Hugo Canoilas - AV Festival 2016: Meanwhile, what about Socialism?

Hugo Canoilas WORKPLACE GATESHEAD www.workplacegallery.co.uk   Festival Preview: Fri 26 February, 7-10pm Festival Launch: Fri 26 February, 6-7pm, The Mining Institute   Dates: 27 February - 27 March 2016 Festival Opening Times: Tue - Sun 12-6pm You are invited to the preview of AV Festival 2016: Meanwhile, what about Socialism? at Workplace, Gateshead on Fri 26 February, 7-10pm. The preview opens simultaneously in nine venues across Newcastle and Gateshead.   This new installation by Hugo Canoilas creates a tension between the past and present, making it contemporary 'like a knife with two blades'. It brings together his ongoing concerns around social discrepancy with readings on capitalism and Marxism including George Orwell, Pierre Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Misery, Plato's Allegory of the Cave and more recently The Manifesto Against Labour by Group Krisis. Canoilas's paintings are acts of suspension and confrontation, layers of diagrammatic symbols, signs and texts between the abstract and the figurative.   Hugo Canoilas Lava-grotto 2016, Ink on linen, latex, pigment, mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery   Curated by AV Festival 2016: Meanwhile, what about Socialism? as part of the Festival group exhibition across nine venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.   The exhibition includes work by the following artists and archives: Thomas Spence (UK), Amber Films (UK), Jack Common/North East Film Archive (UK), Tim Brennan (UK), Hugo Canoilas (Portugal), Dan Perjovschi (Romania), Madhusudhanan (India), Pallavi Paul (India), Haim Sokol (Russia), R.E.P. (Ukraine), Claire Fontaine (France).   The Festival title comes from a quote in George Orwell's book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', which is the thematic framework for AV Festival 2016-2018. In 1936, Orwell spent two months living in the industrial North observing working-class life amidst growing social injustice, poverty and unemployment. The book is an analysis of English socialism, concluding that the basis of democratic socialism is equality and fairness.   Mirroring the book's structure, AV Festival 2016 is Part One, with artists situating themselves in relation to historic and contemporary political struggle. Presented in 14 venues the programme features 12 solo installations, 48 film screenings, nine artist talks and four performances.   For more information about the whole AV Festival programme please visit: www.avfestival.co.uk   Artist Talk Sat 27 February, 2.15-3pm Workplace, Gateshead FREE, no booking required Hugo Canoilas will discuss the interconnection of things within his work from political texts on Marxism to propaganda and the media.   Hugo Canoilas Picasso head 2016, Ink on linen, 160 x 130 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery   kindly supported by:

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'Object Relations' BALTIC 39, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Object Relations, Installation image at 36 Lime Street, Photo: Colin Davidson Object Relations BALTIC 39, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EW Wed 3-Sun 7 Feb Closing event: Sun 7 Feb, 3-5pm Object Relations is a series of conversations in the gallery, focused around an exhibition of work completed over the duration of the show. For 5 days, BALTIC 39 will become an informal studio setting into which artists Tanya Axford, Catherine Bertola, Cath Campbell, Jo Coupe and Jennifer Douglas bring a collection of recent, un-shown or in-progress works to collectively curate and install their show through a process of discussion, observation, shared dialogue and making. The gallery is open every day from 12-6pm (8pm on Thursdays). There will be a closing event on Sun 7 Feb, 3-5pm and the chance to see the final outcome of the exhibition.   http://www.baltic39.com/project-space/

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Catherine Bertola: 'FEAST' Special Collections Sir Kenneth Green Library, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

Image: Catherine Bertola, Round and round, 2016, Black and white silent digital film 1min Photography: Simon Warner, Courtesy the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK FEAST Issue 1 - Cutlery Special Collections Sir Kenneth Green Library, Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, UK Programme Introduction 3rd February 2016 6pm - 8pm The launch will include a screening of new film work by artist Daniel Fogarty, an audio work by Franziska Lantz and a reading by Dr. Nasser Hussain. FEAST is an online publication that explores our relationship with food as a social event, a marker of identity, a product of history and a commodity for trade. The launch edition takes the theme of Cutlery creatively interpreting and responding to the tools and utensils of eating with contributions from Edwina Ashton, Catherine Bertola, Rachel Colley, Dr. Paul Geary, Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon. Following the launch FEAST will be available to read online at www.feastjournal.co.uk In conjunction with the publication's online content FEAST's editors are curating a programme of satellite events. Working with Special Collections Library at Manchester Metropolitan University and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester, FEAST have developed a series of events throughout 2016 that invite artists, academics and writers to explore the publications overarching theme of Setting the Table.

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Last chance to see: DOT DOT DOT DASH in Gateshead and Richard Rigg in London

Image: DOT DOT DOT DASH Installation view, Workplace Gateshead Image: Richard Rigg Reoccurring Rose Garden Installation view, Workplace London   DOT DOT DOT DASH   Jennifer Douglas, Rachel Lancaster, Paul Merrick, Mike Pratt and Joel Kyack WORKPLACE GATESHEAD until 30th January 2016 Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment)   http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/80/installation_shots/   ...............................................   Reoccurring Rose Garden   Richard Rigg WORKPLACE LONDON until 29th January 2016 Thursday - Friday, 10am - 5pm (or by appointment)   http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/81/works/

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Laura Lancaster - New Art Gallery Walsall

Laura Lancaster, Montage XI, 2015,Oil and acrylic on linen (diptych), 280 x 250 cm,110 1/4 x 98 3/8 in (LL0690) Courtesy the artist and Workplace Gallery Laura Lancaster The New Art Gallery Walsall 29 January - 8 May 2016   The New Art Gallery Walsall Gallery Square, Walsall West Midlands, WS2 8LG www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk   Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm  Sundays 12noon - 4pm (closed Mondays and Bank Holidays)   Preview Thursday 28 January 2016, 6-8pm   Join us for the opening of our new exhibition. Friends, family and colleagues welcome.   Laura Lancaster is a painter who draws inspiration from forgotten and discarded photographs and home movies, found in flea markets, charity shops and through ebay. Once precious and significant to someone, they are now detached from their original contexts and instead, they become animated through Laura's luscious, gestural and expressive application of paint. These lost and dislocated souls, caught in the ambiguous space between figuration and abstraction, compel us to reflect on time, memory and loss.   This exhibition will bring together a range of works by the artist including a new series of diptychs which are drawn from the very first and last frames of found super 8mm home movies. With the inclusion of sprocket holes and marks on the film, the paintings are portraits of the medium of film as much as their subject matter. The juxtaposition of the first and last frames implies the passing of time through the lost narrative that bind these moments together.   Laura Lancaster was born in Hartlepool in 1979 and she lives and works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.     for further information on any of the works shown please contact: sales@workplacegallery.co.uk

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Workplace at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2016

Matt Stokes, Cantata Profana, 2010, Six-channel HD video and audio transferred to synced hard-drives, Duration 06:48 minutes, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK     Matt Stokes, Laura Lancaster   WORKPLACE at Art Los Angeles Contemporary    Booth D12   Art Los Angeles Contemporary Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, LA California 90405 https://artlosangelesfair.com   January 28 - 31, 2016   Thursday, January 28: Opening VIP Reception: 5 - 7 PM Public reception: 7 - 9 PM Friday, January 29: 11am - 7pm Saturday, January 30: 11am - 7pm Sunday, January 31: 11am - 6pm   For further information on the work exhibited please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk   Laura Lancaster, Untitled, 2013, Oil on Linen, 50 x 40 cm,19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

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Eric Bainbridge: 'Potholes' NGCA, Sunderland, UK

Image: Eric Bainbridge, Untitled, 2015, Pen on lined paper, 21 x 29.7 cm (EB0635) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Eric Bainbridge: 'Potholes' NGCA Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland, UK Exhibition: 30 January - 2 April 2016 Preview: 29 January 2016 18:00 - 20:00 The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) are pleased to announce 'Potholes', a solo exhibition of drawings by Eric Bainbridge. The show brings together a selection of Bainbridge's works on paper from 1981 to the present day. The exhibition will include preliminary sketches for potential sculptures, revealing the artist's studio processes. The drawings, on gridded and lined paper as well as office stationary, illuminate many aspects of Bainbridge's sculptural work, giving shape to his provisional ideas. Seen collectively, the drawings provide an insight into an artist tentatively working through things. Evidenced throughout Bainbridge's drawings are attempts to both engage and unsettle the sometimes macho and puritanical aspects of Modernist sculpture. By embracing the irregular, the absurd, and the cute as aesthetic strategies, the artist reinvigorates historical sculptural tropes with a wry humour. In characters such as 'Jimmy the Nail', a motif that Bainbridge has worked with since 1984, the artist conflates the formal tautology of his materials (the profile of a large nail) with a vernacular reference (the title invokes the famous Geordie singer and actor Jimmy Nail). The character pops up recursively throughout Bainbridge's drawings, and has become a form of emblem for the artist's practice. The character, like much of Bainbridge's work takes the form of a metaphorical pothole, disrupting the binaries between abstraction and anecdote, experimental formalism with a more biographical tone. Bainbridge has exhibited internationally since the early Eighties and his work has been included in many significant exhibitions across Europe, America and Asia. 'Potholes' precedes the opening of 'Baldock Pope Zahle', on the 18th March in the NGCA main gallery. Both exhibitions explore current sculptural practice in the UK by producing an intergenerational dialogue between a group of artists with shared formal and conceptual approaches. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art City Library and Arts Centre Fawcett Street Sunderland SR1 1RE T 0044 191 561 8487 www.ngca.co.uk E ngca@sunderland.gov.uk

Cath Campbell 'Canary yellow with royal blue' DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham, UK

When I'm not sleeping, Cath Campbell, 2016, HD video, 9:03 mins, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Cath Campbell Canary yellow with royal blue  DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, January 23rd - March 31st 2016 Preview: 6-8pm, Thursday January 21st 2016. For 'Canary yellow with royal blue' Cath Campbell presents a new collection of short films. 'When I'm not sleeping', 'Taking a deep breath that I don't let out' and 'To the valley' each follow the routes of a classic American road trip - and as such are heavy with romantic reference and cinematic imagery interrupted by strangely banal and absurd moments from the minutiae of the personal lives of the original authors. Deliberately lo-fi in both their process and aesthetic, the films are made by collaging together clips from amateur travel videos found on YouTube. The dialogue in each clip is translated by Google automatic captions, and the resulting subtitles are full of slight mis-translations that provide a disquieting and poetic quality to the narrative. The clips are stitched together to create short film-poems that refer to the idea of the 'stream of consciousness' - a literary device in which the writer attempts to remove rational thought, instead presenting the inner consciousness of the characters. Campbell's work encompasses drawing, photography, film, sculpture, installation and large-scale architectural interventions. With a particular interest in the meaning invested in an object or image when dislocated from its original surroundings and placed within a new context, Campbell appropriates, collects and collages found images and materials, usually sourced from the Internet. This information is then put through a process of manipulation, repetition and rearrangement and then is re-presented to question the relationship between reality, desire and personal experience. Cath Campbell was born in 1972 in Ilkeston, UK. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University. Recent exhibitions include: Everything we do connects the space Workplace Gallery, (Gateshead, UK) Fifty ways to leave your lover, Open Space, (Cologne, Germany), A foreign encounter, Gallery FOE 156 (Munich Germany), Mostyn Open 2013, Oriel Mostyn (Llandudno, Wales), Enter Slowly The Lab (San Fransisco, USA). Public and architectural commissions include Untitled (Trellis), Trinity Hall, (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK), 21 Arches instead of a gate, Waltham Forest Borough Council (London, UK) and Marathon, Yards Park (Washington DC, USA). Cath is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. She lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne. My mum was a beatnik / Canary yellow with royal blue, a series of public readings will be performed at Baltic 39, Newcastle, from February 9th - 15th 2016 Canary yellow with royal blue will tour to The Priestman Gallery, Sunderland University, May 2016, and York college Gallery, November 2016. DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5TU Opening Times: Wednesdays to Sundays all year 10.30am - 4.00pm, and 10.30am-4.00pm on Tuesdays during school holidays and half-terms and all Bank Holidays. This exhibition is supported by Arts Council England

Seasons Greetings from Workplace

Image: Hugo Canoilas, Visitors, 2015 Unprimed canvas, artificial wool and wood, 2 penguins 65 x 35 x 25 cm (each) (HC0084) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Seasons Greetings from all at Workplace Wishing you all the best for 2016 Seasonal opening times: Workplace Gateshead Closed from Saturday 19th December 2015 - Tuesday 5th January 2016 the current exhibition DOT DOT DOT DASH including work by: Jennifer Douglas, Joel Kyack, Rachel Lancaster, Paul Merrick and Mike Pratt contiues until 30th January 2016 Our 2016 programme opens in February with a solo exhibition of work by Hugo Canoilas, as part of AV Festival 2016 Workplace London  Please note the gallery will be closed 25th and 26th December 2015 and 1st and 2nd January 2016, and will reopen on the 7th January 2016 The current exhibition Richard Rigg, Reoccurring Rose Garden will continue until 30th January 2016 Workplace Gallery The Old Post Office 19 - 21 West Street Gateshead, NE8 1AD +44 (0)191 4772200 (open Tues - Saturday 11am - 5pm, and by appointment) Workplace London 61 Conduit Street Mayfair London, W1S 2GB  tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985 (open Friday - Saturday 10 am - 6pm, and by appointment) web: http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/ twitter: @_workplace_ facebook: @workplacegallery instagram: @workplacegallery

Workplace on Paper - final few days and new online store

Workplace on Paper Workplace London 61 Conduit Street Mayfair London, W1S 2GB     11am - 5pm Thursday 17th December 12pm - 6pm Friday 18th and Saturday 19th December 2015   Please join us again this week Thursday to Saturday, for the final few days of our special Christmas sale of limited editions and works on paper by Workplace Gallery artists.   You can also order and purchase any of the works online at http://www.workplaceonpaper.com/   Please note the gallery will be closed 25th and 26th December 2015 and 1st and 2nd January 2016, and will reopen on the 7th January 2016.   For information please contact: sales@workplacegallery.co.uk   Richard Rigg's exhibition Reoccurring Rose Garden will continue to be viewable through until 30th January 2016 Exhibition hours Friday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm (or by appointment) a review of the exhibition by Caroline Douglas, Director of Contemporary Art Society is available here.

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Workplace on Paper

Workplace on Paper Workplace London 61 Conduit Street Mayfair London, W1S 2GB   12pm - 6pm Friday 11th and Saturday 12th December 2015   Please join us on Friday and Saturday afternoon for a special sale of limited editions and works on paper by Workplace Gallery artists.  Mulled wine and mince pies will be served.   For information please contact: sales@workplacegallery.co.uk     Richard Rigg's exhibition Reoccurring Rose Garden will continue to be viewable through until 30th January 2016 Exhibition hours Friday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm (or by appointment) a review of the exhibition by Caroline Douglas, Director of Contemporary Art Society is available here.

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