20/12/2015

R.Lancaster & Basic House -first collaborative release on Opal Tapes....

The new Basic House & Metrist- split cassette release 'The World Is Order, Incarnate' on Opal Tapes, features the first collaborative release between Basic House and R.Lancaster- in the form of 'AM. GRAVE'. Listen and buy here!

"Split tape from Opal Tapes bossman Basic House and Metrist (Resin, Fifth Wall). Basic House is first up with the blackened, unnerving soundscapes, clanking metal and tormented distorted vocals of ‘Ursa Minor’. Sounds like some really bad shit is about to go off and then what sounds like a pig being slaughtered occurs accompanied by birds tweeting. As in chirping, not doing stuff on social networking. ‘AM Grave (With R. Lancaster)’ ventures further into darkness, a foreboding black ambient doomscape then he dishes out some beats on ‘Cloaking’ for some eerie, creeping techno" -Norman Records.

"Ursa Major exercises their noise daemons in a hellish echo chamber, and Rachel Lancaster joins in for the atonal blister of AM Grave whereas Cloaking trades in straight forward rolling techno and Piethug’R’Us hacks up hoary anti-funk grooves and Speed V1 dispenses saltiest, blown-out synth psychedelia." -Boomkat.

24/11/2015

A Cut, A Score- CIRCA Projects- BOOKSHOP

A Cut, A Score

Adam Denton, Basic House, Chlorine, Kathryn Barnett, Midwich, Rachel Lancaster, Sophie Cooper, Thijs Geritz

28 November 2015 – 23 January 2016

"As part of BOOKSHOP CIRCA Projects have developed the online Soundcloud archive ‘A Cut, A Score’ with CIRCA Projects 2015 ‘Network’ member Kathryn Barnett.

A Cut, A Score takes as its starting point Barnett’s interest in field sound recordings, and presents alongside her own work, a selection of practitioners who use field recordings in contrasting ways. By allowing each contributor to discuss their own approach to phonography: answering how, why and what, we aim to allow each entry to reflect the highly individuated practice of field sound recording."

Accompanying descriptions of each audio-work can be found on their Soundcloud description. All artworks curated for A Cut, A Score can be listened to at https://soundcloud.com/acutascore

CIRCA Projects- BOOKSHOP, at the NGCA Sunderland- runs from 28th November-23rd January 2016. click here to see the full program of events.

19/11/2015

'Dot Dot Dot Dash'- group show at Workplace gallery.

DOT DOT DOT DASH

WORKPLACE GATESHEAD: Preview Friday 20th November 6pm - 9pm

Jennifer Douglas, Rachel Lancaster, Paul Merrick, Mike Pratt, Joel Kyack

21 November 2015 - 30 January 2016

Rachel Lancaster

Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas

50 x 60 cm

19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in

(RL0194)

03/09/2015

I'M Ten exhibition IMT Gallery

I am showing work in the IMT gallery - I'M Ten exhibition and benefit auction see the links below for more information.

I’M Ten
4 September – 2 October 2015

Preview: Thursday 3 September 6 – 9pm
Auction launch: Thursday 17 September from 6pm GMT
Auction Ends: Friday 2 October at 9pm
Auction closing party: Friday 2 October 6 – 9pm

I’M Ten is a benefit auction and exhibition of over 150 emerging and established artists, brought together to celebrate IMT Gallery’s 10 year anniversary. All artworks will be auctioned off on Paddle8 at a starting price of £50 from the 17th of September – 2nd October 2015.

We are grateful to our I’M Ten nominators for their thoughtful artist selections. They include: Oreet Ashery (Artist), Stuart Brisley (Artist), Mark Doyle (Independent Art Consultant), Elisabetta Fabrizi (Curator, Tyneside Cinema), Kenneth Goldsmith (Poet and Founding Editor of UbuWeb), Sean Griffiths (Architect and Founder of FAT), Kelly Large (Public Programme Curator, Zabludowicz Collection), Ana Ventura Miranda (Director, Arte Institute) and Aura Satz (Artist).

Since its opening as a non-profit gallery, IMT Gallery has built a reputation for its innovative site-specific installations as well as its championing of sound art and of artists working across media. The sale of works in I’M Ten, all of which have been kindly donated by participating artists, raises funds to continue to support IMT Gallery’s ambitious public and curatorial programming, as well as towards building new resources for supporting artists.

Follow the exhibition and auction on #IMTen2015

Partners:

01/07/2015

live foley performance at Bohunk Institute, Nottingham 4th July 2015

Event - Live

Katie Goodwin & Rachel Lancaster

Brain Eaters

4 July 2015

Artists Katie Goodwin and Rachel Lancaster met during a residency at Tyneside Cinema in 2011. This chance encounter has since resulted in them collaborating on this new exhibition and on a performance which uses everyday household objects to create new foley sound effects for B-grade horror movies from the 50s and 60s.

Utilising the unused underwater footage shot from Small Wonders, the Brain Eaters concept stems from conversations with Terence Preston about the fresh water living amoebae that can get up your nose and eat your brain (in very rare cases). It is a sensationalist tongue-in-cheek take on the usual newsroom hysteria to diseases pumped out to the masses.

Brain Eaters was funded by a Small Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust.

Private View
4 July 2015 - 7.00pm

FREE

10/06/2015

Apostille- Supersonic Festival mix

I am pleased to announce that my track 'Glimpser' has been included in Apostille's Supersonic Festival mix- listen to the mix below!

"A Supersonic Special Mix by Apostille, solo project of Michael Kasparis, Glasgow's underground protagonist and founder of Night School Records.

The mix celebrates the start of Supersonic Festival Ltd Edition 2015. It features Apostille's personal picks from this year's Supersonic line up, showcasing an eclectic mix of genre less, boundary-testing music from around the world. Supersonic artists include Holly Herndon, Circuit Des Yeux, Happy Meals, Afework Nigussie, and of course, Apostille."

24/05/2015

'Pull'- Rachel Lancaster, Tyneside cinema gallery.

Rachel Lancaster

'Pull', (2015)
still taken from 8min HD video loop, stereo audio

Audio by Stephen Bishop

still from 'Pull' (2015)

installation of 'Pull' (2015) at Tyneside cinema gallery

"‘Pull’ (2015) is a new work by Lancaster that playfully constructs a sense of mystery and disorientation through the interplay between reality and illusion. The artist applies macro photographic techniques to create an isolated, abstracted space defined by movement, rhythms and colour. ‘Pull’ features an audio soundtrack created by musician, Stephen Bishop."

14/05/2015

The Brain Eaters- live Foley performance

foley props for 'The Brain Eaters'

The Brain Eaters

Free live performance: Thursday 14 May, 18:00

live foley performance of The Brain Eaters at Tyneside cinema gallery

still from 'The Brain Eaters'

07/05/2015

BIG FAIL 'Demonstrations' online

listen to/buy BIG FAIL 'demonstrations' here....

03/05/2015

'Beyond the Goldmine Standard'-at RPM record store

I am pleased to announce that I will be showing two new works in the exhibition 'Beyond The Goldmine Standard', at RPM record store Newcastle upon Tyne.

... "Organised by RPM Music and Curator, Matthew Hearn, 'Beyond the Goldmine Standard' is an evolving exhibition of LPs reworked and re-imagined by artists."

for more information click HERE

The Brain Eaters- exhibition at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon tyne

The Brain Eaters

Free live performance: Thursday 14 May, 18:00

Free exhibition: Friday 15 - Sat 16 May, 10:00 - 17:00, Sun 17 May, 11:00 - 17:00

Katie and Rachel now invite you to join them for a special live performance of The Brain Eaters on Thursday 14 May and to their joint FREE exhibition featuring two of their most recent artworks. Screening from Friday 15 - Sunday 17 May in The Gallery

06/04/2015

New York Residency

Images of the work I made while Artist in Residence at Elaine De Koonings former studio in New York can be seen at HERE

02/04/2015

Dallas Art Fair 2015

I'll be showing new paintings at the Dallas Art Fair 9-12th April, Booth D10. The work I'll be showing was all made whilst Artist in Residence in East Hampton, New York, at the former residence of Elaine De Kooning.

Workplace Gallery

Dallas Art Fair

Booth D10

10th - 12th April 2015

Preview gala: Thursday 9th April 6 - 10pm

Laura Lancaster

Rachel Lancaster

For six weeks during February and March 2015 twin sisters Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancasterwere artists in residence in the former home and studio of artist Elaine De Kooning in East Hampton, New York. For both painters, who currently live and work in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England, the residency provided a unique opportunity to develop a significant new body of work in a historic context. The resulting paintings are presented at Dallas Art Fair for the first time.

Laura Lancaster untitled, 2015, oil on canvas, 130 x 260 cm (51 1/8 x 102 3/8 in) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery.

Laura Lancaster's work to date is extracted from an archive of anonymous photographs procured from thrift stores and flea markets. Mediated through painting, her work transposes the forgotten and discarded snap-shots of strangers' lives into an ambiguous territory between abstraction and figuration. Divorcing her subjects from their specific context and time, Lancaster relocates them to a place of collective memory and experience that resonates with our own. Laura Lancaster's work oscillates between the nostalgic sentimentality of the celebratory moment, and the melancholic poignancy of the past.

This new group of paintings is based upon my collection of found anonymous home movies. Incorporating the moving image into the painting process is a significant departure, which provides new areas of exploration into how my work can deal with ideas of the cinematic and the temporal, as well as open up the painting process itself. It allows for a deeper investigation into the mechanics of images, and the way in which the are created and consumed. In all the works, evidence of the film as an object is visible, in the sprocket holes and marks left on the film, referring to its mechanical, functional characteristics. These elements disrupt the coherence of the images highlighting their constructed nature. These devices also force the abstract and the figurative to exist on the same picture plane and allow for this dialogue to take place more overtly within my practice. Laura Lancaster 2015.

Rachel Lancaster untitled, 2015, Oil on canvas, 154 x 183 cm (60 5/8 x 72 1/8 in) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery.

Rachel Lancaster's new works are derived from her interest in the intersections between Music, Film, and Photography, their respective transitions from analogue to digital.

The images in these paintings are from photographs I've taken directly of the TV screen, mostly stills from 1970's b movies, 1980's horror, obscure, rubbish films on YouTube. Some of the details I've included in the paintings hint at the origin such as the black bands and the backlit/glow of the screen in the paint. I try to use films less identifiable so the paintings become about film-photo-paint rather than being caught up in a specific narrative. I took over 300 stills in the process of making this series selecting just a few to paint. I have focused on overlooked, split seconds held and frozen in the paint, images that have an uneasy feel, eluding to what is outside of the frame or before and after the moment. Rachel Lancaster 2015

The cult film and television images that Lancaster captures evade the typical themes with which these movies are associated. Instead Lancaster is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots and extreme close- ups of inanimate objects, and commonplace domestic interiors. The resulting, often blurred or pixelated, photographs are then used as the source material for her work. Mediated by the poor resolution of technology and divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure these paintings become abstract and ambiguous. Yet instead of diminishing their meaning, Lancaster's fetishisation of these images enables them to accrue status and power whilst signifying the unknown event that precedes or follows. In this way Lancaster's work is 'Uncanny' through the psychological charge of the selected image compounded by its cinematic monumentality, the reproduction or doubling of an image in common cultural parlance, and in the subliminal evocations dependent on our familiarity with the language and conventions of Hollywood.

For more information please contact Paul Moss paul@workplacegallery.co.uk

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20/02/2015

New York Residency

some images taken while Artist In Residence in East Hampton, New York- the former residence of Elaine De Kooning.