Dean Kissick

TUESDAY

The exhibition that I'm most excited about is, unsurprisingly, the one that I've been working on all week. PALIMPSEST is an alternative, off-site-specific degree show for the Royal College of Art, a self-organised framework for students to exhibit their work together in a new experimental context outside of the institution. The exhibition unfolds in 3 stages that will be layered on top of each other to create an ever-changing space; a cross-disciplinary showcase of works by a selection of this year's graduating students.

PALIMPSEST SHOW 1 opens in a disused shop in South Kensington at 7pm, and features artists from outside of the school of Fine Art: Leslie Deere, Fraser Hamilton, Nelly Ben Hayoun & Noemie Goudal, Dean Kissick, Ted Lovett, Xavier Poultney & Hannah Barton, Jasmine Raznahan, Kalliopi Sifakaki, and George Thomas. There's a lovely garden with food and drink for a pleasant and sunny evening, and for more details see the {Facebook event}.

THURSDAY

Thursday evening brings another group exhibition of upcoming artists, BRICKS, which takes place in the vast and cavernous basement of Shoreditch Town Hall. This show "looks at how artists assemble different components within their artworks in order to create a more significant whole. presenting work within the literal foundations of a institution, all of the constituent elements of a system are exposed and exploited", and features Jessica Harris, Eleanor Hutchinson, Henry Kinman, Janina Lange, James Lingwood, Gareth Lloyd, Emma Martin, Sibylla McGrigor, Lewis McGuffie & Paul McGee, Joana Mesquita, Anne-Charlotte Morgenstein, Patrick Nicholson, Adam Redhead, Dave Pullen and Phil Thompson. Please visit {their Facebook event page}.

FRIDAY

And finally, on Friday evening artist-run space Five Years will be presenting the "first UK show of young Finnish artist. ANIA SERAPHIN: Born 25.3.1999." So Ania is very young indeed, and surely represents the exciting new generation of (10-year old) artists. According to the press release she "likes to watch TV, especially Pimp My Ride. she really, really likes Japanese animation films by Hayao Miyazaki, like Howl's Moving Castle and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind". Furthermore a fanzine of Ania's work will be produced for the exhibition, and the private view will feature an intervention by brilliant London-based artist Mark Aerial Waller. More information can be found on {the Five Years website}.