WORKPLACE presents: 2 nights of live music in Gateshead this weekend

FRIDAY 11th August: A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening FREE ENTRY, BYOB, 7 - 11pm   SATURDAY 12th August: Louie Rice and Luciano Maggiore DUO, Pinnel, Rust Ruus Doors: 8:00 pm, £5, BYOB / Quiet Show   both events take place at WORKPLACE GATESHEAD http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/events/ A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening is a collaborative tour showcasing the work of four contemporary British artists working in the field of sound art. The artists have curated a collection of sculptural artworks that use sound as the primary medium, exploring the inherent materiality and physicality of sound through a range of media, working methods, and outcomes. The works utilise both conventional and unconventional methods of sound production; combining high-tech electronics (loudspeakers, computers, sensors, surface transducers) and customised sculptural elements (wood, rope, sheet metal, bioplastics, carbonated liquids, pyrotechnics) to demonstrate four distinct ways of working with sound in an artistic discipline.   Jordan Edge’s Acclimate is a temperature-reactive sound installation that uses industrial fans and loudspeakers to explore the physical and psychological effects of noise on the human body. Joseph Higgins’ Many Gods, Many Voices is an electro-acoustic composition and sound installation, using a bespoke sonic table to embody the ‘otherness’ of the human voice. Joshua Legallienne’s Action Without Action is a series of kinetic sculptures that produce acoustic sound without the use of loudspeakers, electronics, or conventional sources of energy. Charles Pender’s Maelström is an immersive multi-channel installation using surface transducers to propagate sound into suspended sheets of metal.   (some dates of the tour the artist Guoda Dirzyte will also perform)  Guoda Dirzyte installation works explore kinetics, Dadaism, (self)destruction creating homemade instruments and sound sculptures from junk and found objects. Her main interests are in African and Asian cultures, especially Japanese life aesthetics and their relation to sound/music.   All four artists currently live and work in Brighton, UK. This event has been produced or WORKPLACE by Rachel Lancaster. Louie Rice and Luciano Maggiore DUO, Pinnel, Rust Ruus DUO performing at Cafe OTO Project Space, London. Photo: Elisa Fontana Louie Rice and Luciano Maggiore DUO Luciano Maggiore works in the field of electroacoustic music with a strong interest in the mechanisms of sound diffusion, using carefully placed speakers, analogue and digital devices (walkmans, CD players, tape recorders) as his principal instruments. ​Louie Rice specialises in electronic and acoustic systems;  utilising the physicality of the medium, signal chain and spatial context to create disruptive audio, performance and installation.  He is one third of VA AA LR who recently threatened a trapped TUSK audience with their sinister marching speakers. Tonight Louie and Luciano play as a duo hepping the white cube with their lowercase ear-bristlers.   Pinnel Pinnel is the electronic-alias of Lyndsay Duncanson film-maker, sound-breaker and Noize Choir co-creator.   By using voice and simple electronics Pinnel creates lo-fi sonic shorts full of deep-breath wonder.  Like flicker books for the blind, full of dizzying movement, with just a hint of magic.   Rust Ruus The mysterious Rust Ruus may be new in town but hefts serious chops and dues paid (in full).  Acoustic and/or electric connections are Rust’s game and plugging into the cosmic mainframe new patterns of ‘fuh’ emerge from his long fingers, toes and throat.   Cover of 33/45 by Louie Rice on Organised Music From Thesseloniki (Artwork by Sadie Hough)   DUO performing at Cafe OTO Project Space, London. Photo: Elisa Fontana

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3 - PHASE ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

­Artists selected for 3-Phase: a unique development initiative Larry Achiampong/ Mark Essen/ Nicola Singh Nicola Singh and Harriet Plewis 'they go into a little room and they bang a little drum' BALTIC 39, Newcastle (2017). Photo Credit: Fiona Larkin Artists Larry Achiampong, Mark Essen and Nicola Singh have been selected for the second edition of 3-Phase, a unique development initiative led by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, through its gallery programme Jerwood Visual Arts; Eastside Projects, Birmingham and WORKPLACE, Gateshead. The selected artists will produce and present new artwork as it develops through three exhibition moments, taking the form of a group exhibition at Jerwood Visual Arts (8 November – 10 December 2017) and WORKPLACE (28 April – 9 June 2018) along with a solo show for each artist at Eastside Projects (Autumn 2018). The exhibition offers a supported opportunity and critical platform for the artists to engage with 3 individual organisations over an extended period of 18 months to experiment and make ambitious and compelling ideas a reality.   The selected artists, each at pivotal moments in their career, have demonstrated a commitment to challenging and pushing the boundaries of traditional modes of exhibition making. Inherent to their respective proposals is a strong research-base and pertinent social narratives, which surface through sculpture, performance and technology.     Larry Achiampong will present Relic Traveller - a new multi-disciplinary project manifesting in performance, audio, moving image and prose. Taking place across various landscapes and locations, the piece builds upon a postcolonial perspective informed by technology, agency and the body, and narratives of migration.   Mark Essen will present a new body of work exploring values of our archaic economy and offering suggestions of an alternative structure – specifically degrowth – a political, economic and social movement based on ecological economics. By incorporating hydroponics into the work, the artist communicates how urban agriculture may be used as a form of resilience, redressing the balance with nature.    Nicola Singh will continue to find ways of writing via performance and through experiments in pedagogy. She is interested in the organisation of language around the body and in relation to the voice. Her work will take the form of a multifaceted performance, including live readings, experimental music and dialogue with other artists. She will also produce an installation and series of performative objects for her performance, feeling through ideas around exhibiting performance in the context of the gallery.   3-Phase Selection & History   The selection was made by an independent panel comprising:  Kelly Best, Artist and 2015 3-Phase exhibitor; Paul Moss, Co-Director, WORKPLACE; Gavin Wade, Director, Eastside Projects and Sarah Williams, Head of Programme, Jerwood Visual Arts. Artists were selected based on the quality and potential of their work and the developmental impact the opportunity is likely to have upon their practice.   3-Phase was first launched in 2015 through the Jerwood Encounters series, working with artists Kelly Best and Georgie Grace. It is an innovative model, which aims to identify artistic potential from across the Midlands, the North, and the rest of the UK, allowing for a UK wide peer group to form. This unique collaboration highlights the benefits of artists and organisations working together as part of a national dialogue; constructing a space of encounter between the thinking of selected artists and supporting arts organisations around the developing bodies of work.   For further details about the Jerwood Visual Arts programme, please visit: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org or follow Jerwood Visual Arts on Twitter and Instagram: @JerwoodJVA.   Exhibition Information:   Title:                             3-Phase: Larry Achiampong/ Mark Essen/ Nicola Singh Dates:                          8 November – 10 December 2017 Address:                      Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN Opening Times:            Mon-Fri from 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun from 10am-3pm Admission:                   Free Nearest Tube:              Southwark, London Bridge or Borough Website:                      www.jerwoodvisualarts.org Twitter/Instagram:       @JerwoodJVA #3Phase   For all enquiries please contact project managers, Parker Harris: Email: info@parkerharris.co.uk Tel: 01372 462190   Twitter/Instagram: #3Phase @JerwoodJVA   Artist biographies   Larry Achiampong is a London based, British-Ghanian artist. He is influenced by connections between the digital age and communal and personal histories. He completed his BA in Mixed Media Fine Art University of Westminster in 2005, followed by an MA in Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. He has since exhibited and performed at venues nationally and internationally including Tate Modern, the British Film Institute, Somerset House, The British Library, Iniva, The Showroom, Fabrica, Dolph Projects, Modern Art Oxford, The Logan Centre (Chicago, USA), ICI/Savvy Contemporary (Berlin, Germany) and The Photography Centre (Lectore, France). www.larryachiampong.co.uk   Mark Essen is a Birmingham based artist. He graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Birmingham City University (2007) before completing his MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2012). He has exhibited at Cass Sculpture Park, Lychee One Gallery, Tate St Ives, Studio Leigh and curated shows at Division of Labour. He has been invited onto residency programmes led by a range arts organisations including Wysing Arts Centre, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Doremifasolasido at Florence Art Centre, South London Infinity Projects. In 2017, he will open Modern Clay, Birmingham – a socially engaged ceramics studio aiming to remove the boundaries between fine and applied arts and crafts. www.markessen.org   Nicola Singh is an artist based in Newcastle. Her practice is rooted in performance and is made in response to contexts of location and place, encounter and dialogue, feelings and chance. Recent projects include a solo show at BALTIC 39, Newcastle and a performance for LUX and LUX Scotland at Glasgow Film Theatre. Nicola has recently completed a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Northumbria University. www.nicolasingh.co.uk   Project Credit   3-Phase is a partnership between Jerwood Charitable Foundation, WORKPLACE and Eastside Projects.   3-Phase is a new model for working in partnership to support the development of early career artist’s work over a sustained period of time. The three artists will be selected to develop a series of new work with the curatorial assistance of each organisation, which will tour to each partner location. The project was first trialled in 2015 through the Jerwood Encounters series, working with artists Kelly Best and Georgie Grace. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/exhibitions/jerwood-encounters-3-phase/   Jerwood Visual Arts is a national programme supporting visual arts practice, through which Jerwood Charitable Foundation works with early career artists to commission and present new work. Artist opportunities run throughout the year alongside a programme of related exhibitions, events and commissioned writing, taking place online, in London and across the UK. We advocate for the best possible conditions for the making of art by providing well-resourced opportunities for artists, supported by our staff team and established artists, writers, critics and curators who have a significant national or international profile. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org   Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. The aim of its funding is to allow artists and arts organisations to thrive; to continue to develop their skills, imagination and creativity with integrity. It works across art forms, from dance and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts. www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org   WORKPLACE is a contemporary art gallery founded in Gateshead in the North of England in 2002, and with a gallery in Mayfair, London since 2013. Originally situated far from any of the UK’s major cultural centres, the Gallery has worked intensely over the past decade to access the international artworld. With the objective of working with artists to achieve critical acclaim, WORKPLACE has become an important and integral part of the UK’s cultural landscape through a respected programme of exhibitions, taking part in the leading international art fairs, and long-term partnerships with highly esteemed international artists and galleries. Growing out of an artist-led Northern English art scene, WORKPLACE aims to combine a progressive, countercultural spirit with an independent D.I.Y. attitude, connecting to a new generation of artists, collectors and curators worldwide. WORKPLACE GATESHEAD opened in 2005 at 34 Ellison Street, Gateshead – part of Trinity Square Shopping Centre particularly noted for its iconic Brutalist car park which featured as a key location in the 1971 cult british gangster film ‘Get Carter’ starring Michael Caine. Since the complex was demolished in 2008, WORKPLACE Gateshead has been located at The Old Post Office in Gateshead – a 19th Century Grade 2 listed building built upon the site of the important 18th century British artist, engraver, and naturalist Thomas Bewick’s studio and residence. www.workplacegallery.co.uk   Eastside Projects makes art public. It is an artist-run multiverse, commissioning, producing and presenting experimental art practices and demonstrating ways in which art may be useful as part of society. Eastside Projects provides vital infrastructure, supports best practice and works to expand the role of the artist-run space. Alongside imagining, testing and modeling a free public gallery, it is increasingly engaged in an expanded range of public activities – it devises public art strategies, serve as commissioning agents, produce national public art programmes and create structures to support artists locally, nationally and internationally. It does not make art for the public, it is the public that makes art. Eastside Projects is an artist-run space as public gallery, a Not for Profit Company Limited by Guarantee Reg: 6402007 and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, in partnership with Birmingham City University. Established in 2008. eastsideprojects.org

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Mayfair Art Weekend / Artist's talk - WORKPLACE LONDON

Jo Coupe Posy, 2017, cutout and rearranged botanical prints from Wayside and Woodland Blossoms (vol 2) by Edward Step, 1933, archival tape, dissection pins, 64 x 42 x 3 cm, 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/8 in (JCP0103) Courtesy the artist and WORKPLACE, UK Jo Coupe - Artist's talk and Mayfair Art Weekend WORKPLACE London are delighted to take part in Mayfair Art Weekend  Mayfair Art Weekend opening hours:  Saturday 1st July - 10am - 6pm Sunday 2nd July - 11am - 5pm Jo Coupe - Artists talk: Saturday 1st July 11.30 am  Jo Coupe will be giving a talk and tour of her exhibition All That Fall  all welcome  RSVP at rsvp@workplacegallery.co.uk Jo Coupe All That Fall / Joseph Beuys 'Wirtschaftswert' 2017, WORKPLACE London, Courtesy the artist and WORKPLACE, UK Jo Coupe   All That Fall and Joseph Beuys 'Wirtschaftswert'    19 May – 8 July 2017   WORKPLACE LONDON 61 Conduit Street, Mayfair London, W1S 2GB Thursdays to Saturdays, 10 – 6pm     WORKPLACE is pleased to announce All That Fall, the first solo exhibition of Jo Coupe at Workplace London. Bringing together Jo Coupe’s diverse sculptural practice in a wide variety of materials and media, All That Fall explores Coupe’s ongoing interest in the relationship between science and magic.        Informed by investigations into the Natural Sciences, religion, and ritualistic belief systems such as Louisiana Voodoo, Coupe’s interest in the paranormal has led to periods of research into diverse environments ranging from the industrial to the historical and the domestic. As such, her work shifts towards an analysis of objects and materials, and of the physical, cultural and metaphorical forces at play that pervade the meanings we commonly ascribe to them. Her work takes on a political significance by conflating opposing positions of hard science with folk ritual and the stereotypically gendered environments of heavy industry and the home. Utilising the homespun experimental methodologies of the amateur scientist to recreate supernatural manifestations and transient natural phenomena, Coupe employs her holistic knowledge of the natural world to create sculpture that finds both poetic resonance and a precarious instability in its material form or method of becoming.  Showing alongside Jo Coupe will be a selection of unique works from Joseph Beuys 'Wirtschaftswert'  (Economic Values) series. Jo Coupe Solid Air, 2017, Stepladders, Coloured Nylon String, Magnetic Field, Rare Earth Magnets, Dimensions Variable   Solid Air is a large-scale installation made from ladders, string and magnets.  Activating the space between the gallery wall and ordinary domestic objects, Coupe engages our childlike fascination with magnetism. Anchored to a configuration of stepladders, metal discs tied to the opposite end of the string are pulled magically toward the wall of the gallery, causing them to float weightlessly in attraction. The architectural qualities of the stepladders are enhanced by the linear qualities of the taut string, which combine to map a complex and colourfully trembling matrix between a powerfully charged field beyond the wall, and the commonplace and functional resting on the floor. Jo Coupe Bleed Now, 2012, Botanical prints, archival tape, dissection pins, 53 x 68 x 4 cm, Courtesy of the artist and WORKPLACE, UK Four tiny bronze sculptures - a shrew, a baby blackbird, a wren and a rat's head - lie dead on slabs of engineering steel, low on the gallery floor. Their blunt presence countered by the delicate intricacies of their surface. Anatomical details such as hair, ribs and even veins under the skin are visible, pulling the viewer down into their Lilliputian world. This on-going series of found dead animals have been collected and stored by Coupe in their family freezer amongst the ice cream and other plats-de-demain. Cast at home using jewellery-casting techniques Coupe creates miniature monuments that tease our fascination with death through repulsion and curiosity.     Jo Coupe Slab (Blackbird), 2017, Bronze engineering steel, 6 x 10 x 10 cm (JCP0098)   Jo Coupe was born in 1975 in Stoke, UK. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and at Goldsmiths College, London. Previous exhibitions include: In and Out of Sight, UH Gallery, Hertfordshire; Easy does it Supercollider, Blackpool; Pertaining to Things Natural... Chelsea Physic Garden, London; An Archaeology 176, London; Fade Away And Radiate, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Tatton Park Biennial, Give and Take at Firstsite, Colchester, You Shall Know Our Velocity at BALTIC, Gateshead. She lives and works in Gateshead, UK.   Jo Coupe Rarefied (Phalaenopsis lobii), 2008, 18ct gold, 3 x 12 x 9 cm, Courtesy the artist and WORKPLACE, UK To view works on WORKPLACE website please click here  To view works on Artsy please click here For further information about the exhibition please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk   Jo Coupe All That Fall / Joseph Beuys 'Wirtschaftswert' 2017, WORKPLACE London, Courtesy the artist and WORKPLACE, UK   MAYFAIR ART WEEKEND FREE PUBLIC EVENT   Artists tour: 1 July 2017 11.30 am - 12.30 pm, all welcome.    Jo Coupe will give an informal tour of the exhibition as part of Mayfair Art Weekend    Jo Coupe Rarefied (Phalaenopsis lobii), 2008 / Joseph Beuys Wirtschaftswert, 1980. Courtesy the artist and WORKPLACE, UK

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