The artist-illustrator duo, who also go by the moniker Good Wives and Warriors, show 14 mandalas and a floor-based painting installation about the information overload of modern life, embracing its chaos with a buzzy visual polyphony. At Space in Between, Regent Studios, E8, until 14 January 2012 (by appointment until 22 December)
Photograph: Regent Studios, London
In the artist's distinctly Irish folklore surrealism, lost souls and straying animals roam waywardly, loomed over by the history of the Troubles. The foibles of human society are also represented, set absurdly against a backdrop of wasted farmlands. It's heady stuff. At Golden Thread Gallery until 4 February 2012
Photograph: Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
The installation and video artist mixes reveries about tooth fairies with anxieties about the effects of life sciences on our genetic makeup. A host of UK kids (including Lola, pictured) have donated their milk teeth to construct these works. At the Bluecoat until 19 February 2012
Photograph: Bluecoat Centre, Liverpool
As you might expect from an exhibition inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki's essay In Praise of Shadows, visitors need a torch to view these works, shown as they are in a semi-darkened labyrinth gallery. There's a playfulness here, despite the darkening theme, such as Reka Reisinger's Elevation (2009, pictured) and Ayo and Oni Oshodi's portrait of a girl with electrically flickering eyes. At Mac Gallery until 29 January 2012
Photograph: Mac Gallery, Birmingham
In the New York artist's London debut, Male Fantasies, paintings and reels of newspaper expand into three dimensions, coming to life as chairs, piles of plates, even a carpet. It's a strange face-off between the world of commerce and headline news. At White Cube Bermondsey, SE1, until 26 February 2012
Photograph: Christopher Burke/White Cube
The return of Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum is a bright spot in a regional arts scene turned gloomy by funding cuts. Exhibitions include work by Queen Victoria's favourite photographers (until 1 April 2012) and French and British painting from impressionism to the 1920s (until 11 March). Blast Theory have created Ghostwriter (pictured), a spectral chaperone who will talk you through the collection
Photograph: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Here sculptors go back to basics, to hand-shaped squishy clay and the sparkle of ceramic glazes. Giles Round's creations look to brutalist architecture, while Caroline Achaintre gives clay an S&M edge and Jesse Wine's work (such as Serious I, 2011, pictured) is gloriously unconventional. At Wysing Arts Centre until 22 January 2012
Photograph: Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, exhibitors here lay claim to the moon's romantic profile. Agnes Meyer-Brandis has bred 11 real 'moon geese' to tow a make-believe chariot skyward; Leonid Tishkov brings the moon down to earth (pictured); and Sue Corke and Hagen Betzwieser conjure a moon smell that has been authenticated by Buzz Aldrin. At Fact until 26 February 2012
Photograph: Fact, Liverpool
