For the opening exhibition of the new Workplace Gallery in the heart of Gateshead town centre, we are pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Newcastle based artist Laura Lancaster.

At first glance Lancaster's new work sits firmly within a tradition of figurative painting, portraiture and expressionism. With gestured rendering of heavy impasto brush strokes and with figures bleeding into the surrounding scene, often divorced from their identity through a splodge or smudge of paint, her figures maintain a slippery anonymity.