Workplace Gallery is pleased to announce 

 the first solo exhibition of Mike Pratt at Workplace London comprising an installation of recent sculpture and painting made during the summer of 2014.

All of the works are loosely based around the theme of the torso, with the wax cast paintings being produced using the same mold. In total there are 5 paintings and 5 vibrating bikers. I had always wanted to work with worn out leather jackets as a material just because they hold a close relationship to painting, with a layered surface revealing actions and incidents. I wanted these objects to be presented as a portrait, emulating an experience. Their frayed hair extensions (garnished with seashells and feathers) allow a non-verbal declaration towards the quintessential outsider, describing their characteristics through materiality.

The paintings are abstractions; they mimic each other's form and share a domestic dining room scale. Their nature is pointed towards romantic notions and vague uncertainties. My position whilst making these works was always to push and pull the outcomes of the process, making space to rely on intuitive remarks.

Mike Pratt was born in 1987 in Seaham, North East England. He graduated from Northumbria University in 2009 where he was awarded the Paul Mason Sculpture Prize and completed a two-year postgraduate programme at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2014 where he currently lives and works. 

, Satellite, Newcastle. Group Exhibitions include 

V8 Plattform für neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; 

 Malgras Naudet, Manchester and A3 Project Space, Birmingham; 

 NewBridge Space, Newcastle upon Tyne; and 

 The Royal Standard, Liverpool. Pratt is a founder member of the artists group JAMBON. 

Workplace Gallery have presented solo booths of Pratt’s work at both Art Los Angeles Contemporary and The Manchester Contemporary and included his work in gallery presentations at NADA Miami and The Armory Show New York. His work is included in private collections in the UK, Italy, and USA.

A detail of a sculpture by Mike Pratt of a mannequin torso wearing a leather biker jacked and with a motor inside.

Installation shots of Mike Pratt's exhibition 'The Meeting of Two Eyebrows' at Workplace London

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Mike Pratt's debut solo exhibition features sculptural and painted works centered around the torso, using wax and worn leather jackets. Experience abstract forms and materiality.

The Meeting of Two Eyebrows

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