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This week’s recommended shows include Ian Kirkpatrick’s exploration of ancient and modern mythology at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, an exploration of British art over the last 150 years at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, plus Mandy Barker’s images highlighting the current global crisis of marine plastic pollution at Impressions Gallery, Bradford.

Limited edition newspaper launches a five-year programme of 50 artworks that will trace the 25km route of the new ‘super sewer’ that will help tackle sewage overflows into the River Thames.

Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker has won the $3,000 digital art prize for his work Plastic Reflectic, an interactive mirror installation that turns spectators’ reflections into silhouettes made from hundreds of pieces of plastic floating within a ‘plastic soup’.