East End Academy, London

Launched in 1932, the East End Academy is one of the longest-standing exhibitions open to artists living or working in the East End of London. Understandably, over the years it has operated as a launch pad for many a young budding artist, including Cornelia Parker, Antony Gormley, Richard Wentworth and Rachel Whiteread. This year the exhibition has focused on painting, inviting submissions from more than 600 painters from the East End. Twelve have been selected from a judging panel that included the Turner prize nominee Gillian Carnegie and art market expert Francis Outred, the head of contemporary art of Christie's auction house. Of the 12, the duo Cullinan Richards will be familiar thanks to their appearances in shows at the South London Gallery and Mobile Home Gallery. Look out too for Luke Dowd, who has shown at Hotel Gallery's former space on Old Bethnal Green Road.

• Whitechapel Art Gallery, E1, to 30 Aug