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.