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The road to Barjac, the hilltop citadel where Kiefer has his living and working space, is long and serpentine if you approach it from Nimes. Nimes is the ideal starting-point for this journey, its antiquity making it an iconographical primer for many of Kiefer's preoccupations. Among its Roman remains, the amphitheatre in particular pays homage to a painter whose architectural spaces often remind us of the fatal legacy of the imperial idea, with its double dream of order and barbarism. But it is not this that makes me queasy so much as the lurching drive through the vineyards, in a business-class Mercedes piloted by an air-brushed lady chauffeur. I want to throw up, but am conscious that in this milieu, using a Mercedes as a vomitorium would brand me as distinctly vulgar, if not an absolute barbarian.

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On 4 October the British Museum in London will open an exhibition of major works by leading contemporary British artists paying tribute to the cultural significance of sculpture across the ages. In addition to works by Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck and Marc Quinn, Tim Noble and Sue Webster will be showing a new phantasmagoric silhouette work inspired by the surroundings of the British Museum's world-renowned Egyptian Sculpture Gallery. Dafydd Jones visited the artists in their Shoreditch studio (below) earlier this month to photograph this new work in its final stages.

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Natasha Kissell will be showing a series of new series of paintings at Eleven gallery in London in March. Dafydd Jones photographed the artist in her studio last week as she was putting the finishing touches to the works for her exhibition entitled 'The Hours'.

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In the second excerpt from his new book, This Is Civilisation, Matthew Collings (below) visits the Chinese artist Wang Qingsong at his Beijing studio: 'The TV crew and I walked a couple of hundred yards into the space towards bright lights and the sound of shouting. We saw hills, tanks, jeeps, artillery and barbed wire. Real horses arrived and clip clopped up to the hills. Rifles, model bombs and grenades lay around. The mock hills ran for several more hundred yards and were about seventy-five yards deep. There were trenches, craters and abandoned vehicles, plus rickety wooden fences with burned tin cans tied to them with wire.'

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At this summer's Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall curators Wolfe Lenkiewicz and Flora Fairbairn brought together a host of artists whose work 'exposes and questions the dark side of human nature'. The exhibition, entitled 'Avatar of Sacred Discontent', has now been brought to London and will be on view at 9 Hillgate Street, W8 until 20 October. Among the artists participating in the show is Petroc Sesti whose works bring together art and science in a cognition-defying way. Dafydd Jones photographed Seti at his studio shortly before the opening of the show.

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As the American artist Carter finishes various works to be shown at this year's Frieze art fair in London we asked him to give us a tour of his studio in the following series of photographs and a sneak preview of the paintings and sculptures he'll be showing at the fair.

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This September Riflemaker in London will be hosting one of its most ambitious and exciting shows to date. Working separately, with occasional correspondence by mail and a common title, artist Francesca Lowe and writer Alasdair Gray have created 'Terminus', a padded room of 130 of Lowe's ink on linen canvases with Gray's experimental narrative, 'Lanark', laid edge to edge across the gallery's uneven walls. Dafydd Jones visited Francesca Lowe in her studio to give us a sneak preview of this forthcoming exhibition.

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If you had to pin down LA-based artist Kristin Calabrese in terms laid out by the epidemiology classic The Tipping Point, she'd certainly qualify as a connector - a social pivot point between curators and dealers, brand-name artists and up-and-comers. Describing herself simply as someone who "likes to be part of things," Calabrese is, tellingly, an ENFP type according to the Myers-Briggs personality test, which may explain why she understands her rarefied position as a kind of social aggregator, curator and isolated artist. Calabrese's work can be seen in a group show curated by the artist at Honor Fraser Inc until 27 September.

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Tonight Gerry Judah unveils a new body of work at the Louise T Blouin Foundation in north London. Eight white on white panoramic landscapes that challenge the boundary between painting and sculpture take their inspiration from images of war zones and the devastating impact the current conflict is having on the landscape of the Middle East and elsewhere. Dafydd Jones photographed Judah in his studio as he was finishing the works for his new exhibition.

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Philippa Horan graduated from London's Chelsea School of Art in 2002 and since then has lived in London, New York and Berlin, working on paintings, installations and music. Tonight she adds to her range of talents with an artist-curated exhibition in the old hat shop she's recently moved into, the first of series of exhibitions which Horan will be hosting in the space.

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Last year Oliver Clegg submitted work for the Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition and not only were two of his paintings accepted but they were hung alongside work by two YBA heavyweights, Sarah Lucas and Gary Hume. Since then Clegg, aged 27, has gathered a discerning and loyal following among collectors and is much in demand for exhibitions - he's in two group shows opening this week. Rebecca Wilson and Dafydd Jones visited Oliver Clegg in his studio to get a sneak preview of the works included in the exhibitions.

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Ian Monroe's second solo show at Haunch of Venison opens on 3 March with a new body of work which continues his investigation into post-human, 'no-where' environments. Your Gallery magazine paid a visit to his studio as he was putting the finishing touches to the works for the exhibition. Photography by Dafydd Jones.

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Dafydd Jones continues his series of photographs of artists in their studios with a visit to Gavin Turk's studio as the artist is finishing work to be included in a retrospective exhibition in the Hague.

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Yinka Shonibare's white flag is currently flying at half-mast in Jubilee Gardens opposite the Houses of Parliament, the first in a series of flags commissioned by London's Hayward Gallery. Dafydd Jones photographed Shonibare in his studio shortly before the unveiling of his most recent project last week.

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An exhibition of new work by young British sculptor Conrad Shawcross, photographed for Your Gallery in his Hackney studio by Dafydd Jones, will open during frieze at Victoria Miro in London.

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After installing a ball of glowing plasma in the chapel of Sudeley beside the tomb of Katherine Parr, the London-based artist prepares for several new shows this autumn in London, Berlin and Paris. Dafydd Jones gives us a sneak preview.

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Your Gallery asked the man who has turned boom boxes and turntables into art works what sounds he's currently tuning into in his studio.

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Recently described as 'Britain's hottest bird stuffer,' Polly Morgan invited Dafydd Jones to her studio as she finishes various new projects for exhibitions opening this autumn, including 'Sensory Material' at Bonhams, an exploration of the sensual interaction between the viewer and the object.

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Take a walk through the highly ordered and immaculate studio of Brooklyn-based artist Kristin Baker.

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Dafydd Jones captures the artist in her Bloomsbury studio as she finishes new paintings for exhibitions at Alnwick, Northumberland, and the Museum of New Art in Detroit, her first museum show in the US.

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Photographer Dafydd Jones catches Grayson Perry putting the finishing touches to a few new works destined for his exhibition at Victoria Miro which opens on 5 July.

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In our ongoing series on 'Music While You Work', Richard Misrach discusses the different kinds of sounds he tunes into depending on the different stages in his practice.

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What do artists listen to in their studios? The radio, their iPod favourites or nothing at all? We asked a range of artists to let us know what sounds they tune in to when they're in the studio, or at any stage in their work. First up, Richard Prince and Ed Templeton.

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Take a peek inside your favourite artists' studios with Your Gallery daily magazine.

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