It's not often that science graduates become artists. Briony Marshall has gone one step further. She uses science - more specifically biochemistry and molecular biology - as the model for her sculptures and drawings. Her exhibition at the Pangolin London is entitled Life Forming. Its centrepiece is her interpretation of...

Throughout the centuries, propaganda has involved publicising information to influence belief and behaviour. The Trajan columns, for example, are an early example of how a ruler, in this case a Roman Emperor, reinforced his authority by glorifying his deeds in the medium of the day. The invention of the printing...

Horsemeat in Spaghetti Bolognese, pig meat in beefburgers - the food scandals this year have been less about health, more about honesty. Consumers have been once again shocked at discovering that what they thought they were eating turned out to be something different. The need for transparency over food ingredients...

The Ceri Hand Gallery lies in the shadow of the Shard. Inside, the pictures in its current exhibition lie in the shadow of death. Death is never far away, particularly in the drawings, as opposed to the paintings, of London artist Henny Acloque.

There is an all-pervasive ghostly feel...

The world of contemporary art, according to Martin Jenner (above), owner of the new Cotswold gallery High House, is a jungle in which anyone wishing to start a collection can easily be intimidated by many people claiming to know a lot more than they...

Gabriella Boyd is a fresh, young talent on the contemporary art scene. Having graduated from Glasgow School of Art where she received the Chairman's Award in 2011, she came to the attention of Charles Saatchi who bought two of her paintings and his Saatchi Gallery awarded her a Special Commendation....

Alexander James has established himself as a renowned exponent of underwater photography. His work has been exhibited across the globe, principally in London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney and Paris. Yet his prints have nothing to do with fish, there is no SCUBA gear or waterproof cameras involved. Over a period...

At first glance, Silvia Hatzl's exhibits appear as ordinary clothes - a blouse here, a negligee there, a child's dress, a long skirt - not surprising as this 46-year-old German artist designs stage costumes in Brussels where she now lives. There's a definite theatricality about the whole exhibition that is...

A monochromed Bill Bailey looks tormented, Chris Addison peers dreamily from behind red scaffolding, Tim Minchin resembles Jesus pondering his crucifixion, Alice Lowe's mascara streaks down her tear-stained face. These intimate photographic portraits of comedians as you never see them are a selection from more than 50 taken over the...

Thursday evening, 1 November it was down to Chelsea's Andipa Gallery to attend Movements of the Soul, the title of the first major solo exhibition of Belgian artist Johan van Mullem, a rising star in the modern art world.

As the title suggests, this collection of striking portraits represents...