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Academicians' round-up

The latest news on the art and architecture of the Royal Academicians, from RA Magazine Spring 2012

Painters/Printers

Norman Ackroyd's etchings are on show at the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mifield (12 April-19 May)

Gillian Ayres shows works on paper at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (until 21 March)

John Bellany has his 13th solo show with Beaux Arts London (18 April-19 May)

Frank Bowling shows ‘The Poured Paintings 1974-76’ at Tate Britain, London (30 April–4 Nov). He shows new work at Spanierman Modern, New York (29 March–28 April)

Jeffery Camp's show 'Petalled Figures' is at Art Space Gallery, London (20 April-18 May)

Eileen Cooper shows at the Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon (30 March–17 April)

Tacita Dean has a solo show at the Norton Museum of Art, Florida, US (until 6 May)

Anne Desmet's ‘Olympic Metamorphoses’ exhibition of prints is at Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing (4–27 May)

Tracey Emin has been appointed the Eranda Professor of Drawing for the Royal Academy Schools

David Hockney has been appointed to the Order of Merit in the Queen’s New Years Honours

Albert Irvin celebrates his 90th birthday with an exhibition at Clifford Chance, London (19 March–20 April). He also has a solo show at Borris House, as part of the Barrow River Arts Festival exhibition, County Carlow, Ireland (2–7 March)

Gary Hume’s show ‘Flashback’ is at Leeds Art Gallery (until 15 April)

Bill Jacklin shows work at Marlborough Gallery, New York (until 17 March)

Tess Jaray is to design the floor of the interior of St Mary’s Church, Nottingham

Christopher Le Brun’s is the new President of the Royal Academy. His gold coin commemorates the London 2012 Olympics and is available from the Royal Mint. An interview with Le Brun, will be published in RA Magazine’s Summer issue.

Mali Morris shows works on canvas and paper at Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (11 March-24 June)

Chris Orr's solo show 'LithORRgraphy' is in the Tennant Gallery at the Royal Academy until 20 May

Tom Phillips’s A Humument is published in its fifth edition in May (Thames & Hudson)

Fiona Rae has been appointed Professor of Painting at the RA Schools.

Philip Sutton shows works at Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey (3-27 May)

Gillian Wearing has a solo show at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (until 6 May). Nominations for her sculpture, A Real Birmingham Family remain open until 1 April

Tom Phillips and Anthony Caro have designed kilo coins for the Royal Mint to commemorate the London 2012 Olympics

Sculptors

Phyllida Barlow's show ‘Bad Copies’ is at the Henry Moore Institute, Sculpture Study Galleries, Leeds (12 April–17 June). She has been awarded the 2012 Aachen Art Prize which includes a solo show at the Ludwig Forum for International Art (13 May–26 Aug)

Anthony Caro shows at Chatsworth, Derbyshire (28 March–1 July). 'Anthony Caro: Works from the ‘House’ Series' is at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (17 March–1 July). 'Anthony Caro in Jubilee Park' Canary Wharf, London (12 March–25 May) and 'Anthony Caro: Reliefs and Standing Sculptures' shows at New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury (21 April– 24 June)

John Carter has solo shows at Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern, Germany (29 March–16 May) and Southampton City Art Gallery (until 13 May)

Ann Christopher shows in ‘The Force and Form of Memory’ at the St Fergus Gallery, Wick, Caithness in Scotland (17 March–14 April)

Stephen Cox has made a wall-sculpture for the church of St Michael and All Angels, Edenham, Lincs

Tony Cragg has solo shows at CAFAM Bejing (2 March–15 April) and Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (30 March–12 Aug)

Richard Deacon shows his sculpture series New Bases 2.0 at the Grand Theatre in Angers, France (26–30 April) in connection with the production Un Terrain Encore Vague for which Deacon has made the set. For more news on his work see opposite

Kenneth Draper shows at the Quest Gallery, Bath (10 March–21 April)

Antony Gormley has a solo show at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (until 6 May). His work Horizon Field is in Vorarlberg, Austria (until 29 April), and a new work Horizon Field Hamburg is at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (27 April–9 Sep). Flare II is in Salisbury Cathedral (until 2 April, 2012) and Witness has been permanently installed in the British Library piazza, London

Anish Kapoor's mobile concert hall for northern Japan has begun its event programme

Phillip King's show ‘Sculpture at Glemham Hall’, is at Glemham Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (6 May–30 Sep). His work Darwin is installed outside the Yusuf Hamied Centre at Christ’s College Cambridge and Darwin 2 at the Cass Foundation, Goodwood

David Mach’s Die Harder is at Southwark Cathedral in London (until 6 April)

David Nash's show ‘Black and Red: Bronze and Wood’ is at Galerie Lelong, Paris (until 17 March)

Richard Wilson has been made Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools. His sculpture Hang on a Minute Lads, I’ve Got a Great Idea is the 2012 Rooftop commission for the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex (1 May–1 Sep)

Architects

David Chipperfield has been made Director of the Architecture Sector for the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, held in Venice (29 Aug–25 Nov). Hepworth Wakefield has been awarded Best Public Building at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2012. Chipperfield has won the Deutscher Architekturpreis 2011 for the Neues Museum, Berlin

Trevor Dannatt is completing designs for the Black Dog bookshop in King’s Cross, London

Norman Foster and Spencer de Grey are building the world’s first private spaceport: The New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building, run by Virgin. The firm has also proposed its Thames Hub vision which includes an estuary airport, a new Thames barrier and an orbital rail route around London

Piers Gough’s firm CZWG has completed the Canada Water Library, London

Nicholas Grimshaw has won the contract to refurbish the Dulwich College Science Building. He has also been selected to design the Wimbledon 2020 masterplan

Zaha Hadid's exhibition ‘Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion’ is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, US (until 25 March)

Michael Manser’s architecture firm has designed an adaptable flat for elderly people which combines design with ease of use for less able-bodied people. The firm is now also working on an affordable housing scheme in Whitby, and the Hilton hotel in Wembley.

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