Laura Lancaster discusses her new body of work for her solo institutional exhibition My Echo, My Shadow at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art. Filmed in her studio in Newcastle upon Tyne.

My Echo, My Shadow is the largest solo show to date of British painter Laura Lancaster. Presenting new paintings made over the last few years My Echo, My Shadow delves into the current practice of one of the North East’s most celebrated and accomplished painters.

My Echo, My Shadow

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Sunderland, UK

16 March – 30 June 2024

Robin Megannity discusses the ideas behind the works in his solo exhibition Call of the Void at Workplace | London.

Call of the Void explores Megannity’s endeavour to hold paradoxical or contrary sentiments within his painting that connect the ubiquitous with the sublime. Historical techniques and traditions of painting are appropriated and quoted in his work, and the pathos, melancholy and solemnity of Northern European still life paintings are interrupted by references to digital image making. Glitches and ruptures in the framing of his images connect the temporality of the historical source imagery with commonplace contemporary means of media manipulation.

TV News footage from Eric Bainbridge's solo exhibition 'Viewpoints' at Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis in 1986