Nature’s Enigma Unveiled. Explore the captivating art of Mat Collishaw as it graces Kew Gardens this month. ‘Petrichor’ unfolds in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, where new creations intermingle with his existing works, inspired by the wonders of the natural world.

From plants that dine on insects to digital hybrids and an animated ancient oak, Mat’s eerie realm blurs art and nature’s boundaries using art history and AI. Don’t miss his zoetrope magic, where light breathes life into still sculptures, turning them into fluttering birds amid blooming blossoms. Welcome to the mesmerising world of Collishaw. It’s a fine place to hang out.

Over the last 50 years, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has stubbornly resisted the rise of digital technology, instead pushing the craft of analogue photography to the max – with radical results. Sugimoto often uses a large-format wooden camera, mixing his own darkroom chemicals and developing his black-and-white prints by hand. The quality of his work has to be admired in person – no insta snap will do.

The artist collapses time and stretches space in his work, making the Hayward Gallery’s survey show a mesmerising journey. It includes seminal pieces such as Theaters (1976 – ), a series shot in movie palaces and drive-ins, in which he captures entire films with a single long exposure, rendering all the dramatic action into one image of radiant whiteness. Also shown is Architecture (1997 -), his out-of-focus studies of iconic modernist buildings around the world, in which all their detail is blurred out, leaving behind just their ghostly silhouettes. Sugimoto shakes up both our understanding of the medium, and how we look at the world around us.