CIRCA Projects’ practice spans exhibition making to independent publishing, commissioning new works and the production of events and performances. Operating as a mutable entity, over the years CIRCA Projects’ has been rethinking its own structure from one programme to the next.
Since 2009, CIRCA Projects has worked in shifting thematic and structural cycles. The organisation has maintained its intent of experimenting with exhibition formats and fostering collaborations that challenge artistic and curatorial roles alongside a consistent focus on its regional context. Lead by Dawn Bothwell, Adam Phillips and Sam Watson, in 2016, we invited artist Giles Bailey to spend two-years producing a new body of work in the Northeast of England. More...
⚬ | Giles Bailey & Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby | ISLANDERS: Version 4 | NGCA, Sunderland |
2019 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects | Festival of the Not | Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle |
2019 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby | ISLANDERS: Version 3 | Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby | ISLANDERS: Version 2 | Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby | ISLANDERS: Version 1 | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | 2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects, Foundation Press | Unbound #5 | BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects | Studio is Sudden: Your base is showing |
The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Tara Bergin | Studio is Sudden: A close reading of Louis MacNeice’s Snow |
The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Rene McBrearty | Studio is Sudden | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Nadia Hebson | Studio is Sudden | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Holly Argent | Studio is Sudden | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Christian Jendreiko, Wilfried Dörstel, Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects | GEFANGENE DER GESCHICHTE | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
.⚬ | Giles Bailey | Studio is Sudden: TALKER #2 |
The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2018 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Cédric Fauq & Paul Maheke | Studio is Sudden: And the Moon will set the Time ep.03 | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Chris Bate & Sarah Bouttell, Giles Bailey, Deborah Bower, Jo Coupe, Dan Holdsworth, Jenny Holzer, Allan Hughes & Mark Jackson, Paul Becker, Yoko Ono, Cecilia Stenbom, Peter Todd and Elizabeth Wright | My Part Of Your Home | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Sarah Turner | Studio is Sudden: Public House |
Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle |
2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects | Take the Credits! | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | 2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Katy Bentham | Studio is Sudden: In Pursuit |
The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Deanna Smith | Studio is Sudden: In Pursuit |
The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Kathryn Elkin | Studio is Sudden (film) | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Rory Pilgrim, Christian Jendreiko, Christo Wallers, G.O.D.S, John W. Fail, Giles Bailey, Anne-James Chaton | World is Sudden: Summer Lab | Various Locations | 2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Peter Todd, Conal McStravick | World is Sudden: | The Northern Charter, Newcastle | 2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey | Then the idea I was not finished #1 | n/a | 2017 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects • Simon Bayliss & Susie Green, Kathryn Elkin, Dane Law, Sarah Kenchington, Mia La Metta, Cheryl Donegan, Aïda Ruilova | World is Sudden: Part II | Tusk Festival, Gateshead |
2016 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects | FRIEND, YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND... THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE | International Print Biennale | 2016 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Giles Bailey, Eleanor Wright, Simon Bayliss & Susie Green, Kathryn Elkin, Rene McBrearty, Terry | World is Sudden: Part I | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | 2016 | Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects |
⚬ | Basic House, Rachel Lancaster, Kathryn Barnett, Sophie Cooper, Midwich, Adam Denton, Chlorine, Thijs Geritz | Field | Online | 2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | John Kippin, Patrick Low, Danni Harper | Social Memory and the Landscape | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Luke Fowler & Mark Fell | To The Editor Of Amateur Photographer | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Jayne Dent, Cathy Garner, Simon Clowes | Underscore | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Joe Posset & Dook | Zine-making & Performance | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Olivia Dunbar | BOOKSHOP Instagram Residency | Online | 2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Peter Todd, Sebastian Buerkner, Stephen Sutcliffe, Mohsen Mousavi, Margaret Salmon, Tara Goudarzi, Nooshin Naficy, Amir Azar, Fereshteh Alamshah, Elika Zarei | Film Poems: Artists’ Films from Iran and UK | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Peter Roberts, Graeme Rigby, Ellin Hare, Annie Robson, Anisa George, Katja Roberts, Magnus Dennison | Today I'm With You | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | BOOKSHOP | BOOKSHOP | NGCA, Sunderland |
2015 | BOOKSHOP |
⚬ | Mariam Rezai | Approximation Closing Party | VAMOS Social!, Newcastle |
2015 | Approximation... |
⚬ | Nadia Terry et al, Peter Fryer | COOKING with SOUTH SHIELDS | South Shields | 2015 | Approximation... |
⚬ | Mario Pfeifer, Amira Gad, Luis Ospina & Carlos Mayolo, Harun Farocki | The Anthropological Gaze | BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead |
2015 | Approximation... |
⚬ | Mario Pfeifer | Approximation in the digital age to a humanity condemned to disappear | John Joyce Building, Gateshead |
2015 | Approximation... |
⚬ | Alia Syed, Adam Chodzko, Gail Pickering, Seamus Harahan, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Bedwyr Williams | The 2015 Jarman Award + Q&A with Bedwyr Williams | Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle |
2015 | The Jarman Award |
⚬ | Ursula Mayer & Alia Syed | Screening and Q&A | Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle |
2015 | The Jarman Award |
⚬ | Lucy Beech, Nicholas Brooks, Niels Bugge, Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Anita Delaney, Tom Lock, Richard Sides, Min Wei-Ting | Selected 5 | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2015 | The Jarman Award |
⚬ | Rhodri Davies, Bedwyr Williams, Ant Macari, Gummy Stumps, Zahnpasta Brothers, Enigmatic Storytellers of Berwick | Giff-Gaff | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | 2015 | Presents... |
⚬ | Henry Coombes, Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett, Cara Tolmie, Tim Etchells, Keith Farquhar, Josephine Flynn, Susie Green, Matthew Crawley | EXHIBITION | Workplace Foundation, Gateshead |
2015 | Presents... |
⚬ | Susie Green | EXHIBITION: Fluid Medium | Workplace Foundation, Gateshead |
2015 | Presents... |
⚬ | Tim Etchells | EXHIBITION: It’s moving from I to It – The Play | Workplace Foundation, Gateshead |
2015 | Presents... |
⚬ | Steven Claydon, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Sebastian Buerkner, Rachel Reupke, Redmond Entwistle, Laura Buckley, Stephen Sutcliffe, John Akomfrah, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Ursula Mayer | The 2014 Jarman Award Programme | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2014 | The Jarman Award |
⚬ | John Smith, Steven Claydon | Screenings + Q&A | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2014 | The Jarman Award |
⚬ | Rhodri Davies, Noize Choir, Hugh Metcalfe | GIG | St Peter Social Club, Newcastle |
2014 | Presents... |
⚬ | David Steans | Instructions for Unwelcome Tables | The Union Rooms, Newcastle |
2014 | Presents... |
⚬ | Lothar Götz | Presentation | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Fiona Jardine | Colour Like No Other | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | John Smith | The Black Tower | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan | DOES THE IT FIT | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Emma Hart, John Smith, Ed Atkins, Beatrice Gibson, Rachel Maclean, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Hannah Sawtell, Grace Schwindt, Jessica Warboys | The 2013 Jarman Awards Screening + Charlotte Prodger Q&A | Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle |
2013 | The Jarman Awards |
⚬ | Steina and Woody Vasulka, Jerome LOL, John Rafman, Adham Faramawy, Zoe Williams, Craig Mulholland, Olivia Dunbar, Richard Whitby, Jaakko Pallasvuo | Diamond Dust – A shifting grammar of originality | Edinburgh Art Festival | 2013 | Presents... |
⚬ | Carl Andre, Craig Dworkin, Eric Zboya, Gareth Long, Garry Neill Kennedy, Greville Worthington, Kate Briggs, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lawrence Weiner, Lucia della Paolera, Nick Thurston, Robert Fitterman, Simon Morris | iam with Greville Worthington: Learn To Read Differently | NGCA, Sunderland |
2013 | Presents... |
⚬ | Paul Becker | In Camera | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Jani Ruscica | Scene shifts, in six movements | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Paul Becker | Floor/Ceiling/Window/Wall: Draft Two | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Rubén Grilo | The Need for Speed | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Paul Becker | Floor/Ceiling/Window/Wall: Draft One | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2013 | Space Release |
⚬ | Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth | If You Can’t See My Mirrors, I Can’t See You | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Dean Kenning | Double Dip Depression | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Heather Phillipson | Bleurgh | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Chooc Ly Tan | In Space There is No Up or Down | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Keren Cytter | Avalanche | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Laura Harrington, Lee Patterson, Luke Fowler | Layerspace (expanded) | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Jesse Jones | The Struggle Against Ourselves | Stephenson Works, Newcastle | 2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Aurélien Froment | 9 Intervals | Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle |
2012 | Presents... |
⚬ | Emma Hart | TO DO | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | Space Release |
⚬ | Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Marcus Coates, Shezad Dawood, Benedict Drew, Nathaniel Mellors, James Richards, Ben Rivers, Aura Satz, Matt Stokes, Thomson & Craighead | The 2012 Jarman Award | The Northern Charter, Newcastle |
2012 | The Jarman Award |
⚬ | Richard Rigg | The Inhabitant of the Watchtower | A-Z West, Joshua Tree |
2012 – 2014 | Presents... |
⚬ | The ARKA Group | The Ocelli | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2012 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Mario Pfeifer | Yet Untitled [“Pieces of Nature”] | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2012 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Benedict Drew | The Persuaders | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | CIRCA Site |
⚬ | Martin Arnold, Manon de Boer, Ben Russell, John Smith | As Slow As Possible | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2012 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Ben Jeans Houghton | Black Cloud: further reading | Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle |
2012 | CIRCA Site |
⚬ | Clemens von Wedemeyer | Clemens von Wedemeyer | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2012 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Doug Fishbone | The Parallax View | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2011 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Heather Phillipson 8 Benedict Drew, Rhodri Davies, Emma Hart, Guy Sherwin, Lynn Loo, Kevin Atherton, John Adams, Darren Banks, Jon Bewley, Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett, Noel Clueit, David Critchley, Mat Fleming, Ken Gill, Richard Grayson, Tina Keane, John Kippin, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Stephen Partridge, Peter Todd, Maria Theodoraki, Cara Tolmie, Belinda Williams | Seeing in the Dark | Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle |
2011 | CIRCA Site |
⚬ | Eric Bainbridge | Video Show | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2011 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Ed Atkins, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Claire Hooper, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Torsten Lauschmann, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Clio Barnard, Corin Sworn, Imogen Stidworthy | The 2011 Jarman Awards | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2011 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Ed Atkins | Death Mask III / A Tumour | CIRCA Screen, Sunderland |
2011 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Paul Rooney | Thin Air | Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland |
2011 | CIRCA Screen |
⚬ | Aurélien Froment, Graham Gussin, Ben Jeans Houghton, Mark Lewis, Paul Rooney, Jane & Louise Wilson, Ming Wong | MOVEMENTS | NGCA Sunderland |
2011 | Presents... |
⚬ | Dan Holdsworth | Blackout 10 | High Level Parade, Gateshead |
2011 | CIRCA Site |
⚬ | Sarah Dobai, David Hall and Tony Sinden, Mark Lewis, Anne McGuire, Matthew Noel-Tod, Manuel Saiz, Erica Scourti, John Smith, Mark Wilcox | Recalling the Shots | Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle | 2010 | Presents... |
⚬ | Lu Chunsheng, Stuart Pearson Wright, Henry Coombes | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | Stephenson Works, Newcastle |
2010 | Presents... |
⚬ | Mark Neville | The Jump Films | AV Festival | 2010 | Presents... |
⚬ | Graham Dolphin, Berit Hummel, Mark Neville | TRINITY | Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland | 2009 | Presents... |