Guest curators for the Affordable Art Fair 2010 graduate programme, jotta presents Land Without A Map, a thematic showcase of 18 recent graduates whose practices test new perceptions of landscape, exploring a variety of mediums from painting, printmaking and photography to sculpture and moving image.

jotta gained access to the show prior to its opening, when we snatched five minutes with seminal British sculptors Bill Woodrow and Keith Brown, as well as the curator, Peter Kardia, who taught each of the 28 artists exhibiting. Each artist brought a work from their student days and a recent work, resulting in a fascinating retrospective where Richard Deacon, Richard Wentworth and Richard Long, sit side by side.

The radical, reaching and cutting-edge CHELSEA space is celebrating its fifth birthday. Five weeks of performances, exhibits, questions and histories will be held this month, including big names and sharp artistic insight. jotta spoke to guest curator and experimental performance artist Bruce Mclean about his contribution.

With the launch of Shaping Sculpture in January – a year long programme of events surrounding practices in contemporary sculpture and Tate Britain’s Henry Moore retrospective opening its doors only last week, sculpture has already featured highly on the cultural radar in 2010. This Friday, From Floor to Sky – an exhibition curated by the hugely influential St. Martin’s teacher, Peter Kardia – brings together work by some of the most significant British sculptors of our time.

Irving Penn’s career arched across seven decades, only coming to an end when he died last year at age 92. Various avenues of exploration means his name strikes different chords in each of us. You might imagine a tantalisingly grisly still life, (Cigarette 17, 1972), or the elderly road sweeper, (Small Trades, 1950/51), or his wonderful fashion photography and beguiling portraiture. The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition is the UK’s first to be devoted purely to the luminary’s portraiture.