Galloway’s work focuses on experiencing nature in paradoxical ways. His large scale, detailed photographs show natural elements as incredibly present, yet also outside our expectations.

The Design Museum has announced the nominations for the Designs of the Year 2014. This platform for cutting-edge innovation and original talent showcases the best in global design.

Supermodel Helena Christensen stars in Vs. Magazine’s short fashion film, The Double. Christensen is the guest-editor on the newly released issue featuring Julianne Moore, Emilia Clarke and Stacy Martin, amongst others.

Several variants of abstraction are investigated in an excellent exhibition of drawings, Abstract Drawing, curated by Richard Deacon, the current Last Words artist in Aesthetica. The show at London’s Drawing Room features 57 works.

Sarah Maple’s God is a Feminist is an exploration of identity, feminism and religion. Aesthetica speaks to Maple about her controversial work and her thoughts on contemporary feminism.

There is no better way to escape the panic of Central London than slipping through the courtyards of Bloomsbury into SOAS’s Brunei Gallery. It’s worth a visit for the Japanese roof garden alone.

Painting Now at Tate celebrates a selection of five contemporary painters, each displaying a synopsis of their unique stylistic vision. Participating artists include Tomma Abts and Gillian Carnegie.

ARCOMadrid opens 19 February and brings together the best art from artists working in Spain and internationally. The fair is for contemporary art professionals, art-lovers and the general public.

Opening on 20 March, Thirteen marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and is the first time the pieces are on display outside of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Samuel Harriman’s work consists primarily of light, however, by using painterly processes, he combines the mediums of installation and painting to intonate the point that the use of light is a form of painting.

Currently on display at Ikon Gallery is David Tremlett’s 3 Drawing Rooms. The exhibition deploys a combination of pastel pigments in paint and engine grease, applied directly to the walls.

Running until 23 March, Gracjana Rejmer-Canovas’ Colour Into Liquid Air, encapsulates the artist’s energetic practice, who is a recent graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art.

Carbon 14: Climate is Culture, the centrepiece of a four-month festival of the same name at the Royal Ontario Musuem, says much about what we’re all talking about these days – the weather.

Stephen Hall, an artist who has been working in New York for many years, was recently part of a featured article in the New York Times and a photo essay by photographer Michael Mundy.

Boopsedaisy started to focus on photography as a way to release all the creative roadblocks she was finding on her film sets. The results from the first night’s shoot surprised her.

A key organisation for promoting the work of emerging artists in Manchester, Castlefield Gallery’s latest exhibition, Radical Conservatism, has been curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv from London.

Dance Machines – From Léger to Kraftwerk focuses on the modernist fascination with machines and mechanised life, and how the band Kraftwerk, has explored the relationship between man and machine in various multidisciplinary projects.

Haunted with ghostly shapes and a sense of eeriness, the new oil paintings and watercolours of acclaimed Irish artist Ciarán Murphy are on display at the Taymour Grahne Gallery until 22 January.

Opening on 10 January, an exhibition of work by Thomas Struth will be on display at Marian Goodman Gallery. Struth’s recent series investigates the complexity of techno-scientific spaces throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Mass media and new technologies have been influencing art as early as the 19th century. More recently with the Internet, technology and the media have increased the accessibility of experiencing art.