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Urs Fischer’s (@chaosursfischer) eyeballs at Gagosian

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Tetsuya Ishida at Gagosian

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Suanjaya Kencut Button-eye doll

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Jingyi Wang cactus head

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Daniel Rich

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Anya Paintsil install shot at Ed Cross Fine Art

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Anya Paintsil detail

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The Cloud Room, curated by Conrad Shawcross, at the RA

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Humid Labyrinth Room outside the RA

Showcasing artists and works that caught my attention.

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Images 1-2 = Are Urs Fischer’s (@chaosursfischer) eyeballs the output of Tetsuya Ishida’s sibling assault? You can have a lot of fun trying to connect the dots between sixty years of big name work in this group show that envisions a bleak but familiar future.

‘Haunted Realism’ at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill (@Gagosian) until 26 Aug

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Images 3-5 = For a decidedly more upbeat experience, I suggest Suanjaya Kencut’s (@Suanjaya_Kencut) button-eyed dolls and Jingyi Wang’s (@jingyiwang.jenny) colourful cactus heads. Both provide an energetic contrast to the soothing spectrums of colour flowing throughout Daniel Rich’s (@drichski) American architectural icons.

‘Otherworldly’ at Mucciaccia Gallery (@mucciacciagallery) until 30 July

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Images 6-7 = Anya Paintsil’s (@AnyaPaintsil) woven relief sculptures look like the kind of inopportune candids that your Mother posts on Facebook. Human hair, often but not always the artists’ own, adds a touch of realism to these depictions of her siblings awkwardly encountering elements from Welsh and Ghanaian folklore. Oh how I wished these could talk!

‘We Are All Made of You’ at Ed Cross Fine Art (@edcrossfineart) until 29 June

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Images 8-9 =

From well above your head, right down to your toes,

There’s lots and lots of details. Rows and rows and rows!

It’s crowded and chaotic, with far too much to see.

So pick a random wall, then navigate slowly.

I figured bad poetry was the most appropriate way to describe this year’s summer show. It’s also a pretty good description of ‘Humid Labyrinth Room’, the claustrophobic maze in the courtyard that provides a faster, FREE way to get the same experience.

‘Summer Exhibition’ at Royal Academy of Arts (@royalacademyarts) until 21 Aug

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Graduate Shows

Spotting potential can be incredibly hard to do when most of the work on the walls — and floors, and occasionally ceiling — is often experimental or unfinished or underwhelming. (Occasionally all 3!) That’s all part of the fun and it certainly keeps things fresh, just so long as you know not to go expecting to have fully fleshed out artistic encounters. That takes years if not decades to accomplish.

That being said, and for a variety of different reasons, I found promise in these eleven artists from Central Saint Martins and Slade:

Dalila Legesse (@dalilalegesse)

India Wilson (@indiawilson_fine_art)

Jade Mellor (@jadeemellor)

Maisy Banks (@maisybanks)

Morenike Caxton-Martins (@mcmxart)

Central Saint Martins (@unioftheartslondon) until 22 Jun

Antrea Tzourovits (@tzourovits)

Eva Popovic (@eva_popovic)

Kainoa Gruspe (@quinoa__salad)

Lícia Santos (@licia_santos)

Polly Jane Wilson (@pollyjanewilson)