http://www.isisarts.org.uk/ image: Cecilia Stenbom The Rescue 2010 Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Laura Lancaster: 'Paintings From England & America' - CRISP, London - Thurs 11th March 6-8pm

Laura Lancaster, Untitled, 2010, Oil on Board, 30 x 41 cm (LL0265) PAINTINGS FROM ENGLAND & AMERICA CRISP 3 Newman Passage, London, W1T 1EG 11 March - 17 April 2010 Private view: Thursday, 11 March, 6-8pm CRISP presents PAINTINGS FROM ENGLAND & AMERICA: NEWCASTLE (Laura Lancaster), NEW YORK (Spencer Sweeney), BRISTOL (Rhys Coren), MILWAUKEE (Peter Barrickman), LONDON (Alexis Marguerite Teplin), LOS ANGELES (Rob Thom). LAURA LANCASTER (B. 1979) lives and works in NEWCASTLE, UK. Solo exhibitions include Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2009), Bailiffgate Museum, Northumberland (2009), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2008).  Group exhibitions include Green On Red Gallery, Dublin (2009), Islands Never Found  Touring to Museums in Athens, Napoli, and Valencia (2009), Coopers Building, Newcastle (2009),  Star & Shadow Gallery, Newcastle (2009), Ma2 Gallery, Tokyo (2008),  Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2008). SPENCER SWEENEY (B. 1973) lives and works in NEW YORK CITY, USA. Solo exhibitions include VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin (2010), Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York (2009), Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2008), The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2008). Group exhibitions include Gavin Brown's enterprise (2009), Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia (2009), PS1, New York (2008), Whitney Biennial, New York (2006). RHYS COREN (B. 1983) lives and works in BRISTOL, UK. Solo exhibitions include Old Shoreditch Station, London (2009), Star and Dove Contemporary Artspace, Bristol (2008). Groups exhibitions include Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France (2009), ISCP, New York (2009), FACT, Liverpool (2009), Spike Island, Bristol (2008), Jamaican Street, Bristol (2008), Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2007). PETER BARRICKMAN (B. 1978) lives and works in MILWAUKEE, USA. Solo exhibitions include The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee (2009). Group exhibitions include And/Or Gallery, Dallas (2009), Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago (2009), Dean Jensen Gallery Milwaukee (2008), The Swiss Institute New York, NY (2008), Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles (2008), The Green Gallery, Milwaukee (2007). ALEXIS MARGEURITE TEPLIN (B. 1976) lives and works in LONDON, UK. Solo exhibitions include Mary Mary, Glasgow (2010), Blanket Contemporary, Vancouver (2009), Car Projects, Bologna (2008), HOTEL, London (2008). Group exhibitions include Mary Mary, Glasgow (2009), CCA Andratx, Spain, curated by Barry Schwabsky (2009), GSK Contemporary (2008), Royal Academy, London (2008), Liverpool Biennale (2008), Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London (2008). ROB THOM (B. 1975) lives and works in LOS ANGELES, USA. Solo exhibitions include China Art Objects (2008), Black Dragon Society, (2006). Group Exhibitions include Happy Lion, Los Angeles (2009), Cottage Home, Los Angeles (2009), Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles (2008), Cottage Home, Los Angeles (2008). Current | SCULPTURE ROOF: Justin Beal until 17 April 2010. CRISP is open Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6pm.

Ant Macari and Mike Pratt: [Im]Perfect Articles, VOLTA Show, New York, USA

Imperfect Articles announce participation in VOLTA NY.  VOLTA NY runs this week Thursday 2PM-8PM and Friday - Sunday 11AM-7PM.  It is located at 7 West 34th Street, between 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.  They will be releasing 8 new t-shirt editions by: EliKuka Misaki Kwai Ant Macari Mike Pratt Mark Schubert  Oliver Schultze Jered Sprecher Zack Storm Additionally, they will be showing edition shirts by Atsushi Kaga, Sterling Ruby, David Shrigley, Claire Sherman, David Godbold, Rachel Niffenegger, Rashid Johnson, and Clare E Rojas. http://www.imperfectarticles.com http://www.voltashow.com/ Founded in the balmy summer of 2004, Imperfect Articles is the collaborative effort of artists Noah Singer & Mike Andrews. Based in the Humbolt Park area of Chicago, Illinois, Imperfect Articles has been featured in Time Out Chicago, The Chicago Reader, Chicago Magazine, The New City (Chicago), Flare Magazine, Venus, XL8R, Cargo and W Magazine. Merging a clothing brand and site-less gallery, Imperfect Articles takes an experimental approach to curatorial practice with limited-edition, hand-dyed and hand screen-printed t-shirts. Imperfect Articles challenges the relationship between image, audience and "exhibition" space with a new model of distribution that highlights work by emerging and established artists alike, conflating concepts of fine art, design and fashion. Each shirt is an original, one-of-a-kind, numbered edition; our newest shirts are pressings of 30, 40 or 50 shirts only. Once the shirt is sold that's it. All our shirts are hand-dyed, 100% cotton American Apparel short sleeve, fine jersey tees. Imperfect Articles is an on-going project and usually print between 50-100 new designs a year. We also can be found at various art fairs in Chicago, New York, Miami and Switzerland -- join our mailing list to keep up on our latest project! image: Mike Pratt Rubber Neck Edition of 30

Jennifer Douglas: 'The Short Score', DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Durham UK

Jennifer Douglas The Short Score DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery Preview Friday 5th March at 6:00pm www.durham.gov.uk/dli The Short Score is a newly commissioned work by Jennifer Douglas that brings a sense of playful, but also demanding, investigation of 'matter' through her creation of intricate worlds of fantasy. Viewers are invited to test their boundaries and notions of objects and space, fiction and reality. Spanning drawing, sculpture, and installation, Douglas's work reveals structures of thought that are both abstract and literal. Among the variety of ways in which artists produce their work, two predominate.  The artist may either engage in extensive research and planning prior to the work's execution, in which case the work's 'problems' have been more or less 'solved' in what might be called its preliminary design process; or, they may adopt a more intuitive approach, responding to materials and entering into an open dialogue with them as the work develops. It is the latter that characterises the working process of Jennifer Douglas. Such extemporization does not necessarily result, however, in the inconsistency or arbitrariness that one might expect from unregulated freedom.  Certain techniques, formal arrangements and aesthetic preferences recur, giving the artist's work - in this case Douglas's - the coherence of a virtual language. (Extract from Passage Through The Wood by John Calcutt) Currently based in Gateshead, Douglas's recent projects include a billboard commission for the Jerwood Space in London and numerous international solo and group exhibitions including those at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead,  and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. The Short Score runs until Sunday 18th April

Workplace Gallery at The Armory Show, New York : Eric Bainbridge & Marcus Coates

Workplace Gallery is pleased to present new work by Eric Bainbridge Marcus Coates THE ARMORY SHOW PIER 94 Booth 541 MARCH 4-7, 2010 http://www.thearmoryshow.com Eric Bainbridge (b.1955 UK) has presented numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries including Supercollage Galleria Caroline & Salvatore Ala, Milan 2009, Forward Thinking MIMA, Middlesbrough 2008, DELFINA, London 1997, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1989, ICA, Boston 1987, and Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis 1986. Forthcoming exhibitions include British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London and The Economy A Foundation, Liverpool. Group exhibitions include Monologue/Dialogue at Bangkok University Gallery, Collage at The Bloomberg Space, London, Glad That Things Don't Talk at Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Anxious Object, STORE, London, Etc, Amagerfaelledvej Art Project, Copenhagen, and New Generations - Sculpture in Britain 1951-2000, Leeds City Art Gallery. Marcus Coates (b.1968, UK) has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Forthcoming projects include Sydney Biennial 2010, Serpentine Gallery London, 2010. Exhibitions include: Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery 2010, Kunsthalle Zurich 2009, Altermodern, Tate Triennial, London 2009, Diawa Prize Winner at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo 2009, New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, USA, Manifesta7, Trento, Italy 2008. Coates received the Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award 2008 and the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2009 and was the Calouste Gulbenkian Artist in Residence in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 2008. Coates lives and works in London. image (top): Eric Bainbridge Untitled, 2010 Cut Paper 28.5 x 21.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery image (below): Marcus Coates Vision Quest with Chrome Hoof (detail) Coronet Theatre *1, London 2009 digital c-type print 115 x 163 cm photography: Nick David  Produced by Nomad, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week. For a full list of available works please contact info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Catherine Bertola: "Walls are talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture" Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Walls are talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture

Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester

6 February - 3 May 2010
Preview: Friday 5 February, 6-8pm

The first major UK exhibition of artists' wallpapers with work by over 30 artists including Andy Warhol, Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. Kitsch ideas of home decoration are turned upside down as artists subvert the stereotypes of wallpaper to hit home messages about warfare, racism, cultural conflicts and gender.

The exhibition is grouped around themes: subversion, commodification, imprisonment and sexuality. In Sonia Boyce's work Clapping, a feeling of claustrophobia and menace is strengthened by the repeated design of the black and white hand print. Zineb Sedira uses wallpaper patterns to illustrate social inequalities and gender difference from her French-Algerian Islamic perspective.

Thomas Demand, one of the foremost conceptual artists working today, covers the entire South Gallery in his Ivy wallpaper - intricate pieces of paper cut out and photographed make up a lifelike work of imprisoning beauty. In stark contrast to this are popular commercial papers that reinforce cultural and gender stereotypes; from Barbie or the Spice Girls to the use of male symbols such as beer cans, football teams or idealised female bodies.

Whether amusing, like David Shrigley's Industrial Estate, or startling, like Bashir Makhoul's Points of View, the rolls of paper in this exhibition provide an unprecedented insight into a bold and progressive contemporary art form. Wallpaper has long been thought of as a backdrop to the main event. With so many prominent designers and artists using the medium as their primary method of expression, this exhibition provides a timely exploration of the possibilities and power of print.

http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk

image:
Catherine Bertola
Beyond the looking glass (detail)
2010
ash and paper
New Commissioned work for 'Walls are Talking'
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Cath Campbell, Peter J. Evans, Ant Macari, Richard Rigg: "Brick by Brick" xsite Architecture, Newcastle, UK

XSITE ARCHITECTURE, FOUNDRY LANE STUDIOS, FOUNDRY LANE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 1LH.
http://www.xsitearchitecture.co.uk/

Exhibition runs until 5th March 2010
Open Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm or by appointment

Last chance to vote for Matt Stokes: "Northern Art Prize 2009" Leeds Art Gallery, UK

To vote for Matt Stokes to win this years Northern Art Prize 2009 Click here Northern Art Prize 2009 Pavel Buchler, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Rachel Goodyear, and Matt Stokes 27 November 2009 - 21 February 2010 at Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA Open Mon-Tues Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm, Wed 12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm Selectors The selectors for 2009 are Patricia Bickers (Editor, Art Monthly), Richard Deacon (Artist), Paul Hobson (Director, Contemporary Art Society), Peter Murray (Director, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) and Tanja Pirsig-Marshall (Curator of Exhibitions, Leeds Art Gallery). The winning artist will be announced on 21 January 2010, scooping the £16,500 prize money whilst each of the runners up will receive £1500. Image: Matt Stokes These Are the Days (Production Still), 2009 Dual Channel video 16mm Film Transferred to Hard Drive (MS0033) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK and Ziehersmith, New York

Psychic Geography - Preview: Friday 22nd January, 6pm - 9pm

Psychic Geography Eric Bainbridge Sophie Lisa Beresford David Blandy Dan Ford Laura Lancaster Mike Pratt James Richards Daniel Silver Lara Viana 23rd January – 20th February 2010 Tues - Sat, 11am -5pm (or by appointment) Preview: Friday 22nd January, 6-9pm “…The psychic geographer specializes in spotting that place where humans and their environment meld and we can no longer speak of individual will as such, but only communal or sometimes corporate imperatives, the desires of the space as it speaks through the body politic that inhabits it” 1 Workplace Gallery is pleased to present Psychic Geography a group exhibition of new and existing works by nine diverse artists. The exhibition includes Collage, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Video that examines the interaction between spaces and people, places and identity. In a new series of collages by Eric Bainbridge, base elements taken from interior design and fashion magazines are cleverly disguised through simple manipulation. Eyes, mouths, sinks, stairs are all hidden, replaced with abstracted patterned forms themselves cut from the same source to leave us with hybrid unsettling images that are both familiar and absurd. In The First and Second Creation part of an ongoing series of intimate and revelatory ‘to camera’ videos Sophie Lisa Beresford attempts to communicate her complex and unified world view whilst also exploring with her own problematic and paradoxical relationship to making ‘Art’ and to ‘Being’. David Blandy’s work highlights the slippage and tension between fantasy and reality. In Hollow Bones Blandy performs Syl Johnson’s underground soul classic "Is It Because I’m Black" in an inverted “whiteface” version of the racist stereotype from American theatre of the 19th Century, popularized until 1978 in the BBC Television’s “The Black & White Minstrel Show“. Blandy’s film takes an alternative position: by appropriating the politically ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ he finds an antiheroic and morally ambiguous alter-ego that becomes archetypal and symbolic of Blandy’s quest for identity and cultural position. Dan Ford’s paintings and drawings examine the design industry aesthetics found in disparate pockets of visual culture such as knitting patterns, S&M magazines, sauna brochures and comic books. In Sheet 2009 a page of Dildos is the starting point for a small delicate painting in which shapes become merely motifs that expose the quality of the image against the artists sense of placement and appropriation. Laura Lancaster’s new series of 21 portrait paintings deconstruct the photographs they are copied from to such an extent that faces and features are obliterated with painterly gesture. The almost monochrome works leave us guessing as to the period, class, and identity of the subjects. Short Back And Sides (Bombay Bad Boy) is a new sculpture by Mike Pratt in which 12 classic art school plaster busts are reduced to the role of plinth for an assemblage of furniture and found objects. Through a process of re-enacting, borrowing and re-appropriation Pratt comments upon the cycle of assimilation constantly evolving from an affecting voice or act into popular culture. James Richards uses the accumulation and reassembly of imagery as a devotional and elegiac process. In his looped video Misty Boundaries Has Left the Room he entices us with a quick fire sequence of brief vignettes: a puff of steam, a hand being held, soap bubbles, a blizzard, followed by a clip from a television programme about how to draw until a girl zones out in a classroom as the tutorial explains how to realistically depict an eye. Daniel Silver’s sculptural installation Studies for Adam and Eve (1-3) mixes found objects with small sculptures presented in a series of altar like cabinets. Silver’s works play with universal values and tradition presenting us with ambiguous figures that echo religious artifact, iconic sculpture, mutation, and disfigurement. For Lara Viana painting itself is a tool for transport. In her recent paintings we are taken to the tabletop aftermath of opulent dinner parties. The fluid marks symbolise an experience of these forms and subjects, dreamlike in their foggy depictions, and at the same time, as substantially real as the memory of a past experience. To celebrate the opening of Psychic Geography there is an Afterparty at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art from 9pm onwards, with special guest DJ's and drinks promotions. Dan Ford and James Richards are shown Courtesy of the artist and Moot Gallery, Nottingham. Daniel Silver is shown Courtesy of the artist and IBID PROJECTS, London. Lara Viana is shown Courtesy of DOMOBAAL, London. For more information contact info@workplacegallery.co.uk Kindly supported by: 1 Extract from A Brief Explanation of Psychic Geography by Matthew Everett, published in The Agenda, Issue #15, 2006

AFTERPARTY - BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art, Friday 22nd January, 9pm - Late

AFTERPARTY Friday 22nd January 2010 BALTIC Cafe/Bar: 9pm - Late BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA Special Guest DJ's and Drinks Promotions Admission Free AFTERPARTY is an event organised by Workplace Gallery and Sailor Girl Ltd to co-incide with the preview of the group exhibition Psychic Geography at Workplace Gallery. For more information please contact: info@workplacegallery.co.uk or visit: www.workplacegallery.co.uk

Marcus Coates: 'Psychopomp' Milton Keynes Gallery, UK. 15 Jan - 4 April 2010

Marcus Coates Psychopomp Milton Keynes Gallery 15 January - 4 April 2010 Preview: 14 January 2010, 6pm until late 7pm: Speeches followed by drinks, canapés and music Milton Keynes Gallery 900 Midsummer Boulevard, MK9 3QA www.mk-g.org Preview: Getting Here Ride in style from London to Milton Keynes by coach with onboard performances: Seats Of Learning by Brown Mountain College Depart: 15 Jan 5.15pm from the Whitechapel Gallery Return: 9.30pm from Milton Keynes Gallery Cost: £5 (booking essential) Call Joanne Trotter on 01908 676 900 or email j.trotter@mk-g.org Alternatively, there are frequent trains from London Euston with a short taxi ride to Gallery

Darren Banks: 'Soothsayers' - Sierra Metro, Edinburgh

DARREN BANKS - SOOTHSAYERS OONAGH HEGARTY - TABLOID ALCHEMY 17 January - 28 February 2010 Preview: Saturday 16 January from 7pm with live music and visuals from The Turing Test Sierra Metro presents new work by Darren Banks and Oonagh Hegarty. Please join us for a drink and live music from Newcastle based duo The Turing Test to celebrate the opening of our first two exhibitions of 2010. Open Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm Sierra Metro Ground Floor North, 22 West Harbour Road Granton, Edinburgh EH5 1PN info@/www.sierrametro.com

Marcus Coates: "All Creatures Great And Small" Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Marcus Coates Human Report 2008 Single Channel Video 7:14 minute loop Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK British Council Collection Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw All Creatures Great and Small 18th December 2009 – 21st February, 2010 All Creatures Great and Small develops themes initiated in the exhibition Hot/Cold — Summer Loving shown in Zacheta in 2007 that presented different forms of love, including the love humans feel for animals. The forthcoming exhibition concentrates only on the problem of the world of animals, exploring artists' diverse takes on this problem and the range of ways of visualizing it in art. The point of entry for the exhibition is the desire to overcome the dogmatic anthropocentrism that places the human in the centre of the world as a privileged species of the highest ontological status. This viewpoint continues to dominate in contemporary science, and as a consequence we witness the exclusion of other species/phenomena of life on earth from the sphere of scientific knowledge in terms of their subjectivity or rights. The theory of evolution presented in the book The Origin of Species (for which this year was a double anniversary, since it was 150 years since it was first published and 200 years since the birth of its author, Charles Darwin) put humans on the summit of the animal hierarchy, but not as a separate ‘super-animal’, but as a species that was part and parcel of nature and subject to its processes in the chain of natural changes. In 1872, Darwin published another book: On the Expression of Emotion in Humans and Animals, describing the world of animals through expressions of emotions which up until that point has been the purview only of the human species. This was a revolutionary thought for its day which presented animals and people not as separate or antagonistic worlds, but as connected to one another by degrees of similarity and close ties. Although discontented commentators write that contemporary science generally encounters the Other only at its daily meal times (animals are often included in the group of all Others excluded by society or existing at its margins, beyond the ‘centre’), nonetheless worthy of attention is a new wave of books, accounts and texts written between the 1960s and today (a large part in which was no doubt played by the ecological movements and struggles for animal rights that emerged on the wave of revolutionary changes in the 60s) formulating new approaches to the non-human world, its relations with the human world and vice-versa, and thus opening up new philosophical or ethical questions. One of the elements in the radical changes in art, that also began in the 1960s, has been the fundamental change undergone in the way that artists approach the animal world and the relations between people and animals. The works shown visualize this world in its diverse aspects through the use of less or more engaged observation, the pleasure of watching, touching or possessing through domestication, the pleasures experienced by animals themselves in play, but also the question of enclosing their existences into the ghetto known as Zoological Garden. Works also make reference to difficult questions concerning the use of animals as commodities, of causing them pain and suffering, of eating their bodies. Many works upturn the semantics of animals, giving them the symbolic significance which culture has denied them through civilisational change. In others, animals become participants in experiments through which we observe their mutual interactions, or are also a part of formal artistic experiments. Amongst the questions relating to the relations between humans and animals are to be found works on the animalist aspect of human nature and on the desire to identify with an Other by ‘becoming animal’. The exhibition presents this world from a human perspective (as we do not know any other), and thus in the background also sketches out the image of humans as they emerges through their relations with the animal world. The exhibition presents the works of the following artists: Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Pilar Albaracin, Francis Alys, Dan Attoe, Roger Ballen, Kuba Bąkowski, Joseph Beuys, Bogna Burska, John Bock, Olaf Brzeski, Mircea Cantor, David Claerbout, Marcus Coates, Peter Coffin, Anna Dębska, Mark Dion, VALIE EXPORT, Angus Fairhurst, Peter Fischli&David Weiss, Peter Friedl, Leszek Golec&Tatiana Czekalska, Douglas Gordon, Jean-Charles Hue, Elżbieta Janczak-Wałaszek, Agnes Janich, Christian Jankowski, Marina Kappos, Mike Kelley, Kristof Kintera, Grzegorz Kowalski, Igor Krenz, Natalia LL, Yuri Leiderman, Dominik Lejman, Marcin Maciejowski, Artur Malewski, Chris Marker, Rafał Milach, Ciprian Muresan, Yach Paszkiewicz, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Elisa Pône, Marc Quinn, Jozef Robakowski, Zygmunt Rytka, Alain Séchas, Ene-Liis Semper, Deborah Sengl, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Roman Signer, Dusan Skala, Gabrielle Stellbaum, Eric Swenson, Javier Téllez, Gabriela Vanga, Minette Vári, Bill Viola, Martin Walde, Marek Wasilewski, Boyd Webb, William Wegman, Paweł Wieckowiak, The Wooster Group, Wunderteam, Erwin Wurm.