Cecily Brown's latest exhibition, 'Picture Making', opens at the Serpentine Gallery in London, showcasing new nature-tastic works of kaleidoscopic, richly textured, painterly experimentation. The YBA, who never felt cool enough to truly belong to the movement, presents pieces that spring to life just as the blossoms around the gallery begin to bloom. The exhibition runs until 6 September.
Elsewhere in London, Phoebe Collings-James presents 'A Rose, A Bridge, A House' at Pitzhanger Manor, featuring politically inclined ceramics formed into armour and clay paintings that riff on cuneiform writing and Ashanti folklore. The show runs from 1 April to 14 June.
At the Whitechapel Gallery, a major retrospective of Turner prize-winning artist Veronica Ryan, titled 'Multiple Conversations', celebrates her career with over 100 works of ultra-conceptual sculpture, from 1 April to 14 June.
In Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum presents 'Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime', a mini-retrospective of the pioneering British-Guyanese painter, covering his earliest figurative works to his influential abstract style, until 17 January.
Finally, 'Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists' at Edel Assanti in London features dizzying abstraction as a vehicle for ancient knowledge by Indigenous Australian artists Lorna Ward Napanangka, Yukultji Napangati and John West Tjupurrula, until 16 May.
