LONDON CALLING

It’s been a busy few months for British painter Jock McFadyen, who is fresh from exhibitions at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios and Manchester gallery The Lowry. Next up is his ‘Tourist Without a Guidebook’ exhibition, which brings together 20 works painted over 30 years for a free display at the Royal Academy of Arts. Here, the focus is his large-scale scenes of London’s urban landscape in all their littered and graffitied glory. At turns dream-like and dystopian, each helps document a city in flux. 5 February – 10 April 2022 (royalacademy.org.uk).