Workplace is delighted to announce that Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster will present a two-person exhibition at Baltic in April 2025. 

Laura Lancaster’s work centres on the figure, its presence intensified by the manipulation of paint, creating ambiguous and surreal imagery drawn from the found photographs and cine-films of strangers. Lancaster's process-orientated practice forms an ongoing dialogue between the languages of painting and photography, focusing on the tension between the visceral materiality of the paint and the image it depicts.

Rachel Lancaster paints fragments of cinematic imagery, often cropped from photographs of 80's movies. Focussing on details of the figure such as the nape of a neck or an arm resting on a cardigan, Rachel Lancaster creates a heightened experience of intimacy through the interplay of light, fabric, skin, hair and pattern. A new body large scale works extend her investigation to explore a convergence of sensuousness with monumentality.

A painting by Laura Lancaster of a figure stoof in a body of water next to a red canoe

United Kingdom

Gateshead

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Laura and Rachel Lancaster present an exhibition showcasing abstract and surreal works. Explore Laura's figure-based art and Rachel's detailed imagery, both rich in tension and ambiguity.

Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster

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Rachel Lancaster

Laura Lancaster

London

Newcastle