20th Jun – 24th Jun 2013

Falmouth University is showcasing an exhibition over fifty up-and-coming photographers from the BA Photography course. Questioning everything from art theory to the social status quo, f-Lux photographers push boundaries and seek to create engaging, impacting and relevant work; designed to launch them from their degree at Falmouth.

The figures in Chloe Rosser’s work are photographed in a contorted fashion, the body becomes inhuman. It is a mindless mass of flesh, both intriguing and repelling us. Here, what should be intimately familiar is transformed into an unfamiliar sculpture. The work is an unsettling exploration into the human condition and our alienation from our own bodies.

See more photographs by Chloe Rosser

21st Jun – 5th Jul 2013

The name Foxes and Hounds is derived from a childhood game I used to play with friends. One group of kids would go and hide in the dark, while the other group had to find and tag them, gathering members as they progressed until the last man (fox) was standing. We played for hours, sometimes all night. It was part scary, part exhilarating.

I chose the name for the exhibition because it conjures up strong memories of nostalgia. Most of the work in the exhibition is autobiographical and uses images from my past, drawing upon my childhood through to more recent times. Collecting and preserving imagery is important to me and by recreating these images in various ways in my paintings, i attempt to understand and preserve my memories. The act of defacing the imagery makes it more important to me, more significant and the amalgamation of several images together often then suggests a new narrative. Much of the work draws upon growing up in Middlesbrough, an industrial northern town, and how this has shaped my outlook on the way I see things today.

See more paintings by Dan Cimmermann

12th June – 16th June 2013

Lucy will be displaying some of her new paintings with the Long and Ryle Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead, where 113 galleries will be exhibiting a huge array of contemporary art, from emerging artists to established names.

Lucy’s paintings draw inspiration from many sources including animals, wilderness, journeys, memories, imagination and dreams. Working freely and intuitively with paints and inks, she allows secret worlds to reveal themselves. Creating comforting images familiar to children’s illustrations, they also have an unsettling feeling, as if something darker may lurk beneath.

7th June – 27th July

Nina Fowler is displaying her drawing titled ‘Bill’ (featured top) in group show ‘In Dreams’ at The Cob Gallery  The show will feature works of the most exciting emergent artists, including Kate Mccgwire (left) Rebecca Stevenson (right) alongside an archive of established works; magnifying dreams through an expansive variety of medias. Piecing together lesser-known perspectives on the nature of dreams and the visual language they offer.

The gallery will be transformed into an immersive installation, a labyrinth within which the viewer will be guided through different sleep states and the act of dreaming. Alongside the gallery installation, a pop-up shop on Camden high street will explore the effect of lucid dreaming, heightened by hallucinogenics on the Beat generation, and new approaches to visual media. Visitors will also have the option to be involved in sleep experiments.

6th Jun – 27th Jun 2013

FIpsi will be exhibiting a group of classically inspired portraits and sketches. Using a centuries-old method, she combines her technique and the relationship with her sitters to revive an old art form within a modern society. Rough sketches drafted from her imagination often derive from these classical foundations.

See more portraits from Fipsi Seilern

30th May to 30th July 2013

The faithful transcriber of reality – emerging artist Eleanor Cunningham takes photography to a new age. Her Images hold fascinating traces of physical gestures due to her unique photographic techniques. ‘Nonna’s Window’ is one of four works on show at Fairly Square.

Fairly Square is London’s first fair trade bar and cafe which is becoming an inviting social hub for all, especially ethically-minded individuals and groups, holding a programme of topical ethical discussion events, literature and art events, along with music, poetry and movie nights.

Fairly Square can be found at 51 Red Lion Street in Holborn, London. A chance to meet the artist will be held at the venue on the 30th May, 7 pm – late.

Landscape with with Lady bugs oil, arcylic, chalk on canvas, 66 x 81 cm, 2013

25th May –  29th May 2013

The primary focus in my art practice has been that of evoking, through a visual medium, the sense of fantasy, which is naturally inherent in human beings. I’m especially interested in the notion of unconscious memories and creating imaginary worlds. I try to visualize a mindscape consisting of various creatures with stories that are suggestive to the world of fantasy.

I see the possibility of finding connections in previous art history with my own contemporary practice. I would like to produce a fantasy based surrealistic view of the real world by combining historical painting traditions with my own inner imaginary world.

Landscape with Cones, Landscape with two eggs and Landscape with Samar’s pomegranate oil, acrylic, chalk on canvas, 30 x 30 – 25 x 25 – 30 x 30 cm, 2013

Hyunjeong’s paintings are on show at Central Saint Martins, The Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA

For more info, please visit Central Saint Martins MA Show

9th May – 24th May 2013

Melodie will be showing her work at the Mall Galleries. With some 200 portraits on show this is the Britain’s largest exhibition of recent portraits in diverse styles with a fascinating array of celebrities and lesser-known sitters. The show will also feature shortlisted works from SELF, the major new art competition which pushes the boundaries of self-portraiture.

See more from Melodie Cook

29th April – 31st May 2013

The works presented in this exhibition can be read as an articulation of the uncertainty and irreconcilable antagonisms inherent in our existence. They offer a critical interrogation of western culture’s beliefs and values, and an exploration of the conflicted territory between such opposing concepts as: faith and doubt, reality and fantasy, the enduring and the transient, and physical desire versus spiritual longing.

Alibone appropriates images and text from film, magazines, pornography, and other cultural ephemera, setting them adrift from their original contextual moorings. Meaning and metaphor are re-introduced through a process of loss and retrieval, of creation and destruction, enacted within each painting.

For more info, please visit the Reading Room

27th April to 18th May

Sally will being showing two of her paintings, Uttered very Softly and Wish I was made of Stainless Steel at the Lion & Lamb Gallery along side artists Tom Benson, Catherine Hughes, James Lowe and John Chilver, who also curated the show. The Lion & Lamb gallery is situated within a friendly typical East London pub and promotes contemporary painting, inviting artists to curate shows.