Neal Jones

Neal is in an exhibition called 'The House of Martha and Mary' at the Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney, Australia, until 8 June, click here for details www.darrenknightgallery.com and he is also in  a show a bit closer to home called 'Nestbeschmutzer' at Southard Reid Gallery, 7 Royalty Mews, Soho, until 15 June. For details go to southardreid.com

Artists of the Pageant

Several Drawing Year alumni are taking part in this exhibition of work from the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant which took place last summer. 'Artists of the Pageant' will open on Monday 3 June, 6.30- 9pm, at JWM Turner's House, Sandycombe Lodge, 40 Sandycombe Road, Twickenham, TW1 2LR, exhibition continues until 16 June. www.thamescapes.com

Fabienne Khial

Fabienne took part in 'Art is Bread' at the Gallop Space in Deptford last month. Along with another artist she made 300 postcard size drawings. The show was inspired by the quote by  El Salvador poet Roque Dalton; " Poetry like bread is for everyone."

Ben Nathan

Ben has a solo show of recent paintings, it is called "Structure" and will open on 13 June 6-9pm at 43 Inverness Street, NW1 7HB. Ends 13 July. http://www.bnathan.co.uk/structure/

Perienne Christian

Perienne's drawing is on the cover of this month's edition of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. MPT was founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort whose aim was to deal truthfully with the real contemporary world. http://www.mptmagazine.com/

Paul Fenner, Jessie Makinson and Constanza Dessain

Paul, Jessie and Constanza are in a joint show entitled 'Re-Enchanted Worlds' at Boss and Baum gallery, opening 22 May, 6- 9pm, exhibition continues until 14 June. Bosse and Baum Gallery, 7- 9 Tyron Street, SW3 3 LG http://www.bosseandbaum.com/#

Constanza Dessain

Constanza is showing in the new landscape exhibition 'Our Autonomous Nature II' which opens on Tuesday 21 May, 7pm at the Testbed space in Battersea, exhibition continues until 24 May.
Testbed, SW11 4NP, click here to find out more ourautonomousnature.tumblr.com

Nhatt Nichols

Nhatt's drawing, entitled 'My Last Inch', won 3rd prize in The Roostein Hopkins Exhibition, it will be on display at the Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1.The opening is 4.30- 7pm on 16 May, exhibition continues until 8 June. All details here www.parkerharris.co.uk

Johnny Dewe Mathews

Tutor Johnny Dewe Mathews has a solo exhibition entitled ' Behind the Scenes, Kitchens, Orchestras and Film Sets' opening this week at two galleries on Cork Street: 13- 18 May at Gallery 27 and 14- 25 May at 21 Cork Street, 1st Floor. Open Daily from 11am - 7pm.

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013

Applications are now open for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013. You need to register by the 9 June and if you live in London submit work by 29 June, for deadlines to drop off work outside London, to register and for all other information go to www.parkerharris.co.uk

Grant Foster

Grant's work has been selected for this year's Bloomberg New Contemporaries show, date and venue to be confirmed. Details will be on their web site www.newcontemporaries.org.uk

Nick Bush, Anthony Banks and Mary Roberts-Holmes

Nick, Anthony and Mary are exhibiting in group show called 'New Contemporary South' at St Anne's Gallery in Lewes. The exhibition will be open over two weekends: the 11-12 May and 18-19 May. You can find out about the exhibition here www.stannesgalleries.com 

Lorna Wadsworth

Lorna's portrait of Margaret Thatcher was featured in The Times on 15 April. For more information about Lorna's work you can visit her web site www.lornamaywadsworth.com

John Burke

John is showing a portrait in this year's Royal Society of Portrait Painters, opening on the 9 May, on until 24 May. For more details visit www.therp.co.uk