Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.
From Thursday 17th May
The Noble Art of the Sword @ Wallace Collection
Now this looks really rather wonderful. Vaguely tying in with the 2012 Olympics, the Wallace Collection host an exhibition dedicated to the noble sport of fencing (it was one of the nine original Olympic sports apparently). On display are a host of exquisite objects – beautiful swords obviously, but also illustrations, portraits and prints that explore the social and political side of this most evocative of sports. En garde!
From Friday 18th May
Sarah Lederman @ ROLLO Gallery
A first solo show - if you discount her work-in-progress exhibition at C4RD back in 2010 - for the hotly tipped Sarah Lederman at ROLLO Contemporary this summer. Picked up by Saatchi and winner of the 2009 Catlin Prize, Lederman's paintings hone in upon the awkwardness and discomfort of adolescence and the conflicting states of innocence and sexual awareness. Layers of pencil and paint lend a delicate fragility to the subjects depicted.
From Saturday 19th May
Edward Burtynsky @ Photographers' Gallery
Finally! After shutting up shop back in September 2010, the wonderful Photographers' Gallery is back this summer following its £8.9 million refurbishment. The relaunch kicks off with a double whammy of exhibitions - from New Delhi collective Raqs and the brilliant Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky's works generally focus on places where human activity interrupts the existence of nature: human detritus on the one hand; vast blank nature on the other. This time the focus is on oil.
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