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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.

We’re delighted to be presenting work by Laura Lancaster this week at Art Cologne Palma Mallorca.

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The figure is central to the work of Laura Lancaster, its presence intensified by the opposing entropic force of abstraction which perpetually subsumes and engulfs the protagonist. Images that are of their era - located in time through incidental clues such as clothing, pose, and contingent detail - are monumentalised by Lancaster through painting.

Rendered ambiguous through the looseness of her brushwork, images gleaned from found photographic images are dissociated from their specific context and orphaned from their original narrative to be re-presented as fragments. Through this process of isolation and dislocation her works become uncanny and symbolic, operating as signifiers of a wider, collective memory and a shared existential consciousness.

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

Booth P215
Palau de Congressos Palma Bay, Mallorca

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Laura Lancaster, ‘Before You’, 2026; Portrait of Laura Lancaster, 2022; Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.