WORK by a Turner Prize nominee, a room filled with A4- size paintings and a hypochrondriac called Cynthia all feature in the Bluecoat’s latest exhibition.

Named 4x4, it is the first time the gallery space has been used to host four separate shows, with pieces ranging from painting and sculpture to video installation.

Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio, who was nominated for the 2003 Turner Prize, has brought two works to the city centre gallery, each exploring the idea of drawing in a space. Revons d’Or is a bronze cast of a tree bearing holes, made by a woodpecker, through which she has threaded red rope.

This fills the space above, like a child’s wax crayon drawing. Her second work, Untitled, 2009, is a piece of macramé which winds through a sterile room, part shroud, part intricate spider’s web.

Colin Darke and David Mabb, who met as undergraduates of Goldsmiths College in 1977, share a gallery space with a pair of intersecting works considering the concept of commodity.

Darke spent four years creating The Capital Paintings – 480 A4-sized paintings of random objects, from product packaging to ticket stubs. Mabb’s Rhythm 69 comprises 70 paintings incorporating a book of wallpaper designs by 19th- century designer and activist William Morris, over-painted with a storyboard by avant-garde film-maker Hans Richter.

“I had two criteria for choosing the items,” explains Darke. “They had to be a commodity and I had to try not to repeat objects.

“The canvases become less biographical as they go on because people started to give me things to use. Now that I’ve finished them, I still sometimes find myself eyeing up objects that would have been good for the work.”

The final two pieces are Shana Moulton’s films of a fictional hypochrondriac, and a billboard-sized etching by David Osbaldeston.

FOUR separate shows in 4x4, The Bluecoat, until May 10.