Academicians' round-up

The latest news on the art and architecture of the Royal Academicians, from RA Magazine Winter 2010

Painters/printmakers

Norman Ackroyd’s solo show ‘St Kilda Revisited, the Galápagos Islands & Random Journeys 2009-2010’ is at the North House Gallery, Manningtree (29 Jan–26 Feb, 2011)

Diana Armfield and Bernard Dunstan contribute to the NEAC Annual Show (26 Nov–5 Dec) at the Mall Galleries, London

Elizabeth Blackadder exhibits recent works at Browse and Darby, London (17 Nov-9 Dec)

‘One and a Half Corners’, a solo show by Stephen Chambers is at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London (17 Nov–11 Dec)

Eileen Cooper exhibits collages for the first time in her 'Alayrac Series' in the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends (3 Dec-16 March, 2011)

Eileen Cooper and David Mach both show at the Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (until 30 Jan, 2011)

Landscape paintings by Fred Cuming are at the Adam Gallery, Bath (20 Nov–4 Dec)

Tacita Dean has a solo show at the Common Guild, Glasgow (20 Nov-5 Feb). She also contributes to ‘La carte d’après Nature’ at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (until 22 Feb, 2011)

Tracey Emin’s solo show ‘Praying to a different God’ is at LoveArt, Sydney, Australia (until 31 March, 2011). She shows ‘The Curated Shelf’ at Louis Vuitton, New Bond Street, London (until 30 Nov). She contributes to ‘MOVE’ at the Hayward Gallery, London (until 9 Jan, 2011)

David Hockney’s show ‘Fleur Fraîches’ is at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris (until 30 Jan, 2011)

Ken Howard is appointed an OBE for service to art on 25 Nov and his show ‘An Artist’s Odyssey’ is at the Richard Green Gallery, London (26 Jan–12 Feb, 2011).

'Albert Irvin RA: Inextinguishable' is at Gimpel Fils, London (until 15 Jan, 2011, closed 23 Dec–5 Jan). He also exhibits at Kings Place, London (3–24 Dec) in association with Advanced Graphics, London

Christopher Le Brun shows at Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, US (19 Nov–18 Dec). His work is in ‘Watercolour in Britain’ at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (until 5 Dec), then at Tate Britain, London (15 Feb–14 Aug, 2011)

Leonard McComb has made a portrait of Charles Saumarez Smith

Ian McKeever’s show ‘The Black Paintings, a Retrospective’ is at the Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder, Denmark (29 Jan–25 April, 2011)

Mali Morris shows in the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends, at the RA (until 1 Dec) and contributes to ‘Fade Away’ at the Transition Gallery, London (3–24 Dec)

‘Chris Orr: Social Surrealist’ is at the Galway Museum, Galway, Ireland (3 Dec–3 Jan, 2011)

Cornelia Parker has created artwork for the Save the Arts campaign

Tom Phillips has made an iPhone app for his book A Humument

Terry Setch takes part in ‘Changing Landscape’, at Oriel y Parc Landscape Gallery, Wales (until 3 April, 2011)

Philip Sutton exhibits at the Cork Street Gallery (6–11 Dec) then Richmond Hill Gallery, both London (13 Dec–16 Jan, 2011)

Gillian Wearing shows in ‘GSK Contemporary’ (2 Dec–30 Jan, 2011). Her new film, Self Made was shown at the London Film festival in October

Anthony Whishaw shows in the autumn exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (until 12 Dec)

Basil Beattie, Fred Cuming and Anthony Eyton show in ‘Spoilt for Choice’ at Kings Place Gallery, London (3–24 Dec)

Eileen Cooper, Tracey Emin, Sonia Lawson, Humphrey Ocean and Anthony Whishaw contribute to ‘400 Women’ in Shoreditch Town Hall, London (until 30 Nov)

Sculptors

‘Anthony Caro: Jewellery’ is at the New Art Centre, near Salisbury (27 Nov–30 Jan, 2011). See page 52 for an interview

Ann Christopher’s solo show ‘Marks on the Edge of Space’ is at Pangolin London (until 4 Dec)

Tony Cragg has solo shows at Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy (until 9 Jan, 2011), Galeria Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden (until 24 Dec). He shows work in the Düsseldorf Quadriennale (until 16 Jan, 2011).

Richard Deacon’s retrospective ‘The Missing Part’ is at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover (23 Jan–15 May, 2011)

Antony Gormley’s book One and Other has been published (£35, Jonathan Cape). His permanent installation Exposure is now on show in Lelystad, Holland. His show ‘Drawing Space’ is at Macro, Rome, Italy (until 6 Feb, 2011)

Nigel Hall has a solo show of his drawings and scukpture at the City Arts Centre, Oklahoma (until 18 Dec). He also shows at Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homberg, Germany (until 30 Nov).

'Anish Kapoor: Delhi Mumbai' is at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India (28 Nov-27 Feb) and Mehboob Studios, Bandra, Mumbai, India (30 Nov-16 Jan, 2011). He also shows in Kensington Gardens at the Serpentine Gallery, London (until 13 March, 2011)

David Nash’s retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park is on show until 27 Feb, 2011

Richard Wilson contributes to the book Hg2: A Hedonist’s Guide to Art (£15, Hg2)

Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Phillip King, Richard Long, Bill Tucker and Bill Woodrow all contribute to ‘Modern British Sculpture’ at the Royal Academy (22 Jan–7 April, 2011).

Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley and Tom Phillips contribute to the new book What Makes a Masterpiece? (£24.95, Thames & Hudson)

Architects

David Chipperfield has won the RIBA Gold Medal 2011 for lifetime achievement, as well as the ‘Grand DAI Award for Building Culture 2010’ from the German Architects and Engineers Association (DAI). His show ‘Form Matters’ is at the Arsenali Medici, Pisa (until 16 Jan, 2011)

'CRAB by the Sea:Peter Cook and a sideways look at Architecture' is at Text+Work Gallery, the Arts University College, Bournemouth (15 Nov-7 Jan, 2011). He also has a show at the Inax Gallery in Tokyo (15–28 Dec)

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? a film about Norman Foster has been released in Spain. His Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, is now open, as well as the Faustino Winery in the Rioja region of Spain

Zaha Hadid's first pubic buildingin London, the Evelyn Grace Acdemy in Brixton has been completed. Hadid has also won the Stirling Prize for Architecture for her design for the MAXXI Centre for Contemporary Art in Florence.

A new monograph 'Building Ideas: MJP Architects' (£35, Right Angle Architects) charts the development of Richard MacCormac's practice through themed essays. The firm has recently completed Kendrew Quadrangle, St John’s College, Oxford and the Maggie’s Centre in Cheltenham.