Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 15 May – 27 June 2015
The similarities and differences of painting and photography have always fascinated David Hockney RA. This spring Annely Juda shows the Academician’s latest works that explore multipoint perspective, one of the artist’s long-time pre-occupations. Card Players #1 (2014; below), for example, demonstrates Hockney’s mastery at combining different viewpoints, while The Red Table (2014; above) amalgates photography and painting in one of a series of clever hybrid works.

Turner Contemporary, Margate, 23 May – 13 September 2015
Ceramicist and tapestry-maker Grayson Perry RA is also a punk by profession, if the subtitle of his new survey show at Turner Contemporary is anything to go by. Featuring more than 50 works dating from 1981 until today, the exhibition is permeated by his irreverent attitude to culture; the tone is set by an early work, Early English Motorcycle Helmet (1981; below), when a biker’s helmet appears like a Celtic relic, formed in rusticated metal and adorned with ancient and modern signs and signifiers. Perry chronicles contemporary life, in his words, as “a kind of teasing rebellion, not a violent revolution”.

Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 16 May – 11 July 2015
An artist clearly aware of the sensual dimension of materials, Samara Scott is filling Eastside Projects’ gallery space with poured, splattered, smeared and pooled consumer products, from soft drinks and candle wax to toothpaste – an installation not to miss.

The Sailsbury Museum, London, 22 May – 27 September 2015
J.M.W. Turner worked as a draughtsman to architects when he was young boy, and his experience of this profession taught him to be exact in his depictions of architecture and perspective. The Salisbury Museum now stages the first exhibition devoted to Turner’s beautiful drawings and watercolours of Salisbury Cathedral, as well as other buildings in the city and its surroundings. The show is curated by Turner scholar Ian Warrell.

Both at New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, 23 May – 26 July 2015

Conrad Shawcross RA’s new work Three Perpetual Chords was recently installed in Dulwich Park in London, to replace the Barbara Hepworth sculpture that was sadly stolen. This May, Hepworth and Shawcross meet once more, in Salisbury’s New Art Centre.

On show in the Artists’ House, the exhibition Form and Theatre is the first of many overdue Barbara Hepworth shows about to grace galleries across the country. This exhibition examines Hepworth’s interest in theatre, and focuses particularly on her 1951 commission to create designs for a production of Sophocles’s Electra at the Old Vic – one sculpture represents the god Apollo with curvilinear steel rods. Meanwhile, gracefully rippled metal sculptures by Conrad Shawcross adorn the centre’s bucolic grounds. Shawcross transmutes scientific patterns and mathematical ratios into 3-D form, with the oscillations of a Victorian harmonograph, for example, dictating the shape of a large standing bronze (below).

Eleanor Mills (@slinkissimo) is Assistant Editor of RA Magazine.