This week World Event for Young Artists [WEYA] will bring a staggering 1,000 young artists (18 – 30 years) from 120 nations to Nottingham. Over a period of 10 days, these artists will bring the city to life with creative activity across all art forms including visual arts, music and gastronomy. We zoom in on four of them here.

Brit artist Jenny Saville’s show at Modern Art Oxford, the first solo show of the artist’s work in a UK public gallery, traces her practice from the early nineties to the present. Here Jenny Saville discusses her highly gestural new paintings of children, inspired by Renaissance Virgin and Child.

The early summer degree show period is a breeding ground for high anxiety, increased adrenalin, excitement, awkward conversation, regrets and second guessing – all mixed in with a huge amount of relief and happiness.

We’re at the midway point of the degree show season, the undergraduate show period is now a near memory and all eyes are turning to the fast approaching MA shows. Now is the ideal time to draw to parallels between works across the London art schools. By head to head, we don’t mean versus, instead we draw out shared concerns and approaches among this years graduates.

Jotta curators Ellie Grieg and Dave Charlesworth tell us the London degree shows they will bit hitting over the next two weeks. Which will you be seeing? Let us know in the comment box below which ones we’re missing.