Current Events 42

Current Events #42. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 42 of 2016.
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RWA Annual Open Exhibition 2016

9 October – 27 November 2016

This selected exhibition returns for its 164th year – includes painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, illustration and mixed media.

Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road
Clifton, Bristol
BS8 1PX

New Works: Christopher Cook and Mimei Thompson

19 October – 19 November 2016

Exhibition of recent works by Christopher Cook and Mimei Thompson in the downstairs project space. Private view: 18 October.

Art First
21 Eastcastle Street
London
W1W 8DD

The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth

1 October – 11 December 2016

An exhibition of work by Jamian Juliano–Villani – new large–scale paintings alongside never before exhibited sculptural installations.

Studio Voltaire
1a Nelson’s Row
London
SW4 7JR

Sad Boys and Cheeky Birds

21 October – 3 November 2016

Richard Heslop will be showing some of his iconic Sad Boy paintings and Sadie Hennessy has made some work in response to them. Facebook event page.

Plinth
17 Cliff Terrace
Cliftonville, Margate
CT9 1RU

Let us compare mythologies

October 5 – November 12 2016

An exhibition of collaborative works by Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, including work akin to the ‘exquisite corpse’ game of the surrealists, the two artists working onto each other’s work.

David Zwirner
24 Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EZ

Empire

13 October to 11 November 2016

Empire is David Wightman’s first solo exhibition with Long & Ryle and will feature over a dozen new landscape paintings.

Long & Ryle
4 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4PX

Silke Otto-Knapp

13 October – 23 December 2016

An exhibition of new paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp.

greengrassi
1a Kempsford Road
London
SE11 4NU

A Thousand Plateaus

4 October – 5 November 2016

A collection of prints and paintings by Cat Roissetter.

Brocket Gallery
16 Windmill Row
Kennington, London
SE11 5DW

Royal Photographic Society, International Photobook Exhibition

18-23 October 2016

The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain presents what is believed to be the first Open International Photobook Exhibition organised in the UK. Entries were mailed in from 155 entrants and 23 countries around the world, reflecting the expanding interest in the photobook form. The initiative for the exhibition was undertaken by volunteers from the Society’s Contemporary Group. Part of East London Photomonth.

• Winner: Hometowns, by John MacLean, UK (photobook dummy)
• Second: Entre, by Arnaldo Pappalardo, Brazil (photobook dummy)
• Third: Missing Buildings, by Thom and Beth Atkinson, UK (self-published)
• Honorable Mention: Five Days in Northumbria with Doris, by Jeff Hutchinson (artist book)
• A total of 25 entries are short-listed for exhibition

Private View: Thursday 20 October 6-9pm. There will be an accompanying ‘print with photobook exhibition’ by 14 invited RPS members.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

Drawing Attention: Rare Works on Paper 1400-1900

24 September 2016 − 3 January 2017

Spanning five centuries of superb draughtsmanship, this exhibition puts the spotlight on some exceptional but less well-known treasures from the Gallery’s drawings collection. Selected for their rarity, beauty and in some cases their quirkiness, many of these drawings have never been displayed before. The names may be unfamiliar, but the works speak for themselves.

Scottish National Gallery
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL

The Talking Lamp

Open Friday 21 October 6pm-late and by appointment 22-30 October 2016

Sebastian Burger, Laura Bygrave, Alex Crocker, Juliet Goodden, Ben Jamie, Kate Lyddon, Dominic Musa, Laurence Owen, Thom Trojanowski-Hobson

The Kennington Residency
243-245 Kennington Lane
London
SE11 5QU

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The image at the top is:

A painting in the Gunk World series
by Cat Roissetter who is showing in the Brocket Gallery project space.