As the world becomes increasingly urbanised our lives become more characteristically urban in experience. The sensory experience of urban living and its architecture in its evolving forms is a recurrent theme in contemporary art. Sophie Hoyle looks at the 2d and 3D architectural reflections in the work of Neil Ayling and Frauke Dannnert

Jotta’s forthcoming group exhibition Sum of Substance presents nineteen recent graduates whose art work seeks to make progressive inroads into our understanding of value. In the run up to the opening on 15th March, Elizabeth Homersham speaks with Jotta curators Ellie Grieg and Dave Charlesworth about the concept behind the show and the artists selected.

Valentina Fois, the curator of London gallery La Scatola, introduces us to the work of David Paredes, and his evolutionary installations.

Artists accused of being unproductive members of society can rejoice. The speakers at ‘The Trouble with Productivity’, a talk hosted on the 11th of January at the ICA, showed the audience that un-productivity is no longer a negative thing, and, if anything, something to be should be desired…

The final episode in our Gift series, in which jotta curator Dave Charlesworth initiates an artist Secret Santa. Three artists have anonymously given and received gifts from one another. With wrapping paper strewn across the studio floor, we take this opportunity to talk about their work, the idea of exchange and what they think about the gift that they have received.