Simeon Barclay

Featuring works by Abigail Hampsey, Amy Bravo, Annika Ström, Aubrey Levinthal, Damien Meade, Hazel Brill, Iriée Zamblé, Jacob Dahlgreen, James Prapaithong, Jill McKnight, Joel Kyack, Katinka Lampe, Laura Lancaster, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Marcus Coates, Matt Stokes, Miko Veldkamp, Olivia Jia, Rachel Lancaster, Simeon Barclay

Workplace is pleased to present Transmission, a group exhibition of new and recent work by gallery artists Simeon Barclay, Marcus Coates, Jennifer Douglas, Louise Giovanelli and Laura Lancaster.

This exhibition is presented online inside a detailed virtual rendering of our first gallery space: Workplace, 34 Ellison Street, Gateshead, which opened in 2005 within the British Brutalist masterpiece Trinity Court designed by Rodney Gordon for Owen Luder Partnerships, and which was demolished in 2009. For this exhibition we have relocated the gallery to the coast - in both a nod to the sublime (an echo of Gordon’s vast, elemental architecture) and because the original street outside the gallery was destroyed.

In his first institutional solo exhibition in the North West, Simeon Barclay presents a new body of work informed by research into dance. From the visual spectacle of contemporary dance theatre to the communal experience of the nigh club dance floor, the exhibition Bus2move combines costume, film and video, photography, lighting and sound.

In his first institutional solo exhibition in the North East of England, Simeon Barclay presents a new body of work informed by research into dance. From the visual spectacle of contemporary dance theatre to the communal experience of the night club dance floor, the exhibition Bus2move combines costume, film and video, photography, lighting and sound. Barclay's interest in dance and its many facets centres on the construction of masculinity, with particular focus on the way popular perceptions and stereotypes become defined, contested and encoded upon the male body.

The Holden Gallery is delighted to present Simeon Barclay’s first solo exhibition in Manchester. Barclay – whose work operates at the intersection of contemporary art, fashion, music and popular culture – will present a survey of existing work alongside new work which will include a response to the historic collections at Manchester School of Art.

Barclay uses references from popular culture from his time growing up in the north of England to explore masculine and feminine roles and the expectations of society. Images of footballers, actresses and objects such as a car illustrate how we perform gender. Barclay blurs fiction and reality by adapting a scene from the television drama Boys from the Blackstuff, which refers to class, masculinity and unemployment in 1980s Britain, and collaged images of characters from Viz comic’s The Fat Slags and gymnast Haruhiro Yamashita.

For his first solo exhibition in London, Leeds-based multidisciplinary artist Simeon Barclay presents They Don’t Like It Up ‘Em. Drawing on a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, video and printmaking, these materials will be semiotically charged with a range of diverse and symbolically rich references Barclay has culled...

Poetic Dissonance is an exhibition by Simeon Barclay, which represents the culmination of his tenure as Artist in Residence 2018/2019 at Girton College, University of Cambridge.