Darren Banks: 'Deep Space' François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Deep Space Dan Bayles Neil Beloufa Darren Banks Sayre Gomez Shawn Greenlee Joel Kyack Anthony Lepore Candice Lin Jory Rabinovitz July 21 - August 18 2012 François Ghebaly Gallery 2600 La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034

Jo Coupe: "Pertaining to things Natural..." Chelsea Physic Garden, London, UK

Image: Jo Coupe Deep Impression 2012,  Lead, 18 x 15 x 15cm. courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Pertaining to Things Natural... 10 July - 31 October 2012 Chelsea Physic Garden London, UK http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/events/index.htm Artists: Owen Bullett, James Capper, Annie Cattrell, Jo Coupe, Joe Currie, Judith Dean, Chris Drury, Tessa Farmer, James P Graham, Greyworld, Tim Knowles, Tania Kovats, Keith Rand, Peter Randall-Page, William Peers, Michael Shaw, Cathy Ward & Eric Wright, Julian Wild, Hugo Wilson and David Worthington. This major outdoor sculpture exhibition presents monumental sculptural works, ephemeral land art projects and delicate interventions by over twenty leading artists. Curated by David Worthington, Vice President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, Pertaining to Things Natural... takes its name from the 17th century definition of 'physic' and is a reminder of the Physic Garden's founding mission as a place for the study of useful plants, especially those used in medicines. The exhibition takes place throughout the entire site, with works installed in greenhouses, the café, the entrance lobby and the composting area, as well as the garden itself. This is a unique opportunity to discover the response of contemporary artists to the history of the garden and to wider environmental issues.

Joe Clark "Screentest (For a Hero Shot)" Preview - Friday 22nd June, 6-9pm at Workplace Gallery

Image: Joe Clark, The Blue of the Distance 2012, Steel frame, Bike Components, 2 x Slide Projectors. 2012, Dimensions Variable. 120 x 190 x 300cm. Installation View Higher Atlas Marrakech Biennale 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK. Joe Clark  Screentest (For a Hero Shot) Preview: Friday 22nd June 2012 , 6 - 9pm Exhibition continues: 23rd June - 28th July 2012 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment) Workplace Gallery are pleased to announce Screentest (for a hero shot) our first solo exhibition by Joe Clark. Clark's new work investigates the unstable truths of the contemporary image through an appropriation of production methods used in commercial photography. Finding historical parallels in the strategies of Early Cubism, Clark explores this radical avant-garde abstraction of the pictorial image within the context of a consumer driven digital culture. Clark's immersive installation The Blue of the Distance is a mechanical stereo machine based around the effect achieved by crude 2-frame stereo GIF animations, and the working practices of early photo-chemical photographers who were sent out to record natural phenomena in stereo for the enjoyment of metropolitan audiences in Europe. Originally made for this year's Marrakech Biennale the work depicts an unspecified and generic peak in the atlas mountain range which lies to the south of the city. Two 35mm colour slides of the snow capped peak taken approximately 200m apart from an opposing ridge are projected from a steel structure that houses a lo-fi mechanism converted from salvaged bicycle components allowing the viewer to manually operate the machine. The Blue of the Distance explores the seductive promise of images and their ultimate failure to transport us anywhere. The C-Type series Asset Management made during a recent residency in Brazil alludes to the reduction of place and space to digital 'assets', which are then utilised in a photographic workflow towards the goal of a tightly calibrated photographic image. Using an image that contains the full 360° view of a scene from a fixed perspective an 'environment' is created that a simulated object may be placed inside. By rendering the model from the point of view of a virtual camera, the model can receive lighting information and accurate reflections, making it appear to be 'there'. "In this series I'm utilising and disrupting reflections by 'drawing' in space with mirrored polygons. The language of these drawings is somewhat expressive and opaque- attempting an articulation of an intuitive and perhaps more traditional mode of artistic expression within a technical apparatus." Joe Clark 2012 In an antonymous relationship to the Asset Management series Clark further explores the correlation between photography and an analytical consideration of Drawing through a series of minimal black and white photographs of planar objects constructed specifically for the single point perspective of the fixed studio camera. Through the photograph, the spatial information of the architectonic object is flattened into the 2-Dimensional picture plane: the edges of the object become linear compositional devices and the surface is simplified towards basic tonal grades. This effect is compounded by the making of the object to be purposefully reduced to 2-Dimensions, flatness is intrinsic to its design and it's 3-Dimensionality serves only to explore tone and line in a compositional sense. Made from differing grades of polystyrene these works eschew traditional material hierarchies to further distance themselves from the 'real'. In a world where digital image manipulation post-Photoshop has become de-rigueur and the distance between the professional photographer and amateur has narrowed significantly, Clark's works question how images are both made and received. His analytical deconstruction either through an explicit foregrounding of an apparatus that is present in the space, or through markers left within in the images allow the method of production to be traced and understood. The tension that arises is between this explication and the image itself. Joe Clark was born in 1982 in RAF Wegberg, B.A.O.R. Recent exhibitions include: Higher Atlas, Marrakech Biennale; New Contemporaries 2010 - ICA London and A-Foundation, Liverpool; Re:Animate, Oriel Mostyn, Wales. In 2012 Clark was artist in residence at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil, he studied in Northumbria University, Newcastle and The Slade School of Art, London. Clark lives and works in London, UK. Workplace Gallery was founded in 2005 by artists Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow. Based in Gateshead UK, Workplace Gallery represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and international art fairs. Workplace Gallery is currently located in The Old Post Office, Gateshead; a listed 19th Century red brick building built upon the site where the important British artist, engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) lived and died. Kindly supported by

Paul Merrick: "Malerei: Painting As Object" Transition Gallery, London, UK

Image: Untitled (Blue) 2010 Aluminium, Dust, 69 x 78 cm. courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Malerei: Painting As Object Helen Baker, Phyllida Barlow, Virginia Bodman, Sarah Bowker-Jones, Sean Edwards, Alexis Harding, Gabriel Hartley, Natalie Gale, Paul Merrick, Rudolf Polanszky and Sarah Kate Wilson Transition Gallery Unit 25a Regent Studios 8 Andrews Road London, E8 4QN Private View: Friday 8 June 2012, 18:00-21:00 Sat 9 June – 1st July, 12:00-1800 Fri – Sun "If destiny will grant me enough time I shall discover an international language which will endure forever and which will continue to enrich itself... its name will be Malerei painting." Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin,  Kandinsky (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979), p13. Malerei: Painting As Object investigates painting as a process, its guises and paint as a substance. Each artist shares a love of material and the qualities of their 'thing-ness', whether it's colour, oozing oil paint, balloons, cellophane or jesmonite. The artists however do not remain slavish to the visceral but also embody and appropriate particular areas of Paintings' history in their multidisciplinary practices. Artists will reveal a painterly investigation of the Modernist concern 'objecthood', Postmodern eclecticism and the Post-production - trend of continuous re-working. malereiexhibition.blogspot.co.uk Curated by Sarah Bowker-Jones, Natalie Gale and Sarah Kate Wilson

'Out of Sight, Out of Mind' - Preview: Friday 11th May, 6-9pm Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Image: Sophie Lisa Beresford Hands and Shit 2012, Mixed Media, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK     Out of Sight, Out of Mind Sophie Lisa Beresford Julien Carreyn Marcus Coates Tomaso De Luca Jennifer Douglas Joel Kyack Laura Lancaster Per Mårtensson Gina Osterloh Émilie Pitoiset George Young Preview: Friday 11th May 2012 , 6 - 9pm Exhibition continues: 12th May - 16th  June 2012 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment) Kindly supported by

Marcus Coates: "Galapagos" The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Image: Marcus Coates   Intelligent Design, 2009, Single Channel HD video, Duration 8 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Galapagos the Bluecoat School Lane Liverpool L1 3BX Fri, 04 May 2012 - Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10.00 AM - 6.00 PM Curated by Bergit Arends and Greg Hilty The Galápagos archipelago uniquely exemplifies the delicate tension between a pristine environment and human curiosity and intervention. Over 5 years, 12 artists visited these remote and beguiling islands returning home with film footage, drawings, photographs, sculptures, sounds and imaginings. The resulting exhibition offers a surprising and contemporary insight into the cultural reality, the human stories and the living laboratory of Galápagos. Artists featured: Jyll Bradley, Paulo Catrica, Filipa César, Marcus Coates, Dorothy Cross (with actor Fiona Shaw), Alexis Deacon, Jeremy Deller, Tania Kovats, Kaffe Matthews, Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) and Alison Turnbull. The Gulbenkian Galápagos Artists Residency Programme and Galápagos exhibition were organised by the Galapagos Conservation Trust in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with additional support from the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Natural History Museum, London. www.artistsvisitgalapagos.com

Eric Bainbridge: "Collages" The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK

Image: Untitled 2009 Cut Paper, 22 x 29cm. courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK. Eric Bainbridge Collages The New Art Gallery Walsall Gallery Square, Walsall, West Midlands WS2 8LG, UK http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk Preview: 3rd May 2012 6 - 8pm (co-inciding with the opening of 'Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage' and Arts Council Collection touring exhibition) Exhibition dates: 4th May - 21st July 2012 A new hardback monograph 'Eric Bainbridge Collages' is now available featuring contributions from Jonathan Griffin and Stephen Snoddy. (ISBN 9781907363016)

Paul Merrick: "Malerei: Painting As Object" New Bridge Space, Newcastle, UK

Image: Flag 2011 Fluorescent Strip Lights and Fittings, 121 x 243 x 13cm. courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK. (photo: Thierry Bal) Malerei: Painting As Object Helen Baker, Phyllida Barlow, Virginia Bodman, Sarah Bowker-Jones, Sean Edwards, Alexis Harding, Gabriel Hartley, Natalie Gale, Paul Merrick, Rudolf Polanszky and Sarah Kate Wilson NewBridge Space 18 New Bridge Street West Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AW Sat 21 April - Sat 26 May 12:00-1800 Mon- Sat PV: Fri 20 April 2012, 18:00-21:00 www.thenewbridgeproject.com "If destiny will grant me enough time I shall discover an international language which will endure forever and which will continue to enrich itself… its name will be Malerei painting." Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin,  Kandinsky (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979), p13. Malerei: Painting As Object investigates painting as a process, its guises and paint as a substance. Each artist shares a love of material and the qualities of their 'thing-ness', whether it's colour, oozing oil paint, balloons, cellophane or jesmonite. The artists however do not remain slavish to the visceral but also embody and appropriate particular areas of Paintings' history in their multidisciplinary practices. Artists will reveal a painterly investigation of the Modernist concern 'objecthood', Postmodern eclecticism and the Post-production - trend of continuous re-working. malereiexhibition.blogspot.co.uk Curated by Sarah Bowker-Jones, Natalie Gale and Sarah Kate Wilson

Workplace Gallery at New Contemporaries, Art Cologne 2012: Solo Presentation by Wolfgang Weileder

Image: Wolfgang Weileder Piazza San Marco, Venice. Slice 2118 (Parents take snaphots of children in Venetian masks while a group of Chinese men mimic T'ai Chi moves for their holiday photos), 2011 Archival ink on mat archival cotton paper, 151 x 240.6 cm, 59 1/2 x 94 3/4 in (WW0091) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery Workplace Gallery is pleased to present a solo stand of new work by Wolfgang Weileder Stand-no B-053 Hall 11.3 New Contemporaries Art Cologne 2012 18th - 22nd April 2012 http://www.artcologne.com Cologne, Germany for a preview of available works please email: info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Matt Stokes: "Contemporary Art Club" Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Image: Matt Stokes  Long After Tonight, 2005, Super 16mm film and audio transferred to DVD, 6 min 45 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery. Contemporary Art Club Exhibition Evening 29th March 2012 - 8pm - 3am Stedlijk Museum Amsterdam http://www.stedelijk.nl Trouw/De Verdieping and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam proudly present Contemporary Art Club, an evening packed with art, video installations, lectures and interviews—and of course, the most cutting-edge club sounds! We will present artworks by Rineke Dijkstra, Mark Leckey, Jeremy Shaw and Matt Stokes, a performance by artist Matthew Robert Lutz-Kinoy, speakers such as Dick Hebdige, and a club line-up including Joost van Bellen (Rauw, Amsterdam), Tom Trago (Rush Hour, TrouwAmsterdam) and Strange Boutique (No Rio, Amsterdam), with visuals by Arnout Hulskamp (TrouwAmsterdam).

Marcus Coates: "UNHEIMLICHE REISEN: ARCHIV TRIFFT GEGENWART" Zürich, Switzerland

Marcus Coates The Trip, (production still) 2010, Single Channel Video Duration: 34:28 min UMHIMLICHE REISEN: Archiv trifft Gegenwart Exhibition Preview 23rd March 2012 - 18:00 Exhibition and film nights 24th March - 21st April 2012 Art Space Zurich Topferstrasse 26 Zurich Opening Times 12:00 - 18:00 Curated by Nadja Baldini, Beat Huber with guest curator Catherine Hug Robert Jelinek exhibition African Chamber, 2005-06 / Annette Amberg Olympic stadium, 2011 / Pauline Bastard the travelers, 2011 / Marcel Duchamp Anemic Cinema, 1926 / Harun Farocki interface, 1995 / Katia Kameli Nouba, 2000 / Christian Philipp Müller 2562 km, 2005 / Clemens von Wedemeyer found footage ('The Fourth Wall') 2008-2010 / Roger Willemsen Leary's last trip: Roger Willemsen talking with timothy Leary, 1996 Action Friday 23 March 2012 from 18:00 Robert Jelinek presents passports from State of Sabotage (SoS) Film series Fri 23rd March 2012, 21:00 umheimliche traveling with Neil Beloufa, Luis Buñuel, Taus Makhacheva, Jean Rouch / Dominique Dubosc, Clemens von Wedemeyer sA 31st March 2012, 19:00 Moments of Disorder by Phil Collins, Katia Kameli, RothStauffenberg, Jean Rouch / Artist Talk: Katia Kameli in conversation with Nadja Baldini and Beat Huber sA 14th April 2012 19:00 Search of Truth with Djibril Diop Mambéty, Philip Mayrhofer and Christian Kobald, Jean Rouch / Artist Talk: Christian Kobald in conversation with Catherine Hug, at the CH-film premiere of L'ombre du prophète (The Shadow of the Prophet) sA, 21 April 2012, 18:00 / 20:00 Me the Otherness and Me with Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, Marcus Coates, Bouchra Khalili, Uriel Orlow, Jean Rouch Courtesy the Artist and Workplace Gallery

Darren Banks: "The Shape" Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland, UK

The Shape Lachlann Rattray Darren Banks Ben Robinson Preview 23rd March 7 - 9 24th March - 15th April, 2012 Generator Projects Dundee, Scotland, UK    Generator Projects are pleased to present The Shape; an exhibition of new work by Lachlann Rattray, Darren Banks & Ben Robinson, prompted by the compelling correlation between chance and determinism and its implementation in European horror cinema. Having considered the antinomical interrelationship between chance and determinism throughout Dario Argento's Tenebrae; Rattray, Banks & Robinson will present a string of recently developed multimedia installations insinuating the convoluted narrative and surreal ultra-violence indigenous to the Italian splatter movie. For this work, Lachlann Rattray will explore the use of deterministic and chaotic functions and how they can reflect and model real world systems. These pieces are drawn from the ideas of chance and random occurrences present in the narrative structures of many horror stories; the most innocuous of decisions made by a character can have a greatly exaggerated effect as the story progresses. Similarly, the algorithms used to create these pieces (The Lorenz Attractor and John Conway's Game of Life) utilize very simple starting points, which quickly balloon to form complex structures and patterns. By generating audio and printed feedback, the output of the equations cease to exist only within the programs and begin to have their own effect on the space. Darren Banks will present Bloody Dreams, Visions & Tourism; a multi- screen installation using found footage and analogue television sets. Each television will be given its own horror movie trope; through a process of selection, isolation, editing and looping, new objects are formed. Recurring horror motifs take on new meaning formally and thematically - horror starts to manifest itself structurally into the work as object and film become interwoven. Ben Robinson will unveil Death Paints Red Daubings - an amalgamation of filmic and sculptural elements that form a pastiche of the traditional Italian Giallo genre. Encouraging distancing effects over naturalistic acting, the film will follow the various conventions of Giallo cinema, while the installation focuses attention on the range of tricks and shock effects involved in creating the cinematic illusion. image: Darren Banks Jump the Shark, 2010 mixed media , incorporating Fallen Angel, Public Sculpture/Private Radar and Fade Away Dimensions Variable (DB0054) Courtesy the Artist and Workplace Gallery

Marcus Coates: "Dawn Chorus" Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales

Image: Marcus Coates  Dawn Chorus, 2007, 14 Channel HD video installation, 18 min 8 sec. Marcus Coates: Dawn Chorus Exhibition Opens 21st March 2012 - 18:00 21st March - 21st May 2012 Aberystwyth Arts Centre Aberystwyth University Wales Dawn Chorus, by Marcus Coates, uses unique digital methods to explore the relationship between birdsong and the human voice, drawing out similarities between the behaviour of birds and humans. Working with wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample, Coates placed 14 microphones around woodland to record birdsong early one morning in Northumberland. From this multi-track recording, each song was slowed down up to 16 times. Human participants copied this slowed down song, filmed in their everyday surroundings including an underground car-park, an osteopathic clinic and a bath-tub. The resulting video footage was then speeded up, returning the bird mimicry into its %u2018real' register Coates' installation is, he feels, quintessentially British, because of our attachment to wildlife. "It's outside the human lifestyle because we get up too late," he says. "I wanted to create something you could experience again and again." The artist will give an illustrated talk about his work, in the Arts Centre Cinema at 6pm on Wednesday 21 March. This will be followed by a viewing of Dawn Chorus in Gallery 1; an opportunity to meet the artist informally. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

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Workplace Gallery represents Jacob Dahlgren

Image: Jacob Dahlgren I, the world, things, life, 2007, Interactive dart board installation, 1517 x 396 cm. 52nd Venice Biennale. The Nordic Pavilion, Curated by René Block. Photo: Frame Workplace Gallery are delighted to announce that we now represent Jacob Dahlgren Jacob Dahlgren was born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. Exhibitions and projects include Wanås, Knisslinge, Sweden; Playing the city 3 Curated by Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Germany; Forward, Back, Right, Left, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle USA; Minimalism and Applied II Daimler Art Collection, Berlin Germany; Murals Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain; It's a Set-up, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York; Welfare Fare Well 52nd Venice Biennale, the Nordic pavilion, Venice Italy, curated by Rene Block; Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Jacob Dahlgren lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Jacob Dahlgren's first solo show at Workplace Gallery will open in September 2012. For more information regarding available works please email info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Darren Banks: "The Storage Room" Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

The Storage Room Opening 10th March 2012 20:00 Haifa Museum of Art Curated by Pil & Galla Kollective    Jem Noble John Russell Annabel Frearson PollyFibre Pil and Galia Kollectiv Paul Chaney and Kenna Hernly Darren Banks This exhibition attempt to create a dialogue between Israel's three main art centers: Tel Aviv, Jerualem and Haifa. Divided into two parts, historical and contemporary, the exhibition will be accompanied by events, meetings, discussion, musical performances and more. Storageroom features complete digitized exhibitions ready for download and  display at various venues by secondary curators. The Storageroom features complete exhibitions that are available for download, which underwent a process of digitalization so as to preserve the full quality after they have been downloaded in their respective formats (video, sound, photography, text etc.). After they have been downloaded, the exhibitions could be displayed in the venues available to the secondary curators (those who chose to download the exhibitions) and the conditions they have at their disposal. The same exhibition could be displayed simultaneously by agents of completely dissimilar nature and financial means: as the exhibition will be displayed differently, and convey cultural and curatorial perceptions that reflect not only the perception of the exhibition%u2019s curators, but also those of the secondary curators displaying it. Steps: 1. Exhibition digitized preserving the full quality of media. Exhibiting recommendations and instructions compiled. 2. Exhibition is uploaded by artist or curator, copyright delegated to Storageroom 3. Exhibition downloaded by secondary curator, undigitized and exhibited at available venue Courtesy the Artist and Workplace Gallery

Marcus Coates: "Follow the Voice" Canary Warf Screen, London, UK

Image: Marcus Coates Follow The Voice, 2009 Single Channel Video 10 min 45 sec    Follow the Voice 1st March - 27th May, 2012 Presented at Canary Warf Screen as part of 'The City in the City' programme In a playful echo of Darwin's publication 'The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals', 'Follow the Voice' establishes striking parallels between a range of familiar man-made sounds and an equally evocative chorus of animal cries and calls.  Chasing (and carefully recording) pockets of sound around the contemporary urban landscape of Shrewsbury, Marcus Coates uncovers and explores unexpected patterns of sonic kinship Isolating a number of sounds from the continuous hubbub of everyday background noise, including the 'beep' of the supermarket checkout, the siren of a police car and the noises of a school playground, Coates subjects the audio components of each video sequence to varying levels of manipulation (speeding them up or slowing them down to alter their pitch). As if tuning in to the right wavelength on this sonic sliding scale, he then adds to the mix by introducing field recordings of animals and birds whose songs and cries are uncannily identical to his newly-dislocated, disembodied sounds. Highlighting the rising-and-falling, one and two-note structure of primitive calls expressing recognition or alarm that are common across disparate species, 'Follow the Voice' captures the heightened feeling of interconnectedness at the heart of Darwin's view of the world, while reminding us of the spirit of curiosity and discovery that infuses Darwin's ideas. Alongside an exhibition presentation at the Unitarian Church in Darwin's birthplace of Shrewsbury, Coates' work also accompanied Opera North's latest production 'The Weatherman' throughout July 2009 at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury (as part of Shift Time Festival), The Sage in Gateshead and Howard Assembly Rooms in Leeds 'Follow the Voice' was co-commissioned with Shropshire Museums Services and funded by Arts Council England. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace Gallery

Joe Clark: "Marrakech Biennale" Marrakech, Morocco

Joe Clark The Blue of the Distance, 2012. Steel, bike components, pair of slides and projectors, tarpaulin, ice. Installation view Marrakech Bienniale Higher Atlas 29th February - 3rd June 2012 Theatre Royale http://www.higheratlas.org/about/ Curated by Carson Chan and Nadim Samman Alex Schweder La & Khadija Carroll La Alexander Ponomarev Andrew Ranville Christopher Mayo CocoRosie (Bianca Casady, Sierra Casady) Ethan Hayes-Chute Eva Grubinger Faouzi Laatiris Florian & Michael Quistrebert Gideon Lewis-Kraus Hadley Maxwell Hassan Darsi Joe Clark Jon Nash Juliana Cerqueira Leite Juergen Mayer H. Katarzyna Przezwańska Katia Kameli Leung Chi Wo Luca Pozzi Matthew Stone & Phoebe Collings-James Megumi Matsubara Pascale Marthine Tayou Roger Hiorns Sinta Werner Sophie Erlund Tue Greenfort Younes Baba-Ali In 2004 with the rise of global tensions, Vanessa Branson envisioned a cultural festival that would address social issues through the arts, using them as a vehicle for debate and discussion and to build bridges between diverse ideologies. Marrakech Biennale would become a celebration of creativity in a city that has been the focus of artistic exploration for centuries but with limited emphasis on contemporary art. Begining in 2005, as a gathering of arts enthusiasts who organized literary events and exhibitions. Marrakech Biennale has grown to become an internationally recognised biennale with a thriving visual arts, film and literature programme. The festival's role has evolved along with the climate of the times. With today's events in North Africa, the organization's goals could not be more pertinent for the cultural identity of the region. This festival aims to show the outside world that Morocco is an open society that encourages freedom of expression and debate, as well as sponsoring significant and lasting benefits for the area and its inhabitants, socially, economically and culturally. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace Gallery

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Workplace Gallery at The Armory Show 2012, Solo Presentation by Laura Lancaster

Image: Laura Lancaster Golum II, 2012, Oil on Linen, 230 x 180 cm (91 x 71 Inches) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery Workplace Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth of new painting by Laura Lancaster Booth 512 / Pier 94 The Armory Show 2012 Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street New York, USA 8th - 11th March 2012 http://www.thearmoryshow.com for a preview of available works please email: info@workplacegallery.co.uk

Sophie Lisa Beresford: "Shit Show" Malgras Naudet, Manchester, UK

Image: Sophie Lisa Beresford My Culture Is Beautiful, 2009, Single Channel Video 7 min 49 sec  SHIT SHOW An exhibition about exhibitions Preview 24th February 6 - 8 pm 25th February - 24th March 2012 Malgras|Naudet Manchester George Barber BAZ Sophie Lisa Bereford Helen Brown Noel Clueit Dave Evans Toby Huddlestone David Mackintosh Keith Maclsaac David Osbaldestone Rebecca Sitar Matthew Stock Bedwyr Williams Courtesy the Artist and Workplace Gallery

Laura Lancaster: "A Private Affair" Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK

A Private Affair: Personal Collections of Contemporary Art Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK 28th January - 5th May 2012 http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/current-exhibitions/475-a-private-affair-personal-collections-of-contemporary-art.html A Private Affair: Personal Collections of Contemporary Art  tells the personal stories behind private collections of contemporary art and includes work from emerging northern artists, to internationally recognised artists. The exhibition aims to explore the background behind individual collections; why do individuals collect contemporary art, what influences decisions about what to collect, how do individuals and their families live with the art, and do relationships with artworks change over time? A Private Affair has been curated in collaboration with Mark Doyle, Head of Collector Development, Contemporary Art Society North West, and will be opened by Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society. image: Laura Lancaster Untitled, 2008 Oil on Board 21 x 30 cm Private Collection