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Workplace

Workplace Gallery
Contemporary Art. London | Newcastle

04/08/2026

Ahead of the Turner Prize 2026 next month, we are revisiting key exhibitions and works by Simeon Barclay.

‘At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere’, 2023 was an ambitious solo exhibition of large-scale sculpture, installation, and wall-based work by Simeon Barclay, collaboratively shown across Workplace and Gathering, London.

Across both galleries, Barclay drew upon a rich vein of pop cultural sources, producing works that manifest through a complex interplay of the sonic, collage, an archival approach to the appropriated image, sculpture, video, objects and the re-interpretation of the gallery space through installation. Deeply evocative and steeped in the politics of public space, within these dual exhibitions the artist brought visitors on a journey across the construction of masculinity and experiences of living in a contemporary city. Collectively, the artworks further Barclay’s idiosyncratic engagement with art history and fashion, identity and histories of image making.

The Turner Prize will be hosted at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) in September 2026. Simeon Barclay has been shortlisted alongside Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku

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Simeon Barclay, ‘Buff #1, 2023. Video: Tom Carter Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

23/04/2026

Workplace is delighted to announce that Simeon Barclay has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2026.

Barclay is nominated for ‘The Ruin’, performed at ICA, London and The Hepworth, Wakefield in 2025. Commissioned and first presented by the Roberts Institute of Art, The Ruin is Barclay’s first live performance, bringing together spoken word and percussion by James Larter and horn by Isaac Shieh. The Turner Prize will be hosted at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) in Autumn 2026.

Simeon Barclay was born in Huddersfield, UK in 1975 and lives and works in West Yorkshire. He completed his BA at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2010 and his MFA at Goldsmiths College, London in 2014.

Barclay’s work draws on popular culture, bringing together contemporary and historical references from television, comics, theatre, modernist art, literature, sport and film. He reshapes and collides these references, often with humour, to explore the complex and contradictory narratives that shape the modern British experience, including ideas of memory, class, inheritance and masculinity.

‘The Ruin’ reflects on Britishness through the lens of Barclay’s upbringing in 1980s Huddersfield as the son of Caribbean parents. The soundscape combines early modern music, pop culture references and industrial sounds connected to Barclay’s youth and personal history. These sounds are layered with visual elements including lighting, fog and monochrome costumes worn by the performers, evoking the industrial landscapes of Northern England in ‘80s and ‘90s Britain. The piece is a dynamic and theatrical meditation on self-image, memory and the evolving myth of Britain.

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Portrait of Simeon Barclay 2026; ‘The Ruin’, 2025, ICA London. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff; Simeon Barclay, ‘Pop Pose’, 2023. Photo: Tom Carter; Simeon Barclay, ‘Portrait in a Landscape (The Yorkshire Rose (Side Elevation)’, Oil on canvas, 2022. Photo: Matt Denham; Simeon Barclay, ‘Pittu Pithu Pitoo’, 2022. Photo: Nick Turpin. Commissioned by South London Gallery, London.

22/04/2026

Opening tomorrow | Ki Yoong and Rachel Lancaster are included in the group exhibition ‘Image World’ at Hypha Gallery 1.

We live in an image world. Pictures circulate at the speed of thought, shaping not only what we see, but how we understand time, value, and presence. The exhibition brings together artists who use photographic imagery and its mediated aesthetics to explore how visual culture registers the contemporary moment

Hypha Gallery 1 / No. 1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EN
Preview: Thursday, 23th April 2026, 6 – 9pm
24th April – 30th May 2026

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Ki Yoong, ‘You Are What I Wanted To See’, 2025. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace UK.

21/04/2026

Now open | Simeon Barclay is included in the group exhibition ‘Curtain Up’ at The Lowry, Manchester.

‘Curtain Up’ is a group exhibition that explores how visual artists have sought to capture the shared anticipation, heightened emotions, and communal energy of being in an audience.

Featuring works by Simeon Barclay, Denzil Forrester, Joy Labinjo, Ryan Mosley, Abigail Reynolds, Bridget Smith, and major new commissions by Rowland Hill, Chris Paul Daniels and Ulla von Brandenburg.

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Simeon Barclay, ‘Look No Hands’ 2018; Simeon Barclay ‘A track with no name’, 2018. Photos: Michael Pollard. Courtesy the Artist and The Lowry Manchester.

16/04/2026

We presented new work by Rachel Lancaster at Art Cologne Palma Mallorca.

Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic stills from obscure ‘B-movies’ often from the 80s and 90s - the artists formative years - are selected, edited and then translated into oil paintings.

Lancaster’s paintings represent detailed fragments of a greater narrative. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close ups of inanimate objects, common place domestic interiors; the split-second liminal moments that are in-between the action. Divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure, these paintings become temporally abstracted; ambiguous and open ended as to the unknown events which have preceded or may follow.

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Rachel Lancaster, ‘Within the reach of me’, 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

15/04/2026

At Art Cologne Palma Mallorca we presented a curated display by gallery artists Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Wang Pei, and Ki Yoong.

🔗 Visit the link in bio to explore our presentation

14/04/2026

At Art Cologne Palma Mallorca we presented work by Ki Yoong.

Yoong’s paintings are marked by a quiet tenderness, underscored by his distinctive use of tightly cropped compositions upon found materials including copper, steel, acrylic, and glass. The removal of visual information opens space for projection, inviting the viewer to bring their own associations and memories into the process of looking. His works simultaneously explore portraiture and object making.

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Ki Yoong, ‘Now it’s gone’, 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

12/04/2026

Today, Sunday 12 April, is the final day of Art Cologne Palma Mallorca. Open 1-6pm.

Find us at booth P215 to view our group presentation including works by gallery artists Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Wang Pei, and Ki Yoong.

Booth P215
Palau de Congressos Palma Bay, Mallorca
9 - 12 April 2026

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Laura Lancaster, In The Light, 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

10/04/2026

Art Cologne Palma Mallorca continues until 12 April. Visit us at booth P215 to view our presentation.

Booth P215
Palau de Congressos Palma Bay, Mallorca
9 - 12 April 2026

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Wang Pei, ‘The Fleeting Days’ 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

09/04/2026

Opening today | Art Cologne Palma Mallorca

Find us at booth P215 to view our group presentation including works by gallery artists Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Wang Pei, and Ki Yoong.

VIP Preview: Thursday 9 April, 12 - 8pm
9 - 12 April 2026

Booth P215
Palau de Congressos Palma Bay, Mallorca

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Rachel Lancaster, Up To The Light, 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

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