TheManchester Contemporary
Official Catalogue 2014
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An invitational art fair that provides a platform for emerging developments within contemporary art
CONTENTS Welcome
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Guided Tours
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Artisan Café & Bar
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Floor Plan
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Gallery Profiles
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Art Diary
26 - 28 September 2014 Old Granada Studios Manchester
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Kate Jesson, Curator, Manchester Art Gallery Paulette Terry Brien, Director, The International 3 Laurence Lane, Director, The International 3
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MANCHESTER Beverley Tai Gallery Cheshire Art Agencies Cloud Gallery TheManchester Collect Art Contemporary Curious Duke Gallery Deborah Butler Gallery DegreeArt DIY Gallery Edition 3 Erpen Gallery4Art Generation Gallery George Thornton Art Go Figurative Alce Harfield 2014 is an exciting year for The Manchester Hepplestone Fine Art Contemporary as we open in new premises that will IE Arts see us through into the future. Old Granada Studios Incognito Gallery is an impressive part of Manchester’s history and Janet Kenyon Art an excellent venue for this contemporary art fair. Manchester Craft and This stability will see us build on the previous five Design Centre I have great pleasure in welcoming you to the sixth years, further encouraging our visitors along with Mayne Gallery edition of The Manchester Contemporary, which has participating galleries and artists to enjoy, discuss Mill Bridge Gallery evolved from the need to show and sell the works of and purchase great contemporary art. My Life in Art critically engaged emerging artists to a burgeoning Orso Majoraudience of collectors and curators from the North The success of last year’s fair once again shows the Other Points of View and Greenwood beyond. increasing attention that contemporary art is receiving Owen Goodwin in this city. The Manchester Contemporary gives this Own Art With a new home in Old Granada Studios, a space Sekers Finethat Artechoes the energy, creativity and bravery of our art loving population a focused opportunity to engage SiOTT Gallery with art and see how it might fit into their lives and exhibiting artists and galleries, we are proud to offer Speckled Wood Gallery homes. The Manchester Contemporary 2014 has our Fine richest, Susan Scates Art most diverse fair yet. We hope that you more exhibitors, more artists and more art than ever find something within it that delights, intrigues and The Art Gallery before and with prices ranging from £50 to £10,000+ movesStudio you. The Gate House there will be work for the seasoned collector as well The London PUG as the intrepid first timer. Thom Hetherington Vernon Mill’s Artists View Art Gallery Director We look forward to meeting you. The Manchester Contemporary The Manchester Paulette Terry Brien & Laurence Lane Sponsored by Contemporary Directors: The International 3 Aid & Abet Bureau Castlefield Ceri Hand Gallery Our Sponsors Cole Conway Sponsored by Division of Labour IMT Gallery The International 3 Limoncello Man&Eve Paper Platform A Supported by Supporting Seventeen Our Supporters Untitled Gallery Vitrine Workplace Gallery Supported by Supporting WORKS|PROJECTS
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GUIDED TOUR OF THE MANCHESTER CONTEMPORARY TOUR TIMES Take a tour of The Manchester Contemporary, led by leading city curators, and meet the gallerists to better appreciate this exhibition of beautiful, sometimes challenging, but always intriguing, critically engaged contemporary art. The tours provide insightful background and context on the artists, their careers, influences and methods, bringing you closer to the works.
Starting from the Hospitality Area opposite STAND 169 in Buy Art Fair. Friday 26 Sept 2014 Saturday 27 Sept 2014 Saturday 27 Sept 2014 Sunday 28 Sept 2014 Sunday 28 Sept 2014
The Artisan Café & Bar will offer a delicious range of food and drink available to eat in the on-site café or take away. There will be delicious delights such as deli boards, baguettes, soups, salads and tasty cakes and biscuits. Creative cocktails, beers and wines will also be available to buy at the bar.
COCKTAILS The mixologists at Artisan have devised five artistically themed cocktails for your to enjoy during your visit Broken Rose; beefeater gin, rose liqueur, almond syrup, pineapple and lemon juice, smashed together with rose petals £7.50 The Sapphire; Greenmark vodka, violet liqueur, lemon and apple juice, served straight up with a violet sugar rim £6.50
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Renaissance Man; Wild Turkey 81, cinnamon syrup, fresh lemon and freeze dried blueberries £7.50 Orange Blossom; beefeater gin, aperol, cointreau, orange blossom flowers, lemon juice, vanilla syrup and a dash egg white £6.95 Starry Night; vodka, blackcurrant, vanilla topped with bubbles and an artistic touch £7.50
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BUREAU Ground Floor, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3EB T: 07904 277084 E: info@bureaugallery.com W: www.bureaugallery.com @BUREAU_gallery Bureau
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Gallery Profile: Bureau is a contemporary art gallery and consultancy founded in 2006 by Sophia Crilly and Mark Kennard. The gallery works with represented and invited artists at varying career stages to showcase conceptually rigorous and innovative contemporary visual practice, premiering and commissioning new work, and curating projects on and off site. Gallery artists exhibit widely internationally, and have works held in significant private collections and museums.
1-11R-1B-2G-3Y-4R Unique aquatint, 20 x 15cm © Assunta Ruocco, 2014 Image courtesy of the artist & Bureau
Artists Exhibited: Noel Clueit, Ray Martin, Assunta Ruocco & Evangelia Spiliopoulou
CACTUS GALLERY The Royal Standard, 131 Vauxhall Road Liverpool, Merseyside L3 6BN T: 07506 578645 E: info@cactusgallery.co.uk W: www.cactusgallery.co.uk @cactusliverpool Cactusliverpool
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Gallery Profile: Cactus is an artist-run gallery, founded in 2014 and based in Liverpool. Artists Exhibited: Jack Brindley, Katharina Fengler, Alex Rathbone, Charlie Godet Thomas & Dominic Watson
Katharina Fengler Installation view ‘Impostor Syndrome’, 2012 Photo by Henning Moser Courtesy of the artist & Cactus Gallery
CARROLL/FLETCHER 56 - 57 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EQ T: 020 7323 6111 E: info@carrollfletcher.com W. www.carrollfletcher.com @carrollfletcher carroll-fletcher
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Gallery Profile: Carroll / Fletcher works with exceptional emerging and established artists whose practices use a diverse range of media to explore contemporary socio-political, cultural, scientific and technological themes. The exhibition programme offers alternative frameworks for understanding, interpreting and contextualising an artist’s work, from exhibition publications, to talks and panel discussions, performances, screenings and other events. Artists Exhibited: Eulalia Valldosera, Michael Joaquin Grey, Constant Dullaart, Karmelo Bermejo & Wood+Harrison
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Constant Dullaart, Cross Hatch_35.20.3 (2014) From the series Jennifer in Photoshop, Creative Suite 6 (2014) Courtesy of the artist and Carroll / Fletcher
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CASTLEFIELD GALLERY 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester M15 4GB T: 0161 832 8034 E: info@castlefieldgallery.co.uk W: www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk @CastlefieldGall castlefieldgallery
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Gallery Profile: Since its founding in 1984, Castlefield Gallery (CG) has been successfully developing emerging contemporary artists through its ambitious curated exhibitions programme. CG also runs CG Associates, a professional development scheme for artists, writers and independent curators, and New Art Spaces, pop up project and exhibition spaces in the North West.
Aliyah Hussain – ‘Jollies’ (2014) Holiday snaps, vinyl shapes and gouache Courtesy of the artist & Castlefield Gallery
Artists Exhibited: Nina Chua, Aliyah Hussain, Naomi Lethbridge, Hardeep Pandhal, and Richard Shields
CAUSTIC COASTAL 66-72 Chapeltown Street, Manchester M1 2WH T: 07999 838045 E: hello@causticcoastal.biz W: www.causticcoastal.biz @causticcoastall Caustic Coastal
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Gallery Profile: Caustic Coastal is an independent art label based in the UK working as a curatorial platform for upcoming artists. Co-directed by Dean Brierley & Katy Morrison, we are currently based at Rogue Project Space, Manchester. Artists Exhibited: Leonard Johansson, Rebecca Sangster, Victoria Adam, Russell Hill, Gabriel Birch & Catherine Parsonage
DIVISION OF LABOUR 62 Chestnut Walk, Worcester WR1 1PR T: 07595 397861 E: nat@divisionoflabour.co.uk W: www.divisionoflabour.co.uk @DofLabour
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Gallery Profile: Division of Labour, founded in 2012, is located on the ground floor of Worcester City Museum. The gallery currently represents eight artists whilst working alongside many others through group exhibitions and project work. The gallery holds an ethos of presenting the best artists who share similar sensibilities; a highly developed imagination with clear methodology. The work is often political, social, and economically driven with a conceptual bent, grounded in the everyday.
Fancy work #1, Celine Berger Courtesy of the artist & Division of Labour
Artists Exhibited: Celine Berger
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DOMOBAAL 3 John Street, London WC1N 2ES T: 07801703871 E: info@domobaal.com W: domobaal.com @domobaal domobaal
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Gallery Profile: Contemporary Art Gallery in Central London since 2000 Artists Exhibited: David Gates, Emma Talbot, Lee Edwards, Lothar Götz & Neil Gall
Emma Talbot, Holes and Stains and Marks, Acrylic on Canvas, 2013, 195 x 155 cm. Courtesy of the artist & domobaal.
EASTSIDE PROJECTS 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham West Midlands B9 4AR T: 0121 771 1778 E: info@eastsideprojects.org, W: www.eastsideprojects.org @eprjcts
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Gallery Profile: Eastside Projects makes art public. We are an internationally renowned centre of excellence based in a free public gallery, imagined and organised by artists, in partnership with Birmingham City University. We commission, produce and present experimental art practices and demonstrate ways in which art may be useful as part of society.
Bill Drummond ‘A0 Scale Models’ 2014 (Installation view ‘The 25 Paintings’, Eastside Projects) Photo by Stuart Whipps. Courtesy of the artiist & Eastside Projects
Artist Exhibited: Bill Drummond
EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham West Midlands B9 4AR T: 0121 771 1778 E: info@eastsideprojects.org W: www.extraspecialpeople.org @xspecialpeople
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Gallery Profile: Extra Special People (ESP) is Eastside Projects’ Associates scheme. ESP works with artists, designers, curators and writers to support the development of work, ideas, connections and careers through a programme of events, opportunities and projects. Members become active contributors to a practice-led peer support network and benefit from Eastside Projects’ Andrew Gillespie, ‘Elbow Grease’, 2013, cardboard, glue, acrylic experience of the contemporary art world. Artists Exhibited: Andrew Gillespie, Tracy Hickinbottom, Joanne Masding & Kevin Ryan
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paint, 35 x 15 x 15 cm. Courtesy of the artist & Extra Special People.
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GRAND UNION 19 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 5RS T: 0121 643 9079 E: info@grand-union.org.uk W: www.grand-union.org.uk @grandunionltd Grand Union
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Gallery Profile: Grand Union is a gallery and studios located in Digbeth, Birmingham’s cultural quarter. We support the development of artists and curators through the provision of high quality workspaces and an ambitious programme of free exhibitions, talks and events.
Luke McCreadie, Detail from ‘Untitled (Booth)’, installation at Grand Union 2013. Courtesy of the artist & Grand Union.
Artists Exhibited: Luke McCreadie & Holly Antrum
HOT BED PRESS 1st Floor, The Casket Works, Cow Lane, Salford M5 4NB T: 0161 743 3111 E: info@hotbedpress.org W: www.hotbedpress.org @HotBedPress hotbedpress
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Gallery Profile: Hot Bed Press is an organisation dedicated to providing printmaking facilities and workshops to support artists throughout the UK. We are situated in an old Victorian warehouse and have a vast array of printing equipment. We run evening and weekend workshops and also year-long course in printmaking and book arts. Artists Exhibited: Alex Hoggarth, Andrew Magee, Cathy Ferns, Jacqui Symons, Jayne Pellington, Jez Dolan, Joanna Wilkinson, Karen Mercer, Kate Downes, Lesley Pangburn, Lynn Kirkley, Mark Moseley, Oliver Flude, Robert Helnow & Samuel Horsley
Andy Magee, The Lost Domain, 3 colour screenprint on 300gsm Somerset Velvet Grey 56cm x 38cm, Courtesy of the artist & Hot Bed Press
IMT GALLERY Unit 2, 210 Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9NQ T: 020 8980 5475 E: mail@imagemusictext.com W: www.imagemusictext.com @IMTgallery IMT Gallery
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Gallery Profile: IMT Gallery was founded in 2005 by Lindsay Friend. The gallery has become known for its innovative site-specific installations, its championing of sound art and of artists working across media. The gallery represents David Burrows, Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, Laura Pawela, Plastique Fantastique, Gordon Shrigley, NaoKo TakaHashi and Mark Peter Wright.
Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, United We/I Stand Etc. me_South Africa, 2014, Video still. Courtesy of the artist & IMT Gallery.
Artists Exhibited: David Burrows & Lotte Rose Kjær Skau
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THE INTERNATIONAL 3 142 Chapel Street, Salford M3 6AF T: 07981 389 591 E: ptb@international3.com W: www.international3.com @international3_
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Gallery Profile: We support emerging and mid-career artists through exhibitions and events on and off site and through participation in art fairs. We are the curatorial coordinator for The Manchester Contemporary and an invited member of New Art Dealers Alliance. We are supported by Arts Council England and by our Founder Patrons. Artists Exhibited: Brass Art, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, Hondartza Fraga & Rafal Topolewski
Brass Art, Bettina, 2012/13, duratrans lightbox. Edition of 6 plus AP. 15cm x 21cm. Courtesy the artist & The International 3.
MARIA STENFORS Unit 10, 21 Wren Street, London WC1X 0HF T: 020 78370819 E: info@mariastenfors.com W: www.mariastenfors.com @MariaStenfors mariastenfors
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Gallery Profile: Maria Stenfors opened in London in 2010, and represents nine international emerging artists. The gallery aims to provide a platform for an intimate dialogue between space and material. Alongside its exhibition program, the gallery Dean Hughes, ‘Windowless work’, participates in numerous national and international art fairs, as well as 2013, wood, dyed calico and thread, enjoying a rich program of events. 64 x 42 x 4.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist & Maria Stenfors, London
Artists Exhibited: Lilah Fowler, Dean Hughes & Mela Yerka
PAPER Unit 12, Mirabel Studios, 14-20 Mirabel Street, Manchester M3 1PJ T: 07799 813062 E: papergallerymanchester@gmail.com W: www.paper-gallery.co.uk @Paper_Gallery_ Paper-Gallery
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Gallery Profile: Based in Manchester, PAPER is an artist-run commercial gallery selling affordable and accessible works on paper. PAPER represents a range of emerging and midcareer artists whose practice is based around the medium of paper. PAPER has a regular programme of exhibitions: showing gallery artists and providing a platform for outside curatorial projects. Artists Exhibited: Andrea Cotton, Bethan Hamilton, Conor Rogers, David Hancock, Frances Disley, Gareth Bunting, George Shaw, Graham Watson, Hannah Wooll, James Moore, Jemima Brown, Jenny Core, Jenny Steele, Leanne Richardson, Naomi Lethbridge, Phill Hopkins, Rachel Wrigley, Richard Meaghan, Sharon Leahy-Clark, Simon Leahy-Clark, Simon Woolham, Susannah Douglas & Wen Wu
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Frances Disley, Untitled #3, Mixed media on paper, 2014. Courtesy of the artist & PAPER Gallery.
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PATRICIA FLEMING PROJECTS South Block, 60 Osborne Street, Glasgow, Strathclyde G1 5QH T: 07968 066708 E: studio@patriciaflemingprojects.co.uk W: www.patriciaflemingprojects.co.uk @pfprojects Patricia Fleming Projects
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Gallery Profile: Patricia Fleming Projects is based in Glasgow. We work closely with emerging and established artists to present projects, exhibitions, and events. These include curated on and off site programmes, public realm commissions and talks. Artists Exhibited: Jacqueline Donachie, Kevin Hutcheson, David Sherry, Jane Topping & DISCORDIA (Limited edition t-shirts by 20+ Contemporary Artists from Scotland)
Kevin Hutchinson, Drew, 2013 Courtesy of the artist & Patricia Fleming Projects.
PLATFORM A Middlesbrough Railway Station, Zetland Road, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire TS1 1EG T: 07941663619 E: info@platformagallery.net W: www.platformagallery.net @platfmagallery Platform A gallery
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Gallery Profile: Platform A gallery is dedicated to innovative developments in contemporary art. It is a catalyst and advocate for the cultural life of the North East region of the UK and beyond, and represents the work of emerging and established artists. Its strategy has been developed to raise profile worldwide. Artists Exhibited: Tony Charles, Annie O’Donnell, Jo Hamill
S1 ARTSPACE 120 Trafalgar Street, Sheffield S1 4JT T: 0779 000 5601 E: info@s1artspace.org W: www.s1artspace.org @S1Artspace S1 Artspace
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Gallery Profile: S1 Artspace is an artist-led organisation presenting an annual programme of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events. S1 also provides studio space for contemporary artists at varying stages in their careers, from recent graduates to established artists working at an international level. Artists Exhibited: Eva Berendes, Simon Bill, James Clarkson, Nicolas Deshaye, Sean Edwards, Ryan Gander, Melissa Gordon, George Henry Longly, Emily Musgrave, James Pyman, Jessica Warboys, & Jennifer West
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Jennifer West, Dawn Surf Jellybowl (Donuts and Sanded at Dawn), 2013, 58 x 45cm | archival print, Edition of 20 + 3 AP. S1 Artspace Limited Edition. Courtesy of the artist & S1 Artspace
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SYSON 9 Beck Street, Nottingham NG1 1EQ T: 07919 155429 E: sysongallery@gmail.com W: www.sysongallery.com @sysongallery SYSON
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Gallery Profile: SYSON was established in 2013 by independent curator Jennie Syson as a new commercial gallery in Nottingham City Centre. Working with a range of artists on exhibitions, editions and new commissions each year, the gallery also programmes regular artists’ talks and Reading Room discussions on contemporary art and critical theory. Artists Exhibited: Liam Aitken, Kashif Nadim Chaudry, Blue Firth, Candice Jacobs, Geoff Diego Litherland & Yelena Popova
Geoff Diego Litherland, Space Ship Earth (Window No.15) Turn the Summer into Dust, 2014, Oil on canvas, 100cm x 100cm. Courtesy of the artist & SYSON.
TINTYPE 107 Essex Road, London N2 2SL T: 020 7354 4360 E: info@tintypegallery.com W: www.tintypegallery.com @TINTYPEGallery Tintype Art Gallery
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Gallery Profile: Tintype opened in 2010. We show distinctive, mainly UK based artists and our gallery programme is informed and led their practices. Tintype also helps emerging artists develop their work critically and commercially. Annually we offer a solo show to a young artist who has recently graduated from art school.
CLOUD, Jo Addison, 2013, card, jesmonite, gouache, 17 x 23 x 3 cm, photographer credit: Cameron Leadbetter. Courtesy of the artist & Tintype.
Artists Exhibited: Jo Addison, An Gee Chan, Adam Gillam, Jost Münster
UNTITLED GALLERY Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS T: 0161 833 3087 E: info@untitledgallerymanchester.com W: www.untitledgallerymanchester.com @UntitledGall UntitledGallery
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Gallery Profile: Untitled Gallery occupies an intimate space in the basement of the Friends’ Meeting House in Manchester. Untitled Gallery curates exhibitions and produces commissions as well as participation in art fairs and collaborations with other organisations. Untitled Gallery represents Rick Copsey, Antony Hall, Tom Ireland, and Lee Machell. Artists Exhibited: Lee Machell
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Lee Machell, Reed #5, 2014, Match drawing on cartridge paper, 42 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist & Untitled Gallery.
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VANE First Floor, Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 6QE T: 0191 261 8281 E: info@vane.org.uk W: www.vane.org.uk @VaneGallery vanegallery
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Gallery Profile: Vane is a curatorially led gallery based in Newcastle. Narbi Price, Untitled Well Painting, The exhibition programme is focused on the work of a group of 2013, acrylic on canvas, 91x122cm. emerging critically engaged artists from the North East of England, across the UK, Europe and the USA. The gallery also shows the work of invited guest artists in collaboration with other regional, national, and international galleries, festivals, and projects by guest curators, as well as participating in a number of international art fairs. Artists Exhibited: Kerstin Drechsel, Narbi Price & Flora Whiteley
VITRINE 183-185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW T: 020 7407 6496 E: sales@vitrinegallery.co.uk W: www.vitrinegallery.co.uk @VITRINEgallery Vitrine
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Gallery Profile: VITRINE is divided across two locations in Bermondsey; the gallery was founded on Bermondsey Street in September 2012, following the growth of the Bermondsey Square space, since 2010. VITRINE Bermondsey Street represents a growing stable of international artists and presents solo, two-person and group exhibitions. Dedicated to working with artists across all media and focusing on cross-disciplinary practices; VITRINE is establishing a strong reputation as a selector and nurturer of new talent in London.
Edwin Burdis, Pearl Ear Ring, 2013. Courtesy of the artist & VITRINE
Artists Exhibited: Jonathan Baldock & Edwin Burdis
WORKPLACE GALLERY The Old Post Office, 19 - 21 West Street, Gateshead Tyne and Wear NE8 1AD T: +44 (0)191 477 2200 E: info@workplacegallery.co.uk W: www.workplacegallery.co.ukk @_workplace_ Workplace Gallery
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Gallery Profile: Workplace is the leading commercial gallery outside of London in England. Representing a portfolio of established and emerging artists from its main gallery in Gateshead and recently opened second space in Mayfair, London, Jennifer Douglas, If walls had eyes #3, Workplace regularly exhibits at major international art fairs including 2014, Acrylic paint on canvas, Rawl Art Basel Hong Kong and Frieze London. plugs and screws, 60 x 90 cm, 23 5/8 x 35 3/8 in, (JD0084), Courtesy of the artist & Workplace Gallery, UK.
Artist Exhibited: Jennifer Douglas
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Crocodile: WORLD PREMIERE by Lee Mattinson Conflict and Collisions: New Contemporary Sculpture Manchester School of Art MA Show Till the stars turn cold - Kyla McDonald, Laura McLean-Ferris Hunters: David Chancellor Are you Listening Carefully? Daniel Buren: Catch as catch can: works in situ Here’s One We Made Earlier: Children’s Broadcasting Cornerhouse Projects: Shaunie Barton Noel Clueit: Towards Monumental Sculpture Women of the North, Exhibition Bernhard Schobinger: The Rings of Saturn Gego. Line as Object Thomas Bewick and His Apprentices Not All Documents Are Records: Photographing Exhibitions as an Art Form Chris Dobrowolski Hamlet starring Maxine Peake All that is Solid Melts into Air, Jeremy Dellar Sean Penlington/Joe Fletcher Orr Finding the Value - Contemporary artists explore aspects of the Madsen Collection
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Channel Crossings: English and French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Hamlet starring Maxine Peake Cornerhouse Projects: Shaunie Barton Sean Penlington/Joe Fletcher Orr Sculpting the Line: British Sculptors as Printmakers Lygia Clark: Organic Planes Buy Art Fair The Manchester Contemporary Jilly Edwards: Wanderlust Rosa Nguyen: Sanctuary (Asia Triennial) A Joyous Thing with Maggots at the Centre (Asia Triennial) Kashif Nadim Chaudry: Swags and Tails Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape Are you Listening Carefully? Here’s One We Made Earlier: Children’s Broadcasting Noel Clueit: Towards Monumental Sculpture All that is Solid Melts into Air, Jeremy Dellar Finding the Value - Contemporary artists explore aspects of the Madsen Collection Glass Fusion Exhibition Lydia Gifford: Drawn Qasim Riza Shaheen: Autoportraits in love-like conditions Concerning the Bodyguard Marine Hugonnier: Apicula Enigma Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting
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The Royal Exchange The Hepworth, Wakefield Benzie and Grosvenor Buildings, MMU S1 Artspace, Sheffield Impressions Gallery, Bradford Brindley Arts Centre BALTIC The Lowry Cornerhouse Bureau Gallery The Royal Exchange Manchester Art Gallery The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool & Model Gallery, Leeds The Royal Exchange Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle The International 3 York St Marys
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Manchester Art Gallery
The Royal Exchange Cornerhouse The International 3 The Hepworth, Wakefield The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Old Granada Studios Old Granada Studios Touchstones Rochdale Touchstones Rochdale Castlefield Gallery Manchester Craft and Design Centre Abbot Hall, Cumbria Brindley Arts Centre The Lowry Bureau Gallery Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle York St Marys The Royal Exchange BALTIC Cornerhouse The Tetley, Leeds BALTIC Manchester Art Gallery
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Channel Crossings: English and French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Hunters: David Chancellor Till the stars turn cold - Kyla McDonald, Laura McLean-Ferris Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences Daksha Patel: Bodytopos A Common Ground: Ikuko Iwamoto, Junko Mori and Kayo Saito Gintaras Didziapetris ‘Audi Fantasy’
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Finding the Value - Contemporary artists explore aspects of the Madsen Collection Glass Fusion Exhibition Lydia Gifford: Drawn Qasim Riza Shaheen: Autoportraits in love-like conditions Sophia Al-Maria: Virgin with a Memory Concerning the Bodyguard Jonathan Yeo Portraits The Event Sculpture Dorothy Annan and Trevor Tennant Marine Hugonnier: Apicula Enigma If all the world were paper and all the sea were ink Jilly Edwards: Wanderlust Rosa Nguyen: Sanctuary (Asia Triennial) Playtime: final show at Cornerhouse A Joyous Thing with Maggots at the Centre (Asia Triennial) Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting Picture the Poet John Moores Painting Prize 2014 Channel Crossings: English and French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Hunters: David Chancellor Till the stars turn cold - Kyla McDonald, Laura McLean-Ferris Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences
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Glass Fusion Exhibition Lydia Gifford: Drawn Qasim Riza Shaheen: Autoportraits in love-like conditions Concerning the Bodyguard Marine Hugonnier: Apicula Enigma Jilly Edwards: Wanderlust Rosa Nguyen: Sanctuary (Asia Triennial) A Joyous Thing with Maggots at the Centre (Asia Triennial) Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting Picture the Poet Channel Crossings: English and French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences
Greater Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery Impressions Gallery, Bradford S1 Artspace, Sheffield Leeds Art Gallery Touchstones Rochdale Touchstones Rochdale Pavilion, Leeds
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York St Marys The Royal Exchange BALTIC Cornerhouse Cornerhouse The Tetley, Leeds Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds BALTIC Northern Print, Newcastle Touchstones Rochdale Touchstones Rochdale Cornerhouse, Manchester Castlefield Gallery Manchester Art Gallery The Graves Gallery, Sheffield Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Manchester Art Gallery Impressions Gallery, Bradford S1 Artspace, Sheffield Leeds Art Gallery
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The Royal Exchange BALTIC Cornerhouse The Tetley, Leeds BALTIC Touchstones Rochdale Touchstones Rochdale Castlefield Gallery Manchester Art Gallery Manchester Art Gallery The Graves Gallery, Sheffield Manchester Art Gallery Leeds Art Gallery
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