Roger Hiorns, The Hepworth, Wakefield
Turner Prize-nominated artist Roger Hiorns exhibits his entire body of Youth works for the first time in this inaugural exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield’s new contemporary art space. Hiorns has filled the space – located in a historic mill next to the main gallery site – with found objects including street benches, jet and car engines and stainless steel preparation tables. Visitors to the exhibition can see these objects ‘activated’ at set times throughout the day by the presence of a naked youth, a small fire and a simple sequence of actions.
Until 3 November, www.hepworthwakefield.org/thecalder
Sara Barker, Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston; Mary Mary, Glasgow
Now in its final week, Patterns – Glasgow-based sculptor Sara Barker’s Edinburgh Art Festival commission at Jupiter Artland, near Edinburgh – is the first time she has worked outdoors. Surrounded by woodland, her glass pavilion is perched on top of a low concrete plinth, encircled and intersected by fragile forms in brass, aluminium and steel. Over in Glasgow, Mary Mary hosts a series of Barker’s quietly seductive floor and wall-based pieces in a new show, The Things That are Solid, Absorbed and Still.
Jupiter Artland, until 15 September; Mary Mary, until 26 October, www.marymarygallery.co.uk
Doug Fishbone and Friends: Adventureland Golf, QUAD, Derby
Doug Fishbone has transformed the QUAD gallery into a crazy golf-styled course consisting of nine holes, each designed by some of the UK’s most celebrated contemporary artists, including Jake and Dinos Chapman, David Shrigley, Gary Webb, Brian Griffiths, Jonathan Allen, Pete Fowler, Ian Monroe, Zatorski and Zatorski, and Doug Fishbone himself. These artist-designed holes range from statements on politics and life and death, to fun challenges.
Until 15 September, www.derbyquad.co.uk
The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing, Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall, Cardiff
As part of World Stage Design 2013, this week sees an ambitious concert performance by artist Joseph Young at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing is a six-movement ‘noise opera’; a satire that charts the rise of a revolutionary middle class as it struggles to regain control of its neighbourhood from a mythical Zionist cabal of global banking corporations. A story of gentrification, anti-semitism and austerity, it draws parallels between the current financial crisis and the political turmoils of the 1930s.
The Ballad of Skinny Lattes…, 14 September; WSD 2013 continues until 15 September, www.wsd2013.com
Connecting Worlds, UBM in collaboration with The Drawing Room, London
Ideas of community and the individual’s place within it are also the focus the Drawing Room’s new exhibition Connecting Worlds, at UBM’s London headquarters building. The wide variety of different work includes painting, drawing, photography and installation, exploring a diversity of cultures from a global perspective. Artists featured include: Michael Armitage, Marisol Malatesta, Liz Murray, Frank Pudney, Paula Roush and Lucia Vera.
Until 14 March 2014, drawingroom.org.uk
Selections chosen by Jack Hutchinson and Chris Sharratt
