Rachel Lancaster

Biography

Born 1979 Hartlepool, UK

1998 - 2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University

Lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2013

Rachel Lancaster, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

2012

Step Sequence, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

2009

Rachel Lancaster, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Group Exhibitions

2015

DOT DOT DOT DASH,Workplace London, UK

I’M Ten, IMT Gallery, London, UK

BEYOND THE GOLDMINE STANDARD, RPM Music, Newcastle UK

The Brain Eaters, Performance with Katie Goodwin, The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK

2014

Satellite Satellite, Workplace London, UK

Painting the Pixel, Gallery North, Newcastle, UK

2012

Omnia Mea Mecum Porto, Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany

2011

Double, Double, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

ROTATE, Contemporary Arts Society & Shortlist Media, London

Graphite, Gallery North, Newcastle, UK

MFA 2011, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

2010

MFA 2010, Newcastle University, UK

2009

Morphic Resonance, PSL, Leeds, UK

Day After Day After Day, Star & Shadow Gallery, Newcastle, UK

2008

Lost & Found, Workplace Gallery at Zoo Art Fair, London, UK

‘All My Favourite Singers Couldn’t Sing …’, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Sovereign Art Prize, Somerset House, London, UK

Harker Herald, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK

2007

BEACON OF HOPE, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria UK

You’re My Density, Star & Shadow Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Collections

Private Collections UK


SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND RESIDENCIES

2015

Artist in residence at Alewive Brooke Drive, East Hampton, New York - the former residence and studios of artist Elaine De Kooning.

2014

Arborescent, graphic score commission and live performance, Kielder Forest, Northumberland, UK.

Basic House, audio-visual collaboration, Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK.

2013

Brain Eaters, live Foley performance, ‘C’ Project Space, London, UK.

2012

Step Sequence, public commission, Tyneside cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

2011

Pixel Palace Artist In Residence, Tyneside cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

2009

Morphic Resonance residency, PSL (Project Space Leeds), Leeds, UK.

AWARDS

2012

Awarded Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts award.

2008

Shortlisted for Sovereign European Art Prize 2008.

2006

Awarded Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts award.

2001-2002

Graduate Fellowship, Northumbria University, UK.

PRESS/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Graphite, 2011, exhibition catalogue, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Arts and Social Sciences academic Press, ISBN: 978-0-9565433.

Garageland, Issue 11, 2011, p.66.

Illustrated Ape, Issue 28, 2009, p.24.

Artworld, Issue 8. Dec.2008, p.129.

A-N, October 2009.