UK Reviews

At Josh Lilley, London, the artist’s depictions of a not-so-blissful domesticity evoke Lee Lozano and Pablo Picasso

An exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, encapsulates the artist’s ability to create hard sculptures that mimic soft or fluid materials 

The Glasgow-based polymath’s solo show at Chapter, Cardiff, is rigorously informed by ancient and mediaeval religions and spiritual movements

From Sonia Boyce’s triumphant Venice installation at Turner Contemporary, Margate, to an exhibition that channels artists’ spiritual relationship with nature at Modern Art, London

At Modern Art, London, ‘The Moth and the Thunderclap’ contains works by over 40 artists channelling the energies of the natural world 

The inaugural show at London’s reopened Raven Row presents episodes of ‘Open Door’, a radical 1970s media production model 

At Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, the artist’s domestic objects are playfully at odds with a world dominated by rigid functions

At Camden Art Centre, the artist’s first solo UK institutional show is imbued with latent dread

The artist’s oversized flowers at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, address ideas of inheritance and nurture 

From Elizabeth Price’s exploration of Glaswegian carpets at the Hunterian Art Gallery to Ayo Akingbade’s solo show at Chisenhale Gallery, London

An exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts interrogates the relationship between memory, experience and preservation 

At Brighton CCA, the artist’s latest participatory installation invites audiences to comb for gold in tonnes of stones transported from the nearby coast

At Chisenhale Gallery, London, the artist uses documentary and drama to look into colonialism, loss and spiritual awakening

From Howardena Pindell’s harrowing retrospective at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, to Garrett Bradley’s moving debut at Lisson Gallery, London

At Baltic, Gateshead, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition examines the pernicious effects of Britain’s oil interests in the Kurdistan Region

An ambitious group show at Michael Werner Gallery, London, curated by Andrew Bonacina, invites us to examine the possibilities of human representation through the works of 28 artists

At the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, the artist activates the archives of Scotland’s most influential carpet designers, James Templeton & Co Ltd and Stoddard International plc

At Studio Voltaire, London, a new film narrated by Ben Whishaw asks why the intelligence services proved such an ideal calling for gay men in the early 20th century

From an exhibition of Zineb Sedira’s maritime works at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, to Anne Imhof’s labyrinthine locker room at Sprüth Magers, London

From Forrest Bess's weathered paintings to Claye Bowler's personal and collective history of trans experience, here are the must-see shows across the UK right now