Yawk Yawk: Sculpture from Maningrida with guest artist Owen
Yalandja and Borroloola: Prints & Paintings from the Gulf of Carpentaria
with guest artists Nancy McDinny, Stewart Hoosan & Madeline Dirdi. To be
opened at 6.30pm by His Excellency, John Dauth, High Commissioner for Australia
on July 14. Running until August 27 at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, 2a Conway
Street, Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6BA
The Maremma Heads; new sculpture by Emily Young from her studio in the monastery of Santa Croce, in the Italian Maremma. At The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1 until 28 July. Www.faslondon.com
Robin & Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior.
The best work from the most celebrated British design couple of the post-war
era. From 15 July – 4 September at PM Gallery & House, Walpole Park,
Mattock Lane, London W5 5EQ. www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse
Michelangelo Pistoletto – The Mirror of Judgement – works by
the Italian conceptual artist at the Serpentine Gallery, with its 2011 pavilion
designed by Peter Zumthor on a garden theme – in Kensington Gardens, London W2
from 12 Jul to 17 Sep. www.serpentinegallery.org
The Victorian View, showing all the Victorian oil paintings
from the Museum’s collection hung in the way their original audience would have
seen them, complete with costumes of the period and Victorian décor. At Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery,
Civic Centre, Mount Pleasant, Royal Tunbridge Wells until 3 Sep. www.tunbridgewellsmuseum.org
Jerwood Makers Open –
an exhibition of new commissions by four artists working in the applied arts
and pushing the boundaries of their practice and chosen materials – Farah
Bandookwala, who creates high tech jewellery; Emmanuel Boos, who is fascinated
by ceramic glaze; Heike Brachlow, whose glass sculpture is based on balancing
toys; and Keith Harrison, who fuses clay, sound and electricity. At JVA, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street,
London SE1 from 13 July to 18 Aug.
www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
The Colour of Wood – an exhibition of contemporary fine
furniture by the Devon Furniture Makers Association displayed alongside
environmentally friendly wallpapers and paints by Little Greene, at RHS
Rosemoor Garden, Great Torrington, Devon from 16 to 31 July. 01271 859033
www.devonfurnituremakers.org.uk
Summer Mixed Exhibition at the Wendy J Levy Contemporary Art
Gallery, 17 Warburton Street, Didsbury, Manchester from 13 Jul to 27 Aug. www.wendyjlevy-art.com
Wonders of the Ancient World; Francois Fouquet’s Model
Masterpieces – a unique collection of models of the great buildings and
monuments of ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East, made by the exceptional
model maker and artist, at Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
London WC2 from 15 Jul to 23 Sep.
www.soane.org
Summer Exhibition at the Medici Gallery, including pieces by
Michael Alford, Noel Bensted, Richard W. Boardman, Sue Campion, Judith Green,
Dmitry Lisichenko, Dean Patman, Daniel Preece, Paul Slater, Maria Stcherbinina
& Tatiana Struchkova, at 5 Cork Street, London W1 from 12 Jul to 1
Sep. www.medicigallery.co.uk
Wild Thing – contemporary British artworks which place the
animal centre stage, including works by Georgia Hayes, Stephen West, David
Farrer, Nichola Theakston, Emrys Williams, Sian Zeng, Sophie Woodrow and
Charlotte Cory, at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Penglais,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales to 27 Aug.
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
Geoffrey Clarke RA – North by South -East – Sculpture,
Drawings, Paintings, Original Prints by this versatile artists, who has worked
in stained glass, silver and aluminum.
On display will be enamels, drawings, small scale sculpture, paintings,
mono prints and etchings. At Linton
Court Gallery, Duke Street, Settle, North Yorks from 19 Jul to 30 Aug. www.gavaganart.com
Modern & Contemporary British Art: a selling exhibition
of 60 works by 40 artists, including Elizabeth Blackadder RA, Maurice Cockrill
RA, Cecil Collins RA, Adrian Daintrey, Elisabeth Frink RA, Ceri House, Patrick
Hughes, Neil MacPherson, Bernard Meninsky, Dick Negus, William Nicholson, Eric
Rimmington, Susan Rosenberg, Alex Saunderson, Lizzie Sleight, Joan Stanton,
Graham Sutherland, Julian Trevelyan RA and Edward Wolfe RA, at The Millinery
Works, 85/7 Southgate Road, Islington, London N1 until 21 Aug. 020 7359 2019
Rotor – an inter-disciplinary ensemble of installations and
live works by award-winning artists based on ideas generated by dance, with
works by Sam Collins, E V Crowe, Angela de la Cruz, Siobhan Davies, Matteo
Fargion, Alexandra Hughes, Alice Oswald, Clare Twomey and Ben Tyers, at
Dovecot, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh until 16 Jul. www.siobhandavies.com/rotor
Thomas Ostenberg – sculptures at Plus One Gallery, 89-91
Pimlico Road, London SW1 until 6 Aug.
www.plusonegallery.com
Von Ribbentrop in St Ives: Art and War in the Last Resort –
an exhibition by painter, author and filmmaker Andrew Lanyon which explores the
remarkable intersections of art, history and everyday life in St Ives in the
years before the Second World War. It
includes paintings by Andrew and Peter Lanyon, Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson,
Christopher Wood and Naum Gabo, archival material, interactive models and
specially commissioned works by a number of artists. At Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge
from 16 Jul to 18 Sep. www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Patrick Hughes; 50 Years in Show Business – a major
retrospective by the best selling artist credited as being the godfather of the
UK surrealists. At Flowers, 82 Kingsland
Road, London E2 from 14 Jul to 3 Sep.
www.flowersgalleries.com
Guild of Aviation Artists: ‘Aviation Paintings of the Year’
– annual summer exhibition at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 from 19
to 24 Jul. www.gava.org.uk
CLOSING SOON
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, at the
V & A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 to 17th Jul. www.vam.ac.uk
See Country Life feature April 6th
Mind Full of Silver – summer exhibition focusing on 13
leading British silversmiths and exploring the process of the development of
their initial thoughts through to the creation of the final object, at
Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2 26 May to 16 Jul. www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk
Michael Landy: Art World Portraits – 12 drawings focusing on
sitters from the art world, many of whom played a significant role in the Young
British Artist movement of the 1990s. At the National Portrait Gallery, St.
Martin’s Place, London until 17 Jul.
www.npg.org.uk
Mervyn Peake: A Centenary Celebration at Pallant House
Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex to 17 Jul. www.pallant.org.uk
Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
– At V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 from 12 April – 17
July. www.vam.ac.uk
This Twittering World; contemporary painters celebrate T S
Eliot’s Four Quartets. Artists include:
Craig Barber, Julian Bell, Hugh Buchanan, Claudia Clare, Lydia Corbett, Steven
Hubbard, Philip Hughes, Lucy Raverat, Alain Senex, Julian Vilarrubi and Anna
Wimbledon. At Francis Kyle Gallery, 9
Maddox Street, London W1 to 21 Jul.
www.franciskylegallery.com
Charles Lutyens; Being in the World – Paintings, Drawings,
Sculptures, Mosaic at St Paul’s Church, Bow Common, Burdett Road, London E3
until 23 Jul. www.charleslutyens.co.uk
