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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.

Eric Bainbridge discusses the ideas behind two new distinct bodies of sculpture that examine taste, nostalgia and cliché. Filmed on the occasion of his solo exhibition PLUCKPLUCK at Workplace | London in March 2023.

Emii Alrai (b.1993) discusses her new commission 'A Core of Scar' at The Hepworth Wakefield.

Alrai, who lives in Leeds and has a studio in Wakefield, creates works and installations that subvert the traditional visual language of museum displays. Alrai weaves together ancient mythologies from the Middle East and oral histories from her own Iraqi heritage in objects which imitate archaeological artefacts. Alrai’s work draws attention to the contrast between the polished aesthetics of museums and the states of ruin which befall archaeological objects and the landscapes they are excavated from.

For The Hepworth Wakefield, Alrai has created a series of hand-blown glass vessels that evoke ancient funerary urns. The vessels are marked by scars and seams, which emerge from the making processes of casting and joining. In archaeological artefacts, such scars can hint at the violence of the object’s separation from its homeland – a separation that parallels experiences of migration and diaspora.

These glass vessels are shown together with engravings from Wakefield’s collection of historic Yorkshire landscapes, depicting gorges and scars formed by melting glaciers. In these distinctive and dramatic landscapes, Alrai finds affinities with bodily scars, which were once open wounds. Alrai’s commission investigates these physical markers of the past, weaving together body, landscape and object as sites of memory. Photographs, sketches and small sculptural objects will also be displayed to reveal Alrai’s research and creative process in developing the commission.

Alrai was selected by curators at iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield for the second year of Future Collect, owing to her sensitivity in navigating complex diasporic narratives and her imaginative exploration of materials. The commission will be acquired into Wakefield’s permanent art collection. Future Collect is iniva’s three-year programme aimed at transforming the future of public art collections across the UK to better reflect our culturally diverse society.

Future Collect is supported by Art Fund, Arts Council England and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Film by Christopher Vickers

From Vogue-devotee to production engineer to artist, Simeon Barclay focuses on how we shape and define our identity within cultural settings. We follow his journey of self-reinvention to discover the inspiration behind his work.

Simeon Barclay: The Hero Wears Clay Shoes. . See the Art Now exhibition until November 2017 at Tate Britain. FREE ENTRY https://goo.gl/Zri71o

Art Now is a series of exhibitions at Tate Britain focusing on new work by emerging artists. Since the 1990s, Art Now has recognized talent at its outset and provides a platform for artists who have gone on to become established figures in the British and international art scene.

Often considered El-Salahi's masterpiece, 'The Inevitable' was first conceived by the artist during his wrongful imprisonment. Deprived of paper, El-Salahi would sketch out plans for future paintings on the back of small cement casings, before burying them in the sand whenever a guard would come near. Working in this manner led to the artist developing a new style, one seen in 'The Inevitable', where a painting spreads out from what he refers to as the 'nucleus', or the germ of an idea, with a meaning hidden even from the artist himself until the work is finished.

Only when he saw 'The Inevitable' completed did El-Salahi realise how clear the message was; that people must rise up and fight tyranny and those that suppress them. This was something he felt was relevant not just to his own life when he created the work in the mid-eighties, but to all of Sudan.

Artist Ibrahim El-Salahi discusses his work 'Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams 1' 1962-3, a large-scale oil painting recently acquired by Tate.

TateShots recently visited Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi in his Oxford studio. In 2013 Tate Modern will present the UK's first major exhibition of El-Salahi's work, bringing together 100 pieces from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism, and reveal his place in the context of a broader, global art history.

Miles Thurlow talks to Vernissage TV about artist Matt Stokes who won the Beck's Futures prize 2006 for his 16mm film, Long After Tonight. Workplace Gallery also exhibited two other works by Matt Stokes at NADA Art Fair 2006: Real Arcadia and Crave Concept MK2.

Workplace Gallery at NADA Art Fair Miami 2006, December 6, 2006

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