Artist of the week
Your ongoing guide to who's who in the contemporary art world
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Artist of the week 210: Anna Barham
Skye Sherwin: Words take on a new life in the surreal animation of this London-based artist, returning time and again to the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna where the modern alphabet began
Artist of the week 209: Anthea Hamilton
Skye Sherwin: From Perspex legs to a young Karl Lagerfeld and huge images of John Travolta's sweatband-clad head, exploring this artist's work is like stumbling on to a weird and wonderful theatre set
Artist of the week 208: Fiona Tan
Skye Sherwin: Tan's haunting video portraits and collections of other people's snapshots span countless continents and lifetimes
Artist of the week 207: Adam Dant
Skye Sherwin: Dant's fantastic maps, charts and satirical projects – such as 'underneathism', the painstaking depiction of things from below – show a peculiarly British wit
Artist of the week 206: Thea Djordjadze
Skye Sherwin: This Georgia-born artist works quickly and intuitively, creating poetic, allusive arrangements that hint at ever-shifting stories
Artist of the week 205: Francis Upritchard
Skye Sherwin: Her rainbow-splashed marionettes are a statement about the lost summer of love generation. And authors from Ali Smith to David Mitchell have written stories about them
Artist of the week 204: Damián Ortega
Skye Sherwin: This Mexican artist transforms everyday finds, from Coke bottles to corn on the cob, into things of wonder
Artist of the week 203: Sung Hwan Kim
Skye Sherwin: This Korean-born, New York-based artist spins beguiling tales that mesh elements from sci-fi, folk tales, personal memories and history
Artist of the week 202: Hariton Pushwagner
Skye Sherwin: After a period sleeping rough in the 90s, this artist and his portraits of a dehumanising modernity are enjoying a resurgence
Artist of the week 201: Jacob Hashimoto
Skye Sherwin: Rice paper kites in geometric shapes populate Hashimoto's art, lending it an otherworldy dimension, a modern sense of fairytale
Artist of the week 200: Sam Dargan
Skye Sherwin: After years of painting miserable office workers, battered priests and bleak landscapes, Dargan's new work has a sense of hope
Artist of the week 199: Jo Spence
Housewives were desperate and family life far from domestic bliss for photographer whose work explores identity politics
Artist of the week 198: Jennet Thomas
Skye Sherwin: Want to see the world in black and yellow? Then delve into the strange, surreal films of this satirist of the everyday
Artist of the week 197: Ellen Gronemeyer
Skye Sherwin: The Berlin-based artist's thickly layered paintings are intense yet whimsical, with spectral characters alongside dancing acrobats
Artist of the week 196: Amalia Pica
Skye Sherwin: This London-based Argentine's work speaks to us of the missed chances and misunderstandings in both art and life
Artist of the week 195: Alexis M Teplin
Comedy and unchastity are key in this American artist's vivid patchwork paintings and sculptures, which call for social change even as they flag up failures of cultural revolutions past
Artist of the week 194: Jessica Rankin
Skye Sherwin: Rankin's works on organza are like mental maps, combining spontaneous words and thoughts with the labour of embroidery
Artist of the week 193: Sara VanDerBeek
Skye Sherwin: This American artist's photographs of spindly assemblages, destitute factories and dancers from her hometown seem frozen in time and elusive like memories
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