The Californian designer is the father of groovily upholstered furniture and paintings collaged with carpet, and the latest works on show here – including six new paintings – continue his lush psychedelica. At Corvi-Mora, London, until 31 July 2011 Photograph: Fredrik Nilsen
The Prospect of Immortality is the outcome of Ballard's photographic investigation into the cryonics industry where, he finds, corpses stored in liquid nitrogen are still referred to as 'patients'. On show at Impressions Gallery until 17 September 2011 Photograph: Murray Ballard
An 80th birthday celebration of the artist's visceral expressionism – here delightful, there falling into blunt melodrama; but always offering a thrilling example of figurative painting. On at the Irish Museum of Modern Art to 18 September 2011
Photograph: Irish Museum of Modern Art/Gordon Lambert Trust, 1992
A surreal sculptural display teeming with eccentric charity-shop and eBay finds, all arranged to disorienting effect. Stunning and surreal. At Castlefield Gallery until 24 July 2011
Photograph: Hilary Jack
Leo Fitzmaurice collects posters, flyers and consumer packaging, transforming them into a neo-pop spectacle, like some high-speed latterday Warhol. On show at New Art Gallery until 1 October 2011
Photograph: Leo Fitzmaurice
The Dutch artist's smudgy, shadowy drawings focus on the uncertain, unstable nature of history – from a boxer who was married to Liz Taylor to an explosion at sea. On at Sprüth Magers in London until 13 August 2011
Photograph: Marcel van Eeden
They were the starry double act of decadent Paris – he the high-living painter, she the high-kicking showgirl – but these intimate portraits (collectively titled Beyond the Moulin Rouge) show a more thoughtful side to Avril. On at the Courtauld Gallery until 18 September 2011
Photograph: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection
Jem Finer – founding member of the Pogues, now artist – turns on the big questions of time, nature and mortality. His latest work features random projections of 18,000 photos taken by a solar-powered camera hidden in a tree for a year. On show at Stour Valley Arts Gallery, to 16 July 2011
Photograph: Jem Finer
