Interview with Digital Artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham

American Artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham works predominately with painting and mixed media art, but also has a distinct digital photography style, unconventional bold imagery. We speak with him about his ongoing practice.

The Work of Nina Fowler

Nina Fowler has been shortlisted for prizes including The Jerwood Drawing, The BP Portrait and Longlisted for the The Aesthetica Art Prize. She is represented by Galerie Dukan and her work is included in private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Asia.

Sterling Ruby, Sunrise Sunset, Hauser & Wirth, NY

Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist, Sterling Ruby. Possessed of a profound material sensibility, Ruby’s art speaks in a language inspired by sub-cultural phenomena ranging from urban gangs, and prison systems, to craft and the history of quilt-making.

Walid El Masri, Cocoon, Ayyam Gallery, London

This solo exhibition by Paris-based Lebanese painter Walid El Masri reflects a departure from the artist’s ongoing Chair series. In this work an inanimate object provided a point of entry for meditative contemplations on life.

Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design

GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design is a pioneering institution bringing new insights into Russian art, design and culture. This summer GRAD presents Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, an exhibition examining the changing face of Soviet design from the 1917 Revolutions to Perestroika.

Jimmie Durham: Traces and Shiny Evidence, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London

For this new solo exhibition, Durham has created an installation that covers the entire gallery space of Parasol unit foundation. The ground floor display is a vivid explosion of industrialisation.

Kay Rosen, Galeri Zilberman

Istanbul’s Galeri Zilberman small but effective exhibition of Rosen’s work is well-timed; particularly so because Rosen’s close following of Istanbul’s Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 has provided the inspiration for the centrepiece to the show.

Insight into the Work of Dan Lane, Mechanica

Mechanica is a dark yet beautiful take on natural forms by mechanical intervention: an industrial version of life. Each piece is the result of months of searching for parts and features.

Tamsin Greig, Humour in Art, Unlock Art: What’s So Funny?

In Unlock Art: What’s So Funny? Tamsin Greig investigates how humour became central to many of the art movements of the past 100 years. The film examines how artists employed humour in their work to ridicule the status quo.

Drawn to the Real, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

This exhibition showcases five artists who put the medium of drawing at the centre of their practice. They explore issues of documentation, representation, scale and the process of drawing.

They Used to Call it the Moon, Baltic 39, Gateshead

This distinctly international exhibition, at Baltic’s sister gallery; Baltic39 (colloquially known as “B 3 9”), centres around such a rare shared subject, or more specifically “entity”: the moon.

Franz West, Where is my Eight?, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire

The Hepworth Wakefield presents its largest exhibition yet: an extensive survey of Austrian artist, Franz West’s work, collated and developed with the artist before his death in July 2012.

Review of Kenneth Clark, Looking for Civilisation, Tate

Tate Britain’s exhibition is organised in a roughly chronological sequence, with rooms taken over by themes reflecting Kenneth Clark’s life and work – his supremely privileged upbringing and career as Director of the National Gallery.

Interview: Artist Rob Ryan

SohoCreate arrives in London this June for the first time. The event brings together the country’s top creative minds, ensuring various disciplines and talents are celebrated in today’s competitive, revenue driven economy.

Elizabeth Neel, The People, The Park, The Ornament, Pilar Corrias

Elizabeth Neel focuses on the concepts of shifting familiarity and the nature of abstraction. At Pilar Corrias, she presents new visual studies in controlled chaos that perpetuate this interest.

Stephen Hall: A Brit from Abroad, Storm Fine Arts

New York-based artist Stephen Hall is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Born in Scotland, the painter has spent many years refining his talent and now produces spectacularly bold and provocative pieces.

John Wynne and Yoonjin Yung, The Flux, And I, Gazelli Art House

Gazelli Art House’s focuses on the idea that the only thing constant in life is change. Feeding into this concept are the works by John Wynne and Yoonjin Jung that explore one’s inner “movement” in relation to their surrounding.

Michel François, Pieces of Evidence, Ikon Gallery

The gold plated peanuts found in Ecosystem were rumoured to have been inspected by customs for fears that they contained illegal contraband – a fitting anecdote for Michel François’ first major survey in a British gallery.

Richard Long, Lisson Gallery

Richard Long is one of Britain’s leading conceptual artists. His work explores interventions in the landscape, tracking and documenting alterations to the terrain made by his footsteps alone or gathered from the materials of the place.

Saskia Olde Wolbers, Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows, 87 Hackford Road, London

Saskia Olde Wolbers is known for her short, narrative videos. For Yes, These Eyes are the Windows, she treats 87 Hackford Road as a ready-made set and works with theatre director Lu Kemp and sound designer Elena Peña.