Contemporary art

With the help of Jamie Hawkesworth, JW Anderson, Ashley Williams, Ronan McKenzie (and loads more), online marketplace Beirut Re-Store hopes to raise money following the city’s devastating explosion earlier this year.

The artist pays homage to the people and places that have shaped his northern identity – the pub, football pitches and boxing gyms – in his debut exhibition, Contender.

Following last year’s successful exhibition-cum-knees up in London, curator Ben Broome returns with his fifth instalment in Paris. Masks on, go see work by Frank LeBon, Bianca Saunders, Rhea Dillon and more.

With a solo exhibition now showing at JD Malat Gallery, Cumberland’s work is at times an uneasy glimpse into the fucked up world we live in – Trump and all.

With a wicked sense of humour, the Aberdeen-born artist creates darkly ironic collages intended to hold a magnifying glass up to the art world. Here, he gets frank.

The artist’s work is a very British nudge and a wink, but he’s still a man on a mission to find higher meaning…