On until  Sun 11 March 2012
Shiba Gallery (14)

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Graphite, the stuff inside pencils, is the subject of this exhibition.  The artist can use graphite for a huge range of drawing effects. On view are drawings from four centuries exploring the use of graphite.

Graphite is the first in a series, Grey Matters, which sets out to explore the impact of the greyscale on the artistic imagination.

Go to website for more information and to download free ebook.  http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/article.html?3097

Grey Matters: Fitzwilliam Cambridge

Mark Leckey: Work & Leisure

Friday 17 February 2012 – Sunday 18 March 2012
Manchester Art Gallery
FREE
Manchester Art Gallery’s new collaborative programming relationship with London’s Serpentine Gallery launches this February with the opening of a major exhibition from Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey.

See website for more details    http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions/index.php?itemID=86

Mark Leckey: Work and Leisure

Margaret Gregory RWA: Portrait of an Artist

16 February – 4 March 2012

Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX

Margaret Gregory was a poet and painter, and an active member of the RWA. A year after her death in 2011, her son, musician Will Gregory, is presenting a retrospective exhibition of her paintings and drawings.

Go to  http://www.rwa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2012/02/exhibitions-margaret-gregory/

Margaret Gregory RWA

for more details

Quentin Blake – As large as life
12 January 2012 – 15 April 2012  Foundling Museum London

Quentin Blake’s illustrations have been used to decorate the walls of 4  hospitals in the UK and France the exhibition features sixty of these works.

Quentin Blake:As Large as Life exhibition

Go to    http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/view/quentin-blake-as-large-as-life/  for more details.

There is also a FREE  As Large As Life  app available at  http://www.artfinder.com/app/quentin-blake-as-large-as-life/

Jeremy Hutchison
Err

14 January 2012 – 12 May 2012

Chinese Arts Centre

Market Buildings
Thomas Street
Manchester
M4 1EU

In January 2011, Jeremy Hutchison sent an email to factories all over the world. He wanted to know what happens when you lodge an error in the ‘smooth wheels of globalisation’.

Err features objects made my factory workers with an error of their own choice.

Ladder - Jeremy Hutchison Err

see website for more info

http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/residencies/first-step/jeremy-hutchison/

http://www.bristol-street-art.co.uk/street-art-blog/category/banksy/  Good blog on .. well,  what it says on the spray can … Street art in Bristol. No more info needed. Visit it today.

Bristol Street Art Blog

A Village Lost and Found

Jan 8-March 4  2012

Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX

Brian May, of Queen fame , and photo-historian, Elena Vidal, have revived a renowned series of 59 photographs produced by a master of Victorian stereoscopic photography, Thomas Richard Williams. The pictures leap into glorious 3D, viewed in the new focusing stereoscope, which May has designed and produced, to bring the stereos to life.

The result is a powerfully atmospheric and touching set of photographs.

For more info let your mouse do the fandango to  http://www.rwa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2012/02/exhibitions-a-village-lost-and-found/

THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE
A series of exhibitions that looks at how artists engage with the built environment and how artists influence the world around us.

Exhibitions include a fascinating 3D structure designed by award winning architect Will Alsop, video work from acclaimed film makers Harrison and Wood, suspended sculptural forms from Heather and Ivan Morrison and photography from Andy Day and Rick Davies.

27 January to 20 May 2012

THE PUBLIC
New Street, West Bromwich
West Midlands B70 7PG

FOR MORE INFO se the website   http://www.thepublic.com/exhibitions/art-architecture

The Art of Architecture -The public

Artists in Residence 2011

21 Jan 2012 – 25 Feb 2012

PA Gallery, Trongate 103  Glasgow  G1 5HD

Admission: Free

The exhibition marks Project Ability’s Residency Programme 2011, set up in 2010 to support both Project Ability and Scottish based artists by providing time, space and facilities in which to concentrate on artistic development in a supportive and engaging environment. The selected artists were resident for short and intense working periods lasting one month exploring individual practices and integrating within Project Ability’s collaborative community.

See the website for more details     http://www.project-ability.co.uk/exhibitions/residency-

Project Ability - Artists in Residence