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Photography show at Bath's bo.lee gallery closes 28 April. To coincide with Bath in Fashion, bo.lee gallery presents work from acclaimed underwater fashion photographer Zena Holloway whose portfolio includes commissions from Dazed & Confus...

‘The Art of Design: Kenwood in the Kitchen’ is the new, free exhibition opening on 28 April 2012 at The Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking, Surrey. It will explore the success of the Woking-born company that has transformed the kitchen. ...

Sculptor Sean Henry has announced that he will contribute to The Crisis Commission Gala Auction at Christies, King Street, London on the evening of Thursday 3rd May 2012. This is an unrivalled and exclusive opportunity to purchase new works by some of ...

From 19–21 April, Buckingham Palace was lit up by thousands of self portraits, by children from across the UK, projected on to the façade of the palace to form a montage image of HM The Queen. Launched on Thursday, 19 April at 8.30pm by Blu...

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, University of East Anglia is showing four exhibitions simultaneously, and entrance is FREE. See Matthew Sillence’s review in our next, May, issue. The shows cover the development of Art Nouveau, a photography ...

Artist Natasha Law turns restaurants into art galleries Zizzi Italian restaurants offer undiscovered artists a unique canvas... their plates Artist Natasha Law has launched a nationwide initiative to discover the best, freshest...

Deadline for submissions: 21 June 2012, 12 noon Building on the success of the first Bite exhibition, this year, a second Bite is being mounted this year, showcasing all that is best about printmaking in Britain today. It provides artists with...

Google and the Saatchi Gallery have announced the top 10 finalists of the Google Photography Prize, a global competition to find the photography stars of the future. The Prize received nearly 20,000 entries from students based in 146 countries, and 10 f...

Room 32, National Portrait Gallery, London From 17 April until 16 September 2012 Admission fre e The first solo display of photographs by Peter Rand will open at the National Portrait Gallery on 17 April. The display of 10 portraits w...

The first Cotswold Art & Antique Dealers’ Association Fair to be held at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England OX20 1PP Friday 20 to Sunday 22 April 2012 The first-ever Cotswold Art & Antique Dealers’ Associ...

If you want really beautiful paper for an upmarket brochure, corporate stationery and the like, you go to GF Smith, who have been selling inspiring paper for over a century. Now the company is hosting a five-day event in London, alongside a number...

Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different than the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color . Alex Webb...

The Ben Uri reckons that this has to be the most exciting and inspiring art exhibition in any London gallery or museum this April. The gallery is celebrating 250 schoolchildren’s remarkable talent and creativity. On show together are pupil...

Visitors to National Museum Cardiff have a unique opportunity to see one of the most important paintings of the Italian Renaissance this springtime. Titian’s painting Diana and Actaeon will be coming to Cardiff on a tour from the National Galle...

Professor Lynda Nead (Birkbeck), 'Stilling the Punch: Boxing, Violence and the Photographic Image' Monday 30 April 2012, 7.30 p.m. The Monarch, Camden
40–42 Chalk Farm Road
, Greater London NW1 8BG
 Free to a...

2,000 square-foot terrazzo map gives visitors rare bird's eye view of Colorado in new History Colorado Center New history museum to show art work by Steven Weitzman The impact of Colorado’s history, the beauty of art and ...

Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, London, 5 April – 6 May 2012 What better place in the world to celebrate the season of growth and renewal this year than
 Hackney Wick and Fish Island with a direct view of the Olympic Stadium? Spr...

Two University of Lincoln academics have been selected to be resident artists at the Grace Exhibition space in New York to develop their new work Oral/Response which they will perform at this year’s Bristol Live Open Platform (BLOP) festival later...

Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art 17 and 18 April 2012 Sponsored by Zurich Dubai – Early highlights consigned for this spring’s Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art sale ...

This exhibition is due to end on Saturday 14 April.
 

 William McKeown was born in Tyrone, Ireland in 1962, and was living and working in Edinburgh at the time of his death on 25 October 2011.

In the 16 years since he first exhibited ...

Goldsmiths' Debuts Preview Thursday 5 April Friday 6–Tuesday 10 April : 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Red Bull Studio: 155–171 Tooley Street, London Bridge, SE1 2JP Red Bull Studio and Goldsmiths University u...