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Alison Brady graduated in 2006 with an MFA from the School Of Visual Arts in New York. With the help of simple props - fishing wire, salami slices, filthy bed sheets - she arranges homemade Grand Guignol scenes, where friends and strangers are invited into a performance of the artist's projection into an absurd reality. The result is both a humourous and disturbing body of work that explores unconscious emotions, desires and sexual compulsions.

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Surrounded for the next five months by macaroons and eclairs at Maison Bertaux, Soho's prettiest and oldest cake shop, are fifteen of faux-naive drawings by Matthew Buckham. 'Woodenship' is the collective title - a Crosby, Stills and Nash song and a made-up word that seems to sum up the exhibition perfectly. Along with their cheque books on the opening night came uber-agent Caroline Michel and actors Steven Berkoff, Ralph Fiennes and Bernard Hill. Laura K Jones reports.

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Young German artist Natalie Czech creates her prints by pulling thousands of similar images off the web, corralling them in photoshop and manipulating them into dizzying new arrangements. Her first major solo show, at Berlin's Jette Rudolph Galerie, displays a series of digital collages composed of recognizable motifs from the online news, repeated ad nauseum, a series of curated collections of a 'world events': natural disasters, protests, fireworks and confetti.

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Reality and dimensional ambiguities are two of the things that Kate Atkin's fragmentary, survey-like graphite drawings and reliefs of natural formations capture, things that cannot be seen by the naked eye - nor by the objective lens of a camera.

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After several months of being Indica, Riflemaker became Riflemaker again last night with the opening of Latvian artist Sam Kaprielov's first solo show, 'Le Rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore)'.

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Henry Bell Kimborough Hudson sometimes drags his drawings and paintings, tied to a bike, around the streets of East London and can often be found staining them with tea. Recently Hudson turned his back on oil paint in favour of plasticine, and this Thursday an exhibition of new 'plasticine paintings' will go on view at Hiscox Art Projects in London. Laura K Jones reports.

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"WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH, BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH," states the Los Angeles-based artist, Amanda Ross-Ho, who graduated in 2006 with an MFA from the University of Southern California. Opening on Saturday is her first solo exhibition in LA, comprising sculpture, photograpy and installation, which takes as its starting point the contemporary urban environment with its onslaught of information, culture, things to consume, things to throw away.

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Newly graduated with distinction from her MA at Goldsmiths, Jennifer Allen is currently combining her artistic practice with research for her PhD by observing the unspoken but carefully policed rules and rituals that exist between clients and girls in pole-dancing strip clubs.

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A new gallery has opened on Redchurch Street in Spitalfields, joining Museum 52, studio 1.1 and Trolley in making this a 'destination' street on the London East End art circuit. The Vegas Gallery, run by Suzanne Schurgers, a former student of the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, was launched last week with an exhibition of paintings by Geraldine Gliubislavich, who graduated from Central Saint Martin's School of Art (Byam Shaw) in 2006.

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For his first solo exhibition in Berlin young Brazilian video-artist Marcellvs L. (born in 1980 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is showing a series of video works characterised by the way in which they detach commonplace objects from reality - a rope moving in water, a man walking along a street, wind blowing through leaves, a boat moving slowly to and fro - slowing down time in an attempt to create a tangible physical staging of duration.

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Sascha Weidner, who was born in Osnabruck, Germany in 1976, takes elegiac photographs of a generation of young people for whom the future is uncertain and appears to offer little - hence the title of his current exhibition, 'All That Could Have Been', which opened in Berlin on Saturday.

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Nessie Stonebridge's first solo show is the product of four years of dialogue, support and collaboration with Debbie Carslaw, the livewire owner of young gallery, Madder Rose, that opened in June this year. Stonebridge's work comprises a mixture of delicate but dramatic charcoal drawings and paintings that veer widely in scale from small works measuring no more than 20 x 20 cm to gargantuan triptychs almost 3 x 2m. Jane Neal reports on Stonebridge's first exhibition in London which is on view until until 6 February.

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Young, Berlin-based artist Alexej Meschtschanow is beginning to earn himself a reputation as one of the most intriguing artists of a generation of sculptors now emerging on the Berlin scene. The art world began to realize that something new and exciting might be afoot earlier this year when leading German gallery, Eigen+Art, decided to devote their entire booth at Art Forum Berlin to sculpture. Jane Neal reports.

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Simon Harrison's highly skilled draftsmanship and imagination bring to life dark and fascinating worlds. The product of multiple influences, from the surreal to Japanese animation, to sci-fi, to comic book, Harrison's work sits somewhere between beauty and bad taste.

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Whitney McVeigh, whose work you can see more of on Your Gallery, is currently exhibiting at the Charing X Gallery in London's West End. Her new body of work consists of large-scale works on paper - some as large as 8 feet high - in which through a process of automatism, McVeigh pours paint onto the thick, fabric-like paper, then gently bends the paper allowing it to carve out the image.

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Catch Itoi's debut in London before it ends 24 September, and make sure to look out for more work from this talented young Japanese artist. We can only hope for a 'Particulars' book by Christmas..

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Polish-born artist Anna Orlikowska is still only 27 yet the intensity of her large-format, richly detailed photographs and surreal films suggests a far more experienced eye.

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Catch the recent RCA grad's most recent videos and sculptural installations in her solo show in Vermont starting today.

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Kowalski Hansen's new project mixes some beautiful sign-making with his (trademark) community action spirit.

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Discover a new group of emerging artists from the DC/Baltimore area art schools showcased in this group exhibition.

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New paintings from the recent St Martins grad, concerned with the aftermath of industrialisation, landscape, nature and science fiction realities created on earth.

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This week's Emerging Artist is Duncan Swann, whose paintings raise notions of power and dominance by exploring the visual representation of Western Colonialism.

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'Athens', Anthea Hamilton's current show at IBID PROJECTS in London, is her first solo exhibition, and we hope it won't be long until the next one. An appealing, unusual and poetic sensibility permeates the 2005 RCA graduate's sculptural compositions, in...

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'Britain's hottest bird stuffer' joins celebrated international artists in a new exhibition of contemporary sculpture at Sudeley Castle.

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