Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, KT1 2QJ
8 February – 31 March 2012

Graphic designer Daniel Eatock works across a wide range of formats, and his latest show at Kingston University looks at unexpected connections between seemingly random objects.  The exhibition includes both photographs, and sculptural objects.

Gallery visitors will be invited to participate in aspects of the production process; the exhibition content evolving continually as the original objects are employed, and re-employed, in the development of the final works.

For more information, please visit the Stanley Picker Gallery website.

British artist David Shrigley is best known for his humourous drawings that make witty and wry observations on everyday life.  This exhibition, his first major survey show in London, will cover the full range of Shrigley’s diverse practice, including photography, books, sculpture, animation, painting and music.

Please see the exhibition website for more details.

It is titled Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation, Guest Editor: Jeffrey Skoller

Prof Dr Suzanne Buchan, Professor of Animation Aesthetics at UCA and Director of the UCA Animation Research Centre, is editior of the journal.

It is available online at http://anm.sagepub.com, or via the UCA Library Journal portal

Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation reflects the current border crossings in animation and documentary studies in which the experimental spirit of the films themselves are pushing the boundaries of scholarship into new realms of thought and aesthetic experience. The issue argues for the animated documentary as a radical cinematic form with the potential to enliven – reanimate – older forms by lifting them out of worn out epistemes and denaturalizing their often clichéd and moribund cinematic forms. The issue features cutting edge critical work by a range of emerging and well-established documentary, animation and experimental film scholars and makers, in an attempt to understand the ways this unsettling mix of non-realist and live action imagery makes meanings and importantly why this hybrid form of documentary animation has become aesthetically and politically necessary in this particular cultural moment” (Jeffrey Skoller)

Quentin Blake – As large as life presents recent work by the illustrator created for four hospitals in the UK and France and designed to have a therapeutic effect on their residents.

This exhibition of over sixty works, draws from four series’ that were created for a children’s hospital, a maternity hospital, young people with eating disorders and older patients with mental health issues.

Please visit the Foundling Museum website for further details.

Still Searching was launched on the 15th January 2012, with Bernd Stiegler, the German photo historian and theorist, started the blog by writing about the topic of imperfection in photography.  Future contributors will include Hilde van Gelder and Geoffrey Batchen.

Mascalls Gallery, Mascalls School, Paddock Wood, Kent TN12 6LT
Until 18 February 2012
Free

Mascalls Gallery is hosting an exhibition of political cartoons collected by Jeffrey Archer.  The collection includes all the great names of political cartoon history from Gillray to David Low, Ronald Searle to Ralph Steadman.
The collection has never been seen in public before this exhibition which provides an amusing and satirical look at political life across three centuries.

- Lis Rhodes

Since the 1970s, Lis Rhodes has been making radical and experimental films that challenge the viewer to reconsider film as a medium of communication and the presentation of image, language and sound. This exhibition, which takes its title from Lis Rhodes’s text “Dissonance and Disturbance”, presents films that encompass performance, photography, composition, writing and political commentary.

Films throughout Lis Rhodes’ career will be presented at the ICA, from Dresden Dynamo (1972) and Light Reading (1978), to more recent works such as the Hang on a Minute series (1985), A Cold Draft (1988), In the Kettle (2010) and Whitehall (2011).

For further details visit the ICA website.

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The Guardian also featured a slideshow of images from the book, which you can view here.