3rd August − 3rd November 2013

‘No Foreign Lands’ is Doig’s first major exhibition in the country of his birth, where he left when he was only two. The exhibition showcases works created during the past ten years, much of which were done in whilst in Trinidad. Following in the line of great colourists such as Gauguin, Matisse, Bonnard and Edward Hopper, Doig creates rich textured worlds, often featuring tropical subject matter, painted with an expressive and sensuous palette on a monumental scale.

For more info, please visit the Scottish National Gallery

The Agostino Arrivabene “To Pathei Mathos” retrospective exhibition at the Panorama Museum in Badfrankenhausen, Germany is composed of 125 works, mostly paintings (miniature to large) and drawings, etchings and sketchbooks. During the years he has developed a series of symbolic, mythologic themes and characters (life and death, light and darkness, body and soul, Pandora, Orpheus, Athena, Lucifer etc.) trying to sublimate his own tragic life experiences into a creative and sharable path. The result is a fantastic and magical trip in which personal nightmares and eternal feelings can live side by side. The title of the exhibition is a Greek phrase that means truth and knowledge through pain and suffering.

With a strong classical and italian background, all influences and inspirations from ancient and present masters are clearly and sincerely visible in the progress of his activity, from the strong fascination for the symbolism of William Blake, Gustave Moreau and Ernst Fuchs in his earlier work, through Odd Nerdrum and the nordic art environment.

Images by Agostino Arrivabene and text by David Molesky. (Via)

20th July – 2nd October 2013

‘The Way to Beachy Head’ celebrates the Camp’s 90th year and a body of work inspired by the landscape of coastal Sussex, particularly the dramatic chalk coastline where the South Downs meets the sea. Liz Gilmore, Director of the Jerwood Gallery, said ‘We are thrilled to be celebrating Jeffery Camp’s 90th year and to reappraise one of Britain’s most accomplished artists through a body of work inspired by the sea, shore and fields of Sussex and particularly of Beachy Head, one of his favourite subjects’.

Jeffery Camp was born in East Anglia in 1923. He studied at Lowestoft and Ipswich Art Schools, followed by Edinburgh College of Art in 1941. He taught at Chelsea School of Art in 1960-61 and went on to teach at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1963 to 1988. Camp has been an RA since 1984 and in 1988, had a major retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts followed by retrospective exhibitions at South London Gallery and the Serpentine.

For more info, please visit the Jerwood Gallery

20 July 2013 – 22 September 2013

This major exhibition brings together over 150 contemporary and historic artworks that explore how the deep has been imagined through time and across cultures. Sea monsters, sirens, sperm whales, giant squids, octopi, submarines, drowned sailors and shipwrecks are all portrayed here by many of art history’s “greats” JMW Turner, Odilon Redon, Hokusai, Barbara Hepworth and Oskar Kokoshka among them. Steve Claydon, Wangechi Mutu, Juergen Teller, Alex Bag, Christian Holstad and Mikhail Karikis are some of the many celebrated contemporary artists amongst whose oceanic – inspired artworks are shown here too.

The imaginary oceans these artworks explore represent both the limits of our knowledge and the crossing of existential thresholds. Oceans are places of metamorphosis where “we suffer a sea change into something rich and strange”, according to Shakespeare in the Tempest. Our wild imaginings about the ocean aren’t simply escapist. The ocean is the keeper of political histories that continually resurface in the present day. Ocean myths both ancient and contemporary have been shaped by conquest and colonialism, and by the tide of gender politics too.

For more info, please visit the Nottingham Contemporary

26th July – 29th September 2013

This major survey of work by Swedish artist Jockum Nordström (b.1963) brings together collages, graphite drawings and architectural sculptures, representing the breadth of his work from the 1990s to the most recent pieces made especially for the exhibition. The title All I have Learned and Forgotten Again harks back to the wisdom and magic of childhood, a lament of the lost innocence that gives way to the demands of an adult world.

A simple charm and naivety runs throughout Nordström’s work, yet it is not without inner complexity: His characters, whether they are riding horses, sailing boats, making love or playing music, are constantly in action. But as the scenes unfold, they reveal imagery of a strange, sinister, at times even violent, nature.

For more info, please visit the Camden Arts Centre

The “soundsuit” is a wearable sculpture, believed to ‘hold transformative powers, which can psychologically transport its wearer to a realm of fantasy beyond the limitations of the human body’. In Cave’s new show, visitors can see his signature furry, floral suits, some fashioning tree branch structures. As well as examples of his new work, which plays with a galactic theme, where the ‘soundsuits’ evolves and appear to belong to metallic, glittering, future super race.

‘Sojourn’ is on view through to September 22. Images courtesy of the Denver Art Museum. (Via)

27th July − 3rd November 2013

In this major summer exhibition, visitors will get the chance to discover how witches and witchcraft have been depicted by artists over the past 500 years, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya and William Blake, plus pieces by 20th century artists such as Paula Rego and Kiki Smith. Through 16th and 17th century prints and drawings, learn how the advent of the printing press allowed artists and writers to share ideas, myths and fears about witches from country to country.

For more info, please visit the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art