Academicians' round up
The latest news on the art and architecture of the Royal Academicians, from RA Magazine Summer 2013
Painters/Printers
Norman Ackroyd’s
solo show, ‘The Furthest Lands – A Journey round the British Isles’, is at Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex (until 23 June)
Diana Armfield
shows in the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London (10-22 June)
Gillian Ayres
shows work from 1986-2011 at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh (until 1 June) then the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (15 June–15 Sep)
Tony Bevan
shows recent paintings at the Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia (until 1 June)
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, shows work by Elizabeth Blackadder
(2 Aug–4 Sep)
Michael Craig-Martin
has a solo show at Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (until 1 Sep). He contributes to the Art Collection show at the Glyndebourne Festival (until 25 Aug)
Tacita Dean
has been appointed OBE for services to British art overseas. She is leading workshops organised by the Botin Foundation at Villa Iris, Santander, Spain (1-12 July)
Anne Desmet
shows work at the Museo della Stampa, Piedmont, Italy (10 Aug–15 Sep). Her prizewinning print is on show at the 9th International Miniature Print Biennale at the Center for Contemporary Prints, Connecticut, US (2 June–1 Sep)
Tracey Emin
contributes to ‘Munch by Others’ at the Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway (8 June–8 Sep). She shows at Lehmann Maupin, New York (until 22 June)
Anthony Eyton’s
solo show is at Browse & Darby, London (until 7 June)
Anthony Green
has a solo show at the John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos (8-29 June)
Bill Jacklin
shows new work at Marlborough Fine Art, London (5-29 June)
Michael Landy’s
‘Four Walls’ is at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (until 16 June)
Christopher Le Brun
reads at Ledbury Poetry Festival (7 July) and selects work for the Ludlow Open (25 July–11 Aug)
Humphrey Ocean
has painted the Dulwich Picture Gallery Education Department’s new Artmobile for the outreach programme
Grayson Perry’s
tapestry series ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’ (2012) is at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden (29 June–29 Sep)
Tom Phillips’s
A Humument is on show in ‘Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera’ at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass, US (until 31 Jan, 2014). Phillips is also a speaker at a conference on A Humument at Birkbeck, Keynes Library, London (13 July). He has recently designed a new 50p coin to commemorate the Britten centenary
Barbara Rae
shows prints at the Dundas Gallery, Edinburgh (7–25 Aug) and her show ‘Passing Time’ is at Adam Gallery in London (28 May–17 June; below) and Bath, (22 June–17 July). She also shows at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh (20 July–6 Aug)
Fiona Rae’s
solo show ‘Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century’ is at the Towner, Eastbourne (until 23 June)
Sean Scully
has solo shows at at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy (until 9 June) and at Dublin City Gallery, Ireland (until 9 June)
Elizabeth Blackadder,
David Hockney
and David Remfry
contribute to ‘40 Years of Fine Art’ at the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (11 June–17 Aug)
Diana Armfield
and Bernard Dunstan
show in the Richmond Hill Gallery Summer Exhibition (20 June–18 Aug)
Tacita Dean,
Tracey Emin
and Gillian Wearing
participate in ‘Besser scheitern: Film + Video’ at Hamburger Kunsthalle (until 11 Aug)
Jock McFadyen
and Richard Wilson
take part in ‘Estuary’ at the Museum of London (until 27 Oct)
Mali Morris,
Allen Jones
and Maurice Cockrill
show in ‘Pop and Abstract’ at the National Museum Cardiff, Wales (until 1 Sep)
Sculptors
Phyllida Barlow
contributes to ‘Peekskill Project V’ at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (until 28 July), and ‘Yes Naturally’ at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (until 1 Sep)
Antony Gormley
shows at the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (until 16 July) and Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (until 16 July)
Nigel Hall’s
sculpture Bigger Bite is now at the Cambridge University Law Faculty’s Sidgwick site, with his work on show in Churchill College, Cambridge (until 2 June). His sculpture Crossing is installed outside Barnsley Town Hall in mid-June
Anish Kapoor
stars in ‘Revolutionary Light: Blake/Turner/Kapoor’ at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (5 July–1 Sep)
Phillip King’s
solo show is at the Consortium in Dijon, France (until 16 June)
Richard Long
shows at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (until 16 June) and his solo show ‘Richard Long: Prints Along the Way 1972-2012’ is at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (until 30 June) then Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (15 July–20 Oct). He takes part in ‘Walk on: 40 Years of Art Walking from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff’ at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
(1 June–31 Aug)
David Nash’s
solo show ‘Thirteen Reds’ is at Château Chaumont-sur-Loire, France (until 11 Nov)
The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester shows Alison Wilding’s
sculpture Deep Water (1989)
Tony Cragg
and Antony Gormley
contribute to ‘Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain’ at Southampton Art Gallery (until 4 Aug)
Cornelia Parker
and Richard Wilson
show in the Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (10 Aug–27 Oct)
Architects
Ron Arad’s
show ‘In Reverse’ is at the Design Museum in Holon, Israel (19 June–19 Oct)
David Chipperfield’s
Saint Louis Art Museum East Building, Missouri, US is unveiled (29-30 June)
Norman Foster
and Spencer de Grey’s
firm have proposed to build an airport on the Isle of Grain in the Thames estuary, with the aim of reducing environmental, noise and security problems on the route over London to Heathrow. Their ‘club nautique’ pavilions for Marseille harbour have been inaugurated, as has the ME Hotel in Aldwych, London. The show ‘Moving: Norman Foster on Art: Carré d’Art’ is at Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art, France (until 15 Sep)
Nicholas Grimshaw’s
firm will build a new science building at Dulwich College, London, as well as the 90-storey Aspire Tower in Sydney
Zaha Hadid
has won the 41st Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. Her firm has begun work on the Changsha Meixi Lake International Culture & Arts Centre in Changsha, China, which includes a theatre and art museum. Her Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan opened in May
Ian Ritchie’s
plan for a floating village at London’s Royal Docks has been approved
Chris Wilkinson’s
Worthing Splashpoint Leisure Centre opens on 20 June.