Academicians' round-up

The latest news on the art and architecture of the Royal Academicians, from RA Magazine Autumn 2011

Painters/Printers

Norman Ackroyd's solo show 'Norman Ackroyd: Recent Etchings' is on at the Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk (19–24 Nov). He also shows 'Galápagos' at The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Basil Beattie will be showing large-scale paintings in a major retrospective, ‘Onward and Upward. Twenty-five Years of Work (1986 – 2011)’, at James Hyman Fine Art, London (18 Nov–21 Jan 2012)

Tony Bevan’s ‘Self-Portraits’ is at the National Portrait Gallery, London (until 11 Dec)

Elizabeth Blackadder’s show is at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh (until 2 Jan, 2012)

Frank Bowling shows work in the Tennant Room at the RA (until 23 Oct)

Maurice Cockrill's 'Works on Paper from Five Decades' is in the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (27 Sep–30 Nov)

Michael Craig-Martin's work Hammer is at Spencer House, London (until 31 Oct)

Tacita Dean's Unilever commission is at Tate Modern (11 Oct–11 March, 2012). Her solo show ‘More of Less’ is at the Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin (10 Sep–5 Nov)

Anne Desmet is a new RA. She recently showed two of her printed collages at the BITE National Open Print Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, winning the Intaglio Printmaker Prize for one and the Society of Wood Engravers’ Award for the other.

Tracey Emin has created work for a site specific installation called ‘The Vanishing Lake’ at the White Cube, 6 Fitzroy Square, London (7 Oct–12 Nov, closed 19–23 Oct)

Peter Freeth shows recent etchings in Westminster and Chelsea Hospital atrium (9 Oct–5 Nov)

Anthony Green has solo shows at Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow (1–25 Oct), and Chenderit School, Banbury (9 Nov–15 Dec)

David Hockney’s painting 'Le Parc des Sources', Vichy (1970) is at Chatsworth House (until 31 Oct) and Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970-71) is on show at Dulwich Picture Gallery (1 Nov–4 Dec)

Paul Huxley has made a wall drawing for Charing Cross Hospital, London (until 25 Nov)

Timothy Hyman is a new RA.

Tess Jaray is working on interior and exterior paving for residential apartments in Fitzrovia, London

Allen Jones’s solo show ‘In Stages’ is at the Wetterling Gallery, Gothenberg (1 Sep–mid Oct)

Lisa Milroy’s installation Act One, Seen Too (2011) is at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham (6–18 Sep)

Prints and paintings by Humphrey Ocean are on show at Jesus College, Cambridge (10 Oct–20 Dec)

Hughie O’Donoghue’s exhibition of paintings, ‘The Road’, is at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (6 Oct–12 Dec)

Grayson Perry's solo show 'Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman' is at the British Museum, London (6 Oct–19 Feb, 2012)

Barbara Rae’s solo show is at Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey (29 Sep–23 Oct)

Fiona Rae is exhibiting in the following group exhibitions: 'Making a Scene', Southampton City Art Gallery, (until Jan 2012), 'Without / Beyond Borders', Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece, (until 31 Oct, 2011) and 'Between Film and Art', Kunsthalle Emden, Germany and Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin, Germany, (until 4 Dec, 2011).

Nominations are invited for models for Gillian Wearing’s sculpture, A Real Birmingham Family (Until 1 April, 2012)

Anthony Whishaw takes part in a two-man show at Gallery 28, London (31 Oct–5 Nov), then at Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey (7–20 Nov).

Chris Orr, Basil Beattie, Fred Cuming, Anthony Eyton and Albert Irvin will be showing works at the New York Print Fair (3-6 Nov, 2011).

Sculptors

Phyllida Barlow is a new RA. Her solo show 'Phyllida Barlow: RIG' is at Hauser & Wirth Piccadilly, London (2 Sep–22 Oct). She will be in Conversation with Dr. Nicholas Cullinan on Wednesday 5 October at 6.30pm. The event will be hosted by RA Schools in the Geological Society, Lecture Hall, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG. There will also be a panel discussion on 'RIG', her current installation at Hauser and Wirth, with the artist, Tamar Garb and Briony Fer on Monday, 17th October at 6pm in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL, London/UK.

Anthony Caro shows at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (until 30 Oct) and the Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (30 Sep–30 Oct). For his tribute to John Hoyland see the RA Magazine Blog.

John Carter’s solo show ‘Between Dimensions’ is at Galerie La Ligne, Zürich (15 Oct–26 Nov)

Stephen Cox’s solo show ‘The Meaning of Stone’ is at Ludlow Castle, Ludlow (25 Sep–6 Nov) and ‘Meaning in Drawing’ is at the Drawing Gallery, Walford, Shropshire, (28 Sep–5 Nov)

Tony Cragg’s solo show is at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (until 6 Nov)

Richard Deacon’s new work, Upper Strut, is at the new Louis Vuitton shop in Singapore

Antony Gormley's ‘Still Standing’ is at the Hermitage, St Petersburg, (23 Sep–15 Jan, 2012). His show ‘Two States’ is at Harewood House, Leeds (until 30 Oct). He has donated £160,000 from the sale of Another Time XIII (2010) towards the purchase and restoration of G.F. Watts’ studio and house in Compton, Surrey

Nigel Hall's solo show, 'Artists’ Laboratory 03: Nigel Hall', will be in the RA Weston Rooms, Royal Academy of Arts, London, (7 Sep–23 Oct)

Anish Kapoor has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale Award for sculpture. His work Sky Mirror (2010) is in Aviva Court, London (until Jan, 2012)

Richard Long's work will be on show in 'Artist Rooms: Richard Long', Abbot Hall (21 Oct–17 Dec)

David Mach’s show ‘Precious Light’ is at the Edinburgh City Art Centre (until 16 Oct)

John Maine’s wall relief for Green Park Tube station is unveiled in October. His show ‘Artists’ Laboratory 04’ is at the RA (9 Nov–18 Dec). He also shows at Pitmedden Garden, Ellon, Scotland (until 30 Sep)

David Nash shows works at the Oriel Mostyn gallery in Llandudno, (24 Sep–12 Nov)

Cornelia Parker curates works from the Government Art Collection in a show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (16 Sep–4 Dec)

Alison Wilding's solo show 'How the Land Lies’ is at Roche Court, near Salisbury (10 Sep–6 Nov)

Architects

Will Alsop has completed the Gao Yang International Cruise Terminal in Shanghai

David Chipperfield has won the Mies van der Rohe Award. His installation Two Lines is at the Southbank Centre, London (17 Sep–16 Oct) as part of the London Design Festival

Norman Foster’s skyscraper in Dubai ‘The Index’ has won the Best Tall Building in the Middle East and Africa Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Nicholas Grimshaw is to redesign London Bridge Station

'Zaha Hadid, une architecture’ is at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (until 30 Oct). Hadid has completed the 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre, and her Evelyn Grace Academy, London has won a RIBA Award

Eva Jiricna’s Cultural Centre in Zlin is nominated for the Grand Prix prize in the Czech Republic

Richard Rogers is designing a walkway to run over the roof of the O2 Centre, London

Chris Wilkinson’s firm Wilkinson Eyre has won the Best Tall Building in Asia and Australasia Award, for its Guangzhou International Finance Centre. Tectonics, a book on his design for the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences building, is published in October (£24.95, Black Dog). His Humanities and Maths buildings at Queen Mary University, London, open this autumn.

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