Collyer Bristow Student Award, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
This group show by recent graduates from Goldsmiths and Middlesex University is curated by Day + Gluckman and includes work by Middlesex University graduate Chris Alton, winner of the inaugural £2000 Collyer Bristow Student Award. Featuring an array of work including painting and photographs, the subject matter is often painfully personal, although it is sometimes viewed through hilarious snapshots of our world.
Until 28 January 2015, www.collyerbristow.com/art-gallery
Christopher Orr, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
This solo exhibition by London-based Scottish artist Christopher Orr features his superb oil paintings, watercolours and sketchbooks. The intriguing source material comes from a vast range of visual materials, including National Geographic magazines, scientific manuals, 1950s snaps, art historical images and Super 8 films.
Until 14 February 2015, www.ed.ac.uk
One Side To The Other, The Lowry, Salford
Opposites attract in this exhibition curated by dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Addressing themes including the spiritual and the grounded, doubt and certainty, light and dark, the show features sculpture, photography, painting and film by artists such as Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor.
Until 1 February 2015, www.thelowry.
The Event Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Between November and March a new ‘event sculpture’ is being presented every other Monday outside the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Lasting from a few seconds to several hours, the works encompass actions, objects, performance, moving image and ephemeral public proposals. This week (from 24-26 November) visitors can witness the making of Ceal Floyer’s Silent Movie. Responding to the Institute’s site and place in the city, the result will be projected inside the galleries next year.
Until 8 March 2015, www.henry-moore.
Rupert Hartley, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Continuing Bloc Projects’ series of temporary billboards, London-based artist Rupert Hartley has a created a piece using imagery from ‘blind’ internet searches, with each image printed over the previous one. Known for his temporary artworks made through a process of reconfiguring and reassembling found materials, with Blind Searches Hartley plays with the aesthetics of advertising and the internet to create a work that draws on the layered nature of both.
Until 21 December 2014, www.
Selections chosen by Jack Hutchinson
