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Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark

Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

Exhibitionist 2101: Hamish Fulton
Hamish Fulton, Margate
Hamish Fulton, AKA 'the walking artist', champions an eco-conscious art form that engages with the land, while leaving no trace upon it. His exhibition, Walk, is at Turner Contemporary until 7 May 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 2101: Margherita Manzelli
Margherita Manzelli, London
The women Margherita Manzelli paints seem to have a lot on their minds. The results are deeply creepy, evoking Francis Bacon's tormented souls or Egon Schiele's twisted teens. Above, MC J # 6, 2010, by Margherita Manzelli. At Greengrassi, SE11, until 25 February 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 2101: Christina Mackie
Christina Mackie, London
Mackie's latest show, Painting the Weights, is named after the process of turning physical matter into digital animation. On tables and shelves, and within a network of steel bars hugging the wall, are protean works pointing to tensions and transitions between the real and virtual world. At Chisenhale Gallery, E3, until 11 March 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 2101: Paul Mason
Paul Mason, Derby
While Paul Mason is perhaps still best known for his civic commissions, this first show of his work since his untimely death in 2006 will reveal an artist of far wider creative range than could have been imagined. Above, Scottish Mountain Triptych, Central Panel. At Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, until 25 February 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 2101: Mark Power
Mark Power, Bradford
'Ugliness can be profoundly beautiful,' says photographer Mark Power, recalling the 25 visits he made to Poland over a period of five years. He titles this resulting exhibition The Sound of Two Songs in tribute to the country 'bursting with visual contradictions' he came to love with a profound aesthetic ambivalence. Above, Watching the funeral of Pope John Paul II broadcast live from the Vatican, Warszawa, 2005. At Impressions Gallery until 24 March 2012
Photograph: Mark Power
Exhibitionist 2101: There is a place
There Is a Place … Walsall
Deja vu is even more striking when triggered by a place of no apparent significance, or so the artists in this show might persuade us. Among them is Laura Oldfield Ford, who applies her ballpoint to the unsung charms of Leytonstone and Walsall. Above, Leytonstone 1995 1999 2012, Pen on paper, 2010/11, by Laura Oldfield Ford. At New Art Gallery Walsall until 14 April 2012
Photograph: Laura Oldfield Ford/Courtesy of Hales Gallery, London
Exhibitionist 2101: Anna Barriball
Anna Barriball, Edinburgh
Anna Barriball draws things that are not there and disguises things that are. Paper is placed over a door and drawn on so persistently that the door's every contour and indentation is recorded as a graphite tracery. Her drawings take on an air of obsessive ritual. At Fruitmarket Gallery until 9 April 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhibitionist 2101: David Hockney
David Hockney, London
This show of mostly recent landscape paintings sees Hockney transform his native Yorkshire's fields, woods and country lanes into vivid panoramas. Above, Winter Tunnel with Snow, March, 2006. A Bigger Picture is at Royal Academy of Arts, W1, until 9 April 2012
Photograph: Richard Schmidt
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