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This week’s recommended shows include Ian Kirkpatrick’s exploration of ancient and modern mythology at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, an exploration of British art over the last 150 years at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, plus Mandy Barker’s images highlighting the current global crisis of marine plastic pollution at Impressions Gallery, Bradford.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Arundel, Norwich, Felixstowe, Lancaster and Newcastle upon Tyne – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.

Dartmoor-based artists Tabatha Andrews and Tim Bolton will collaborate with former Jaeger seamstresses for their sculptural project Make It Up, which draws on the port city’s textile and naval history.

An open letter from the Creative Industries Federation is calling on the government to address a crisis in creative education in English schools.

This week’s recommended shows include a survey of rave culture at the Saatchi Gallery, London, and a collection of ceramics at Manchester Craft and Design Centre marking the 200-year anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.

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

The Scottish Contemporary Art Network and Federation of Scottish Theatre is asking those working in the arts in Scotland to share their views on impact in a newly issued survey.

The new fund from Jerwood Arts awards nearly £185,000 of grants to enable a ‘step-change’ in the practice and profile of those involved.

This week’s recommended shows include Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer at Tate Modern, Mick Peter’s playful sculptural installation at Baltic, and at Firstsite in Colchester Mark Titchner’s posters developed with asylum seekers and refugees.

Taking place at Bold Tendencies, London, the event will explore the break many women choose (or are forced to take) and how this can affect career trajectory.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions in Skegness, Worthing, London, Rothesay on the Isle of Bute and Ginals in the Occitanie region of southern France – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.

The seventh edition of the annual exhibition showcasing work by recent graduates from art colleges across the West Midlands is presented in partnership with the second Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, which opens in October.

This week’s recommended shows include multidisciplinary artist Aliyah Hussain’s feminist science fiction-influenced work at HOME, Manchester, plus a career spanning survey of Bridget Riley at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

Artist and co-director of Salford-based organisation Paradise Works part of cohort to receive bespoke professional development opportunity that seeks to develop leaders from across a wide range of cultural disciplines and sectors.

This week’s selection includes exhibitions in Findhorn near Inverness, Glasgow, Newhaven, Stourbridge and Leeds – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.

The Turner Prize winner and Royal Academian will help select three prize winners from 80 exhibiting artists, with the first prize offering a solo exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.

The organisation which was founded by two painters in 2013 has announced the call out for the latest edition of its Contemporary British Painting Prize.

The winner of the award supporting emerging graduates will receive a bursary of £2,000, plus bespoke mentoring for 12 months.

This week’s recommended shows include an exploration of Stanley Kubrick’s design process at the Design Museum in London, plus James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ moving image work at Spike Island, Bristol.

As part of our 2019 bursaries programme, a-n is offering one-to-one support to Artist and Arts Organiser members through a series of coaching sessions with a coach accredited by the a-n Visual Arts Coaching Course, or mentoring with one of our visual arts mentors.

The annual festival’s Commissions Programme includes works that reflect a mood of uncertainty currently engulfing UK politics while this year’s Platform: 2019 exhibition of early career artists based in Scotland explores ideas of embellishment, identity, sustainability and fandom.

a-n and Castlefield Gallery announce the eight artists who will participate in their partnership project, the Artists’ International Delegation 2019 to Denmark.

a-n is inviting applications for its Writer Development Programme 2019-20, which will run from October 2019 to March 2020.

a-n’s CEO Julie Lomax will be joined by artists including Kevin Hunt and Emily Speed to explore the precarious nature of work in the field of contemporary art at a discussion event hosted by FACT in Liverpool on 30 July 2019.

This week’s recommended shows include Manon de Boer’s moving image work at LUX, London and an exploration of how creative spaces helps shape artists at Fabrica, Brighton.