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This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Portsmouth, Penryn, Worthing and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.

The award from National Lottery Heritage Fund activates a grant of almost £1m from Arts Council England, which will help transform historic Islington Mill into a 21st century community art space.

Ahead of their collaborative group exhibition ‘Beating Time’, which opens at ARB, Cambridge, later this week, Jack Hutchinson spoke to artists Alison Critchlow, Miranda Boulton, and Una D’Aragona who have all participated in Turps Art School’s Correspondence Course. They discuss the benefits of the programme to rural-based artists and how it offers an alternative to courses run by traditional art education institutions.

Selected artists Silvia Rosi and Theo Simpson each received £10,000 to produce a new body of work for exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, plus a production fund of £5,000 and high profile mentoring support from an international panel of experts. Jack Hutchinson attended the launch of the exhibition and met the artists.