ARTIST ROOMS Martin Creed at Tate Liverpool 24 February – 27 May 2012

ARTIST ROOMS returns to Tate Liverpool in 2012, displaying seven important new works recently donated by Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed (b 1968) jointly to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the ARTIST ROOMS Collection.  Creed’s work was not previously represented in ARTIST ROOMS and he is the first new contemporary artist to join the Collection since it was established in 2008. The artist has...

Edward Burra ends 19 February at Pallant House Gallery

The Edward Burra exhibition at the wonderful Pallant House Gallery ends 19 February. So get down to Chichester you art lovers and enjoy the beautiful and eccentric work of a great British artist. Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex,  presents the first major show for over 25 years of the work of Edward Burra (1905 – 1976), one of the most individual and celebrated British artists of the twentieth...

No Jokes Please; We’re Italian: New Works by Stefano Mezzaroma

The Italian Cultural Institute in London will host an exhibition of work by contemporary, Milan-based artist Stefano Mezzaroma. The Minister of Culture in Rome has endorsed the exhibition, entitled No Jokes Please; We’re Italian, to promote to a British audience the best in Italian contemporary culture. His work blends fine and urban art techniques while weaving a social commentary which embodies the notion of the...

Lygia Pape Magnetized Space ends soon at the Serpentine Gallery

Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was a leading Brazilian artist whose work brought together formal rigour and daring experimentation. In her own words, she explained her approach: ‘My concern is always invention. I always want to invent a new language that’s different for me and for others, too… I want to discover new things. Because, to me, art is a way of knowing the world… to see how the world...

Andrea Zittel – Lay of My Land opens 10 February at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is showing a major exhibition of the work by the American artist Andrea Zittel. Born in Escondido, California in 1965, Zittel received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988 and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. She began her practice in New York in the early 1990s and established A-Z East, a small house in Brooklyn...

The Last Day of the Basil Beattie exhibition: Onward and Upward -Twenty-five years of work (1986 – 2011) at James Hyman Fine Art

James Hyman Fine Art is delighted to mark our representation of Basil Beattie by staging a major exhibition of large-scale paintings that span the last twenty-five years. Building from his early engagement with Abstract Expressionism, in recent decades Beattie has increasingly adopted a system of pictographic signs; doorways, stairways, archways, ziggurats, corners and long tunnels. Despite their allusions to...

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture – Royal Academy of Arts, London

In January 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will present the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. Through a selection of works spanning fifty years, this new body of work will be placed in the context of...

Barry Kirk ‘Frying Tomatoes’ Prints from 1956 – 1965 at the Emma Mason Gallery

Born in Kent in 1933, Barry Kirk studied at Canterbury School of Art and The Royal College of Art where he was taught by Julian Trevelyan. Kirk went on to teach at Guildford School of Art and then Canterbury School of Art, where he later became principal of the College. Kirk began to explore printmaking at the Royal College of Art and continued making prints from the mid 1950s through to the late 1960s. Kirk’s...

The Sculpture Show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art announces definitive look at 110 years of Sculpture including works from Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas through to Ron Mueck and 2011 Turner Prize winner, Martin Boyce. A major new exhibition, which will use the extraordinary collection at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to explore the development of sculpture over the last 110 years, will open in Edinburgh this week....

A place in the country: Six artists from Denmark at the Oriel Davies Gallery

‘A place in the country’ / ‘Et sted på landet’ brings together six artists from Denmark whose work connects with rurality and life at the margins. Some live and work in West and North Jutland. Dominated by sea and sky, this remote wind-swept region on Denmark’s western coast is a land of sand dunes and birds, low buildings and wind farms. Karen Havskov Jensen returned to the countryside...