Exhibitions

TRANSMISSION

17 Jul - 5 Sep 2020 Gateshead 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. Read more

Mike Pratt

WORKPLACE, Gateshead 18 Jan - 13 Mar 2020 Gateshead Workplace is excited to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Mike Pratt. Based upon documentation of a rug made by the Dada artist Hans Arp (1886 - 1966), these works have been silk-screen printed in collaboration with the artist's father, a printmaker, before being painted over by Pratt.... Read more

Jennifer Douglas

WORKPLACE, Gateshead 23 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 Gateshead WORKPLACE are pleased to present a new body of paintings by Jennifer Douglas in the first floor gallery at The Old Posthouse, Gateshead. Jennifer Douglas uses proletarian materials such as industrial floor paint, layered with elemental materials creating serene monochromatic canvases which she then works on ‘blind’ - repeatedly puncturing and scratching the surface to create works that are both violent and painterly. Read more

Mike Pratt: Love Songs Dedicated to the Back of Somebody's Head

30 Apr - 28 May 2016 Gateshead WORKPLACE is pleased to announce Love Songs Dedicated to the Back of Somebody’s Head - the second solo exhibition of Mike Pratt at Workplace Gateshead. Read more

Hugo Canoilas: 'MEANWHILE, WHAT ABOUT SOCIALISM?' AV Festival 2016

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 27 Feb - 27 Mar 2016 Gateshead 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... Read more

DOT DOT DOT DASH

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 21 Nov 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 Gateshead A well-known Morse code rhythm from the Second World War period derives from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the opening phrase of which was regularly played at the beginning of BBC broadcasts. The timing of the notes corresponds to the Morse for 'V'; di-di-di-dah and stood for 'V for Victory' (as well... Read more

Laura Lancaster: Ellipsis

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 19 Sep - 31 Oct 2015 Gateshead WORKPLACE is delighted to present Ellipsis, Laura Lancaster’s 4th solo exhibition at our Gateshead gallery. Lancaster’s recent paintings are based upon her collection of found anonymous home movies. The incorporation of moving image into her work marks a significant departure for Lancaster. Her new paintings explore the cinematic and the... Read more

Jacob Dahlgren: Kung Fu Panda

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 25 Apr - 23 May 2015 Gateshead Kung Fu Panda is a new video work by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren in which he films the reflected ambient light on an adjacent white wall at home, whilst his children are watching the eponymous animated feature film. Filmed in High Definition from a fixed camera position and projected as... Read more

Joel Kyack: The Very First Day

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 25 Apr - 11 Jul 2015 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is proud to present the first UK solo exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Joel Kyack. For this exhibition Kyack will present a new body of sculpture and painting shown here for the first time. Joel Kyack brings together a combination of unlikely components purchased from hardware stores,... Read more

Marcus Coates

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 7 Mar - 18 Apr 2015 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is delighted to present our fourth solo exhibition at our gallery in Gateshead of new work by Marcus Coates. For this exhibition, Coates presents three new works that set out the scope of a wider enquiry. Central to this is the re-animation of our intersubjectivity with natural... Read more

EXHIBITION curated by Circa Projects

CIRCA X WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 10 Jan - 21 Feb 2015 Gateshead ‘Exhibition’ is a group show curated by CIRCA Projects, developed for and in response to Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. Featuring works by Matthew Crawley, Henry Coombes, Tim Etchells, Keith Farquhar, Josephine Flynn, Susie Green, Mike Leggett (with Ian Breakwell and John Hilliard) and Cara Tolmie. ‘Exhibition’ carries an attitude which is... Read more

Richard Rigg: After Noon Distance

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 1 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is delighted to present After Noon Distance our second exhibition of new work by Richard Rigg. Richard Rigg’s sculptures reproduce and manipulate everyday objects, transforming them into reflexive propositions and theoretical paradoxes. Employing culturally resonant objects that signify the foundations of our civilization through drawing upon the histories... Read more

Cath Campbell: Everything we do corrects the space

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 1 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is delighted to present Everything we do corrects the space our second solo exhibition of new work by Cath Campbell. Two short films -for quartetsand for the yellow smokecontinue an on goingprocess of appropriating, manipulating and deconstructing found images and documentary travel photography collected from publications and the... Read more

Eric Bainbridge

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 20 Sep - 25 Oct 2014 Gateshead Eric Bainbridge was born in Consett, County Durham, UK in 1955. He completed a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1981. Frequently cited as one of the most influential British artists working in contemporary sculpture Bainbridge has exhibited in important group exhibitions throughout his career... Read more

Sophie Lisa Beresford

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 20 Sep - 25 Oct 2014 Gateshead Read more

Jo Coupe: The Ashes of other Elements

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 7 Jun - 19 Jul 2014 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is delighted to present our second exhibition of new work by Jo Coupe. After the rain is an installation that presents an audio recording made by Coupe alongside the means of its making. Recorded in Chopwell Woods in West Gateshead, After the rain documents the sounds emitted from... Read more

Cecilia Stenbom: Everyday Collateral

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 7 Jun - 19 Jul 2014 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is delighted to present Everyday Collateral our second solo exhibition by Swedish artist Cecilia Stenbom. Everyday Collateral brings together a series of recent works that explore anxiety, behaviour and the quest for control in public space. Working across media including Film, Painting, and Print Stenbom's work examines individual... Read more

Tanya Axford

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 29 Mar - 17 May 2014 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of our first solo exhibition by Tanya Axford. Tanya Axford’s recent works are derived from her interest in the intersections between Performance, Sculpture and Video. In two new installation works, Axford explores the intangible outcomes of material properties under specific temporal and... Read more

Paul Merrick

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 29 Mar - 17 May 2014 Gateshead Paul Merrick combines painting with sculpture and the made with the ready-made. Investigating colour, materiality, and architectural and spatial arrangement in relationship to the history of Painting, Merrick's recent work is the result of a sustained interrogation of painting through the found object. In a new body of work Merrick... Read more

Wolfgang Weileder: Morimaru

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 18 Jan - 15 Mar 2014 Gateshead Workplace Gallery are delighted to announce the opening of Morimaru a solo exhibition of new photographic work by Wolfgang Weileder. Taking its title from the Celtic name for the North Sea, Morimaru presents an installation of large-scale images taken at specific coastal locations in North East England. Each work is... Read more

Marcus Coates: Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant and Castle

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 18 Jan - 15 Mar 2014 Gateshead Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle explores the major transitions that have been taking place in the South London neighbourhood. In response to the Council's formal vision and master plan for redevelopment, Coates involves residents from the soon to be demolished Heygate Estate, council planners and developers to... Read more

Jennifer Douglas

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 23 Nov 2013 - 11 Jan 2014 Gateshead In her seminal 1977 essay ‘Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America’ Rosalind Krauss signals a shift away from music as the primary influence on abstract painting through the 20th Century, towards photography as a logical and structural model for abstraction via its indexical relation to the world. Citing... Read more

Rachel Lancaster

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 23 Nov 2013 - 11 Jan 2014 Gateshead Rachel Lancaster's recent works are derived from her interest in the intersections between Music, Film, and Photography, their respective transitions from analogue to digital, and the potential for imagery to communicate beyond the immediate through the way they are constructed and received. Voicings is an HD video and audio work... Read more

Darren Banks: Evermore

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 14 Sep - 19 Oct 2013 Gateshead Read more

Catherine Bertola: Sad Bones

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 14 Sep - 19 Oct 2013 Gateshead Sad Bones is a collection of interventions into photographs of interiors taken directly from the archives of Country Life Magazine of buildings that no longer exist. In each case Bertola has carefully set the image alight allowing the flames to momentarily animate the space as the paper smoulders, leaving behind... Read more

space/socialspace

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 29 Jun - 3 Aug 2013 Gateshead Workplace Gallery are pleased to present space/socialspace a group exhibition of new work by Eric Bainbridge, Ralf Brög, Lothar Götz and James Hutchinson. Conceived initially as a collaborative project between four artists currently working together within the Fine Art department at Sunderland University space/socialspace provides an overarching framework for research... Read more

Be Like Water

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 18 May - 22 Jun 2013 Gateshead Workplace presents be like water, a group exhibition looking at aspects of destruction as artistic formula, the erroneous or delusive nature of a fading memory, and discourses surrounding the invented and imagined. be like water takes the work of six artists who employ repetition, attrition, sublimation and intersubjectivity in the... Read more

Hugo Canoilas: Magma

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 30 Mar - 4 May 2013 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is pleased to present Magma a solo exhibition or new and recent works by Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas. With its foundations in painting, Canoilas' work is often collaborative and incorporates video, sound, sculpture and performance as well as research-based projects. Over the last decade painting has led him... Read more

Laura Lancaster: Conversations Behind Glass

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 2 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 Gateshead Read more

Marcus Coates: 185x49x26cm

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 1 Dec 2012 - 19 Jan 2013 Gateshead Coates' new installation All the Grey Animals, 2012 comprises of over 80 cuboid forms each representing an animal that has been defined by its greyness. From a sixteen foot newborn Grey Whale to a one inch Grey Dagger Moth this amassed grouping of animals as objects is a brutal rendering... Read more

Jacob Dahlgren: colour-time-structure

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2012 Gateshead Jacob Dahlgren’s work is concerned with a dialogue between the authoritative singularity of pure formal abstraction and its position within a variable, complex and social shared culture. Dahlgren’s repetitious collections of ubiquitous and ordinary objects, often domestic, industrially manufactured (and frequently, knowingly Scandinavian); stand in their gestalt form as proxy... Read more

Joe Clark: Screentest (For a Hero Shot)

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 23 Jun - 28 Jul 2012 Gateshead 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... Read more

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 12 May - 16 Jun 2012 Gateshead Workplace Gallery are pleased to present Out of Sight, Out of Mind a group exhibition bringing together diverse works by eleven artists working internationally. The exhibition explores themes that draw upon notions of the Body - either directly as site, material, and subject - or indirectly as starting point for... Read more

Cath Campbell: Ideal Mexico

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 11 Feb - 17 Mar 2012 Gateshead Campbell’s new work focuses on the world portrayed and proposed by the proliferation of ubiquitous upmarket lifestyle and travel guides. Marketed as “a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about the world’s most intoxicating cities” Campbell’s work is caught between a guarded sense of dismay over... Read more

Paul Merrick

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2011 Gateshead Paul Merrick combines painting with sculpture, and the made with the ready-made. Investigating colour, form, and architectural and spatial arrangement in relationship to Painting as a subject and discipline in and of itself; Merrick's new work is the result of a sustained interrogation of painting and process in relation to... Read more

Double, Double

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 1 Oct - 5 Nov 2011 Gateshead Eric Bainbridge Noel Clueit Marcus Coates Jo Coupe Jacob Dahlgren Rachel Foulion Dean Hughes Rachel Lancaster Eftihis Patsourakis Read more

Matt Stokes

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 25 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 Gateshead 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... Read more

Sophie Lisa Beresford

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 7 May - 11 Jun 2011 Gateshead The work of Sophie Lisa Beresford addresses the order and status of 'things' and situations and beyond that our held assumptions about the way in which we live and our cultural stereotypes. Through a polygenetic assimilation of established and global cultures as distinct and diverse as Hinduism, and Makina Techno... Read more

Mike Pratt: Good Mourning Bell

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 15 Jan - 12 Feb 2011 Gateshead Pratt's work confronts the established conventions of painting, through an immediate and unashamedly direct indulgence in painting as an activity in its own right, combined with an ethically questionable position of borrowing, remaking and 'wrongful' appropriation. Authenticity, style and the cycle of assimilation that exists both within contemporary art and... Read more

Cecilia Stenbom: Homeland Security

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2010 Gateshead Bringing together works from across media including performance to video, painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing, Homeland Security explores Stenbom's investigation into her conviction that in the consumer driven culture of a 21st century over-saturated with information, fear has become a more powerful motivating factor than sex. Appropriation and re-enactment are... Read more

Laura Lancaster: You are a Movement

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 16 Oct - 13 Nov 2010 Gateshead This exhibition of Lancaster's new work consists of a series of large-scale oil paintings alongside collage, works on paper, and film installation. Located firmly within a tradition of figurative painting and portraiture Lancaster’s subject matter consists of images sourced from an archive of found anonymous photographs and family albums bought... Read more

Richard Rigg: Holography

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 11 Sep - 9 Oct 2010 Gateshead Richard Rigg’s sculptures reproduce and manipulate everyday objects, transforming them into reflexive propositions and theoretical paradoxes. Employing culturally resonant objects that signify the foundations of our civilization through drawing upon the histories of science, mathematics and literature, Rigg pitches reason against itself, elegantly and iconoclastically undermining our own rational basis,... Read more

Psychic Geography

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 22 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 Gateshead Workplace Gallery is pleased to present Psychic Geography a group exhibition of new and existing works by nine diverse artists. The exhibition includes collage, painting, photography, sculpture, and video that examines the interaction between spaces and people, places and identity. In a new series of collages by Eric Bainbridge, base... Read more

Catherine Bertola: Unseen by all but me alone

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 10 Oct - 7 Nov 2009 Gateshead The exhibition reveals a constant theme within Bertola’s work by drawing on the historic role of women and craft production. Through a collection of new and existing works Bertola celebrates the skill and beauty prevalent to historical genres of craft and the decorative arts, and draws upon a legacy of... Read more

Rachel Lancaster

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 5 Sep - 3 Oct 2009 Gateshead Rachel Lancaster's recent practice has focused on taking numerous photographic stills from found moving imagery, which are then translated into paintings and drawings. Taken from her home television set with a digital camera whilst watching popular movies and TV (such as Madmen, The Horror Channel or The Thing) Lancaster uses... Read more

Fade Away And Radiate

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 30 May - 27 Jun 2009 Gateshead Exploiting the aesthetics and methodologies of Science, the recent work of Jo Coupe adapts simple experiments and subverts half-understood scientific ideas, plundering iconic imagery for its metaphorical significance. In her work, the school science experiment, alchemy, and a fascination with decay unite to reveal the world as a mysteriously rational... Read more

"To The Demon King's Castle, of course..."

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 21 Mar - 18 Apr 2009 Gateshead Read more

Marcus Coates: The Plover's Wing

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 31 Jan - 28 Feb 2009 Gateshead Filmed before the recent incursion into Gaza by Israel, The Plover’s Wing sees Coates performing a shamanic ritual, descending in a trance to the ‘lower world’ to consult animal spirits on a question put to him by the Mayor of Holon, Israel regarding the Palestine/Israeli crisis. The subsequent discussion, drawn... Read more

Peter J. Evans: FEEDBACKER

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 22 Nov - 20 Dec 2008 Gateshead Peter J. Evans’ work across sculpture, installation, drawing and performance is unified by a continued exploration of systems, maps and patterns. His multifarious artworks respond directly to the relationships between the micro and the macro, the tangible and the intangible. They articulate a strong conviction in aesthetic beauty and invoke... Read more

Eric Bainbridge: Postwurstendung

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 11 Oct - 8 Nov 2008 Gateshead New Modernism meets melamine and sausages in a new work by Eric Bainbridge for his first solo exhibition at Workplace Gallery. Postwurstendung conflates Bainbridge’s ongoing reappraisal of Modernist sculptural principles with arguably the ultimate reductive minimal object - The Frankfurter. Bainbridge’ s elegant and refined white melamine construction nods toward... Read more

"All my favourite singers couldn't sing..."

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 30 Aug - 27 Sep 2008 Gateshead “All my favourite singers couldn’t sing…” is the first exhibition at The Old Post Office, the new home of Workplace Gallery in the heart of Gateshead Town centre. This group exhibition includes works by represented gallery artists alongside new local talent and invited international artists and spans all 3 floors... Read more

Moved

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 28 Jul - 31 Aug 2007 Gateshead MOVED shows works by artists who each reveal a tendency towards the uncovering and exploration of architectural form, site, and ideology. Catherine Bertola has methodically filled and gilded a crack in the concrete floor of the Gallery. Bertola’s intervention is predictive of the fate of the surrounding building, and significant... Read more

Jennifer Douglas: The Wood Between The Worlds

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 2 Jun - 7 Jul 2007 Gateshead Taking its title directly from C. S. Lewis’s book ‘The Magicians Nephew’ (part of ‘Chronicles of Narnia’) where The Wood is a 'linking room' between the protagonists real and fantasy worlds Douglas’s exhibition invites us to test our boundaries and preconceived notions of objects and space, fiction and reality in... Read more

False Witness

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 7 Apr - 12 May 2007 Gateshead Workplace Gallery are pleased to present False Witness - a group exhibition of new and existing works by six gallery artists. Drawing its title from the Ninth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Exodus 20:16) False Witness explores moral ambiguity concealed at the periphery of artworks... Read more

1, 2, 3, 4

WORKPLACE GALLERY 4 Nov - 2 Dec 2006 Gateshead Workplace Gallery are pleased to present 1,2,3,4 a group exhibition of new and existing works by four artists currently living and working in Glasgow: Maurice Doherty, Mick Peter, Owen Piper, and David Sherry. Maurice Doherty's art employs a variety of techniques - lens based, sculptural and two-dimensional. For, 1,2,3,4 Doherty... Read more

Hugo Canoilas: Propaganda

WORKPLACE GALLERY 23 Sep - 21 Oct 2006 Gateshead Read more

Darren Banks: Sci-Fi Looking Thing

4 Feb - 4 Mar 2006 Gateshead Sci-Fi Looking Thing Read more

Everything Must Go - Part 1

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 23 Sep - 22 Oct 2005 Gateshead Read more