Matt Stokes

Workplace is pleased to present This Liberty, Matt Stokes’ fourth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition will feature two recent films by the artist originally commissioned by Museums Northumberland for Hexham Old Gaol, England’s oldest purpose-built prison, and will be the first time that they have been shown outside of this context.

In the spirit of solidarity between different art forms, Workplace is delighted to announce Come Together, an online exhibition featuring works by eleven artists in support of the Music Venue Trust.

Dead Sea Deaf Sea is an exhibition of new film, sculpture and photography by Matt Stokes predominantly derived from his research into HMS Standard, an experimental World War II psychiatric rehabilitation camp established by the Royal Navy to find an answer to rising mental illness and insubordination in its ranks....

Matt Stokes’ new Matt’s Gallery commission Madman in a Lifeboat is an immersive, sculptural video installation, built around the pilot episode of a faux situational comedy series. The exhibition is based on the surreal imaginings of 74-year-old East Londoner, Charlie Seber, and investigates his life’s work developing a movement called...

Matt’s Gallery and Dilston Grove present the second in a new series of co-productions Cantata Profana by Matt Stokes. The exhibition runs parallel with a new commission of work at Matt’s Gallery, Madman in a Lifeboat (1 April–24 May 2015). The presentation of both works across east and south London...

Matt Stokes’ recent practice focuses on the investigation of music subcultures. Working with musicians, writers, actors, composers and local community figures, Stokes looks to the social position and power that marginal groups have to influence a broader demographic. Often drawing attention to the spontaneous creativity that exists within counter-cultures and...