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News 2013

An essay about Melanie Jackson's work, Parallel editing, multi-positionality and maximalism – cosmopolitan effects as explored in some art works by Melanie Jackson and Vivienne Dick, by Rachel Garfield is in Open Arts Journal - Issue 1, published by Department of Art History at The Open University. See http://openartsjournal.org/.

Recent graduates Dana Ariel, Seán Boylan, Motoko Ishibashi and Sungfeel Yun are on the longlist for New Sensations 2013. The New Sensations UK 2013 exhibition will take place in October 2013 at B1, Victoria House, London WC1B 4DA. See www.saatchionline.com.

Subject to Contract presents an overview of Carey Young’s works from 2003 to 2013, including essays by Martha Buskirk, Raphael Gygax, and Tirdad Zolghadr is published on 15 September 2013. The monograph is published by JRP | Ringier and is produced in association with Legal Fictions, Carey Young's solo show at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. See www.amazon.co.uk.

Lucy Beech, Jenna Bliss, Ren Garden, Michal Rubin, Marianna Simnett and Sophie Cundale are showing in 21st Century: Graduate Screening at Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ, at 7pm on Thursday 29 August 2013. See www.chisenhale.org.uk.

Congratulations to Senior Lecturer Jo Volley one of the winners of this year's Provost's Teaching Awards. The Awards were set up to celebrate the best of pedagogic prowess at UCL and to reward staff who are making outstanding contributions to the learning experience and success of our students. See www.ucl.ac.uk.

Larry Achiampong and Awesome Tapes From Africa founder Brian Shimkovitz will be in conversation about their recent projects and approaches to collecting, producing and presenting music from Africa at the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, at 6pm Friday 2nd August 2013.

Benedict Drew is showing The Onesie Cycle at Two Queens, 2 Queen Street, Leicester, LE1 1QW, from 9 - 31 August 2013. This coincides with a newly commissioned exhibition and online artwork at Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG, from 9 August - 7 September 2013. See www.2queens.com and www.phoenix.org.uk.

Sinta Tantra is showing The Eccentricity of Zero, a new sculpture to celebrate the work of female sculptors, marking the second year of the collaboration between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Royal British Society of Sculptors. The sculpture is on display in Napoleon Garden, Holland Park, London W8 6LU, from 20 May - 4 November 2013. See www.rbs.org.uk/exhibitions.

Ernesto Canovas, Yun Kyung Jeong, Alec Kronacker and Nadine Mahoney are showing in New British 2013 at Lloyd's Club 42 Crutched Friars, London EC3N 2AP, from 5 July - 12 September 2013. See www.lloydsclub.co.uk.

The Slade School of Fine Art is delighted to announce that Motoko Ishibashi and Mariana Simnett are recipients of this year's William Coldstream Memorial Prize. This is an annual purchase prize which enables UCL Art Museum to acquire work by Slade School of Fine Art Students, recognizing a student's particular excellence in any medium.

Artist's books by Oona Grimes and Sophie Lascelles, Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal (Connie Butler and Lauren Godfrey) and John Walters are on sale at KALEID 2013 at The Art Academy, Mermaid Court, 165A Borough High Street, London, SE1 1HR on Saturday 20th July, 11am-7pm. See www.kaleideditions.com/eshop/.