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Programme September – November 2013 www.ikon-gallery.co.uk Free entry

Hurvin Anderson reporting back Exhibition 25 September – 10 November 2013 First and Second Floor Galleries

Ikon presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of paintings by Birmingham-born artist Hurvin Anderson (born 1965), evoking sensations of being caught between one place and another, drawn from personal experience. It surveys the artist’s career, including work made while at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998, through the acclaimed Peter’s series, inspired by his upbringing in Birmingham’s Afro-Caribbean community, and ongoing works arising out of time spent in Trinidad in 2002. Filling Ikon’s entire exhibition space, reporting back traces the development of Anderson’s distinct figurative style. Anderson arrived on the international art scene with Peter’s, an ongoing series of paintings depicting the interiors of barbers’ shops, in particular one (owned by Peter Brown) visited by Anderson with his father as a boy. A converted attic serving as an improvised salon for conversation as well as for cutting hair, this was a social retreat vital for many male members of the local Caribbean community; a place he equates to an English garden shed. By painting this subject, the artist was exploring a formative psychological moment, and by returning to it pictorially he takes us with him on a journey that is as sentimental as it is a faithful representation. It is significant that Anderson depicts sites of leisure, where the mind is usually free to wander. He talks often of being in one place ‘but actually thinking about another’, a fact of his life arising out of his cultural background. He grew up in the English Midlands preoccupied with visions of a warmer, more colourful ‘other country’ and from this experience has developed a way of seeing which he describes

as ‘slightly outside of things’. Later paintings of the Caribbean embody this kind of perception with verdant green colour glimpsed behind close-up details of the fences and security grilles found in residential areas, or an expanse of water or desolate approach separating us, the viewer, from the point of interest in the centre ground. Anderson’s method of composition signifies at once a kind of social and political segregation, a smartness with respect to the business of picture making, amounting to a kind of semi-detached apprehension of what he encounters. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition priced £20, special exhibition price £15. It includes an essay by Jennifer Higgie, writer and co-editor of Frieze. Anderson has also made a limited edition print, B side (2013), edition of 100, priced £100. Visit Ikon’s online shop at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk for the full range of Ikon’s catalogues and limited editions.

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Hurvin Anderson Country Club: Chicken Wire (2008) Oil on canvas Collection Gordon Watson

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Hurvin Anderson Double Grille (2008) Oil on canvas Collection Janet de Botton

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Nina Könnemann

Associated Events

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Exhibition opening Wednesday 25 September, 6–8pm – FREE Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition. Drawing Short Course: People and Places Wednesdays 9 October, 16 October, 23 October, 30 October, 6–8pm £40 for all four sessions £32 concessions: students, unwaged, 60 + Reflecting Hurvin Anderson’s interest in abstraction and observation, this short course explores patterns – spatial, decorative, personal and evocative – and how people and places relate to each other. Tutor Tom Jones, Regional Associate for the Campaign for Drawing, systematically guides participants through observing and drawing significant details and unexpected arrangements in the gallery and in various locations around Birmingham. Booking essential. Places are limited, to book please visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call Ikon on 0121 248 0711. Hurvin’s Handsworth Saturday 19 October, 1–2.30pm £4/£3 concessions: students, unwaged, 60+ Join Ben Waddington from Birmingham’s Still Walking Festival for this 90 minute tour of the Handsworth known by Hurvin Anderson. The tour visits locations that shaped the artist’s life and inspired his paintings. Booking essential, places are limited. Please visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call Ikon Shop on 0121 248 0711. Exhibition tour with Hurvin Anderson Tuesday 29 October, 6.30–8.30pm £5/£4 concessions: students, unwaged, 60+ A rare opportunity to hear artist Hurvin Anderson discuss the inspiration behind his work as he takes you on a walk through his exhibition reporting back. Advance booking essential as places are limited, please visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call Ikon Shop on 0121 248 0711.

All events take place at Ikon Gallery unless otherwise stated.

Exhibition 25 September – 10 November 2013 Tower Room Please note the Tower Room is only accessible via a number of steps

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Lunchtime Lecture Series Understanding Art Part III: Making Places and Spaces: Interiors and Exteriors in Art Thursday 7 November, 2–3pm Ikon Gallery Thursday 14 November, 2–3pm Wolverhampton Art Gallery Thursday 21 November, 2–3pm The New Art Gallery Walsall Thursday 28 November, 2–3pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts £20 for all four sessions £16 concessions: students, unwaged, 60 + In week one at Ikon Gallery, we explore the paintings of Birmingham-born artist Hurvin Anderson and his colourful representations of domestic spaces. In week two at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, we compare interiors as backdrops to Georgian portraits and Victorian paintings of women from the Romantic era. In week three at The New Art Gallery Walsall, we look at allegorical landscapes by Ged Quinn referring to various historical and cultural events, and in week four at The Barber Institute we explore the exhibition John Monks: The Process of Painting, placing Monks’ work into a historical context. Booking essential, please visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call Ikon Shop on 0121 248 0711.

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German artist Nina Könnemann uses photography, film and animation to convey her observations on human behaviour, especially that happening in subcultures. Her video Bann (2012) features workers in the City of London smoking, hidden in shadows of the marble-lined exterior alcoves and alleyways of their office-blocks. Characteristic of Könnemann’s work, Bann is candid and direct, capturing behaviour that exists on the edge of social order since the recent European ban on smoking in public places. Smartly dressed men and women are now compelled to seek out covert locations so that they can satisfy their cravings. The work alludes to the kind of contemplative state that smoking induces in the smoker, corresponding to Könnemann’s way of seeing.

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Hurvin Anderson Peter’s Sitters II (2009) Oil on linen Zabludowicz Collection

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Slow Boat to Navinland

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Gillian Wearing A Real Birmingham Family A Real Birmingham Family is Ikon’s ongoing project (2011–2014) with Birmingham-born, Turner Prize winning artist Gillian Wearing: a quest to find a ‘real’ Birmingham family and immortalise it in bronze. The sculpture will be located in Centenary Square outside the new Library of Birmingham in 2014. From hundreds, one family has now been selected. The Jones family consists of two sisters, Roma and Emma, both single parents, and their two sons Kyan and Shaye. The judging panel was impressed by their commitment to Birmingham and the evolving concept of family. “We feel truly amazed and honoured to be chosen to represent what it means to be a family in Birmingham. We feel it highlights that family is an indestructible bond between people that is universal and it doesn’t matter how it is made up or what it looks like.” The Jones family www.arealbirminghamfamily.com

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Support A Real Birmingham Family We need to raise £100,000 to fund Gillian Wearing’s bronze sculpture of the chosen family, and we can only do this with your help. Any donation welcome. This is a crucial time for Ikon. For a limited period, from now, every donation we receive will be doubled through the Arts Council England Catalyst Scheme. For example, this means a donation of £5 from you will be worth £10 to Ikon. In addition, those giving amounts of £250 and more become part of Friends of the Family, a published list of supporters. Some with longstanding links to Ikon are amongst the first, as follows: Adrian Bland & family, Associated Architects, John Crabtree, Jean Denning, Antony & Vicken Gormley, Mark Hodgkins, Glenn Howells, David & Mary Lodge, Tim Oldham, David & Ethne Owen, Midge Skene, Richard Verdi, Jonathan Watkins. To make a donation visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk, call 0121 248 0708 or text IKON01 £5 to 70070.

Slow Boat is an innovative project (2011–2013) exploring in-depth and sustained work with 15–19 year olds. This group of Birmingham-based young people, known as the Ikon Youth Programme (IYP), have produced, presented and promoted their own work as well as that of other artists on board a converted 22-metre canal boat. Slow Boat to Navinland, led by Slow Boat 2013 artist Navin Rawanchaikul, involved a journey from Birmingham along the Canal & River Trust’s West Midlands, Central Shires and East Midlands Waterways. Navin and IYP spent time exploring Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester and Coventry, meeting other young people, artists and the diverse communities based around the waterways. To celebrate our collaboration with the Canal & River Trust we present a new film, Slow Boat to Navinland. Visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk for screening details. www.ikonslowboat.com  Follow us on Twitter @ikonslowboat

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The Jones family

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Ikon Youth Programme at Coventry basin, August 2013

Associated Events Breaking Through: Get That First Start in the Creative and Cultural Sector Tuesday 1 October, 6–8pm – FREE This session for young people, aged 16–24, provides information and guidance about presenting yourself effectively: on paper, online and in person. Find out how to get your CV, portfolio or application noticed by employers. Only 16 places available, please book via www.breaking-through.eventbrite.com or contact Sam at Creative Alliance on 0121 224 7308. Slow Boat at the BCNS Bonfire Rally and Firework Display Saturday 2 November, 6.30–8pm – FREE Boat Gathering on the Engine Branch (Adjacent to the Smethwick Enterprise Centre off Rolfe Street) Rolfe Street, Smethwick B66 2AR Members of IYP join members of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society to celebrate their annual Bonfire Rally. www.bcnsociety.co.uk

Life:Still Showcase

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26 September – 6 October (closed 3 October) 11am–6pm – FREE Ikon Events Room Life:Still is an ongoing project developing dialogue between Ikon and Birmingham’s John Taylor Hospice. The unique history of the hospice, as the former home of photographer and politician Sir Benjamin Stone (1838–1914), has led Life:Still to take inspiration from the collection of Stone’s images housed in the Library of Birmingham’s photographic archive. People receiving long-term palliative care have worked with artist Stuart Whipps to create photographs that reflect their life experiences and present surroundings.

Family Workshop Saturday 5 October, 1–4pm – FREE Open to all ages (adults very welcome), this familyfriendly, creative workshop explores the theme of family histories using the showcase as starting point. No need to book, just drop in.

For this showcase Whipps has curated photographs and audio created with people receiving care through the ‘Hospice at Home’ approach. Themes of isolation, separation and transition have been explored and the results are poignant, providing a unique opportunity for dialogue on the taboo subject of death and dying.

Artists in Creative Education: Pakistan and UK During 2013 Ikon has collaborated on an international partnership between Creativity, Culture & Education (CCE), UK, Vasl Artists’ Collective, Karachi, Pakistan, and the British Council.

Project Showcase 2–7 November, 11am–6pm – FREE Ikon Events Room Documentation and photographic works made during the project, both in the UK and Pakistan. International Perspectives: A Pakistan and UK Artists’ Exchange Wednesday 6 November, 6.30–8pm – FREE Meet the artists involved in this innovative project and hear more from teachers and staff as they discuss the benefits to schools and pupils. Part of the 2013 engage International Conference fringe events. www.engage.org/conference

In May, three artists from Birmingham and three from Karachi took part in a training programme at Ikon, led by CCE, to support them working in schools. Karachi-based artists Mariyam Iftikar, Sara Khan and Sara Mahmood spent three weeks shadowing UK artists Bharti Patel, Shaheen Ahmed and Mahtab Hussain at five schools in Birmingham. In September 2013 the Birmingham artists visit five schools in Karachi. The project culminates in a showcase at Ikon in November and a conference in Pakistan in 2014. This project aims to develop the artists’ practice in encouraging students’ creativity and supporting teachers to develop creative approaches to learning.

Family Events

Schools Events

Free drop-in activities

ARTiculation – Sixth Form Discovery Event Thursday 3 October, 10am–3pm – FREE A unique opportunity for sixth form art and design students (Year 12/13) and their teachers to join in creative workshops designed to support and develop understanding and engagement with art and increase confidence in public speaking skills. At the end of the session every student can deliver their research and personal responses in short group presentations. Produced in collaboration with The Roche Court Educational Trust. Places are free but must be booked by calling Ikon on 0121 248 078 or email [email protected]

For all ages No need to book, stay for as long as you like Family Saturday Saturday 5 October, 1–4pm – FREE Inspired by Ikon’s project with John Taylor Hospice Saturday 2 November, 1–4pm – FREE Handsworth stories and creative writing with local children’s author Mandy Ross Open to all ages (adults very welcome), these afternoons of creative activities engage, challenge and inspire. Family Workshops The Big Draw and Family Arts Festival with BCMG: Musicadoodle-do Monday 28 October, 12–5pm – FREE mac birmingham Thursday 31 October, 1–4pm – FREE Ikon Gallery As part of The Big Draw (1 October – 3 November) and the Family Arts Festival, the first UK-wide festival of family arts events (18 October – 3 November), Ikon and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group present two afternoons of all things ‘drawing with sound’. Have a go at making your own visual score for musicians to perform and make live drawings to music. Free drop-in sessions, no need to book. www.bcmg.org.uk www.familyartsfestival.com

The Big Draw Saturday 12 October, 12–2pm and 3–5pm – FREE Explore bold colour, abstract patterns and architectural forms with cut paper and print, inspired by the Hurvin Anderson exhibition. Run by young people and their teachers for other young people and families. The workshop leaders are participants in the TEA programme (Thinking, Expression and Action: Learning through Drawing). Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708. www.campaignfordrawing.org 4MAT Network Meeting for Midlands Art Teachers Wednesday 6 November, 5–8pm – FREE 4MAT is the regional teachers’ network that meets regularly, providing opportunities to share advice, expertise and experience whilst making new connections with colleagues from across the region. Join us for our special evening event to hear more about Ikon’s latest international project linking artists and schools in the UK and Pakistan. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.

Creative workshops Activities aimed at specific age groups

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Mahtab Hussain with pupils from Selly Park Technology College for Girls

Parent and toddler morning Wednesday 9 October, 10–11am £2 per child, payable on the day This gallery-based session is for parents with toddlers aged 0–3 years. Places are limited and should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.

All events take place at Ikon Gallery unless otherwise stated. Children should be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Public Events

Spotlight Tours Every Friday, 1pm and Sunday, 3pm – FREE Join a member of our staff team for a 15 minute spotlight tour looking at a key work in the exhibition. No need to book, meet in Ikon foyer. Afternoon Tea Thursday 3 October, 2.30–4.30pm – FREE* Join us for an exhibition tour, followed by tea, cake and chat in Café Opus at Ikon. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708. *Suggested £4 donation for refreshments BSL Exhibition Tour Thursday 10 October, 1–3pm – FREE Join a member of the Learning Team for an informal exhibition tour with British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation. Suitable for Deaf visitors and their friends and family. A fitted induction loop is available. Places are free but should be reserved by emailing [email protected] or calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708. Practical Workshop for Adults Friday 11 October, 2–4.30pm – £4 per person* Join us for a gallery-based session aimed specifically at adults. These afternoons provide an informal and fun way to explore the current exhibition. Places are limited. Booking essential, please visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call Ikon Shop on 0121 248 0711. *Cost includes refreshments and materials. Audio Described Introductory Tour Thursday 24 October, 2–3pm – FREE Join us for an informal audio described introduction to our current exhibition with a focus on two key works. Suitable for blind and partially sighted visitors and their friends and family. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708. Book Launch: Books! by Charlie Hill Tuesday 5 November, 7–8.30pm – FREE Ikon hosts the launch of Books!, the second novel by Birmingham-based writer Charlie Hill. A comedy of ideas looking at how we engage with art and literature, one whole chapter is set in Ikon where the two main characters visit a Richard Billingham retrospective. Published by the Tindal Street Press imprint of Profile Books. Hill is in conversation with Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Director and the event includes a book signing. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.

Birmingham Literature Festival 3–12 October 2013 This year’s Birmingham Literature Festival (formerly Birmingham Book Festival) includes approximately 50 events over ten days, hosted at a variety of venues including Birmingham Cathedral, Ikon Gallery and the new Library of Birmingham. A project of Writing West Midlands www.writingwestmidlands.org For more details or to book tickets visit www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org or call 0121 245 4455 (unless otherwise stated).

Events at Ikon Gallery Rosie Garland and The Palace of Curiosities Saturday 5 October, 7–8.30pm – £8/£6 (concs.) Author Rosie Garland transforms Ikon through her novel The Palace of Curiosities and a circus troupe of the same name, offering all the atmosphere, wonderment and fun of a Victorian fairground. www.rosiegarland.com Tell Me On A Sunday: Special Edition Sunday 6 October, 6–7.30pm – FREE (Story Supper in Café Opus at Ikon, 5–6pm) Tell Me On A Sunday, Ikon and Writing West Midlands’ storytelling from life project returns for a special edition, bringing you the very best of 2013 plus guests. Places are free but should be booked by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708. The event is preceded by Story Supper, 5–6pm (to book call Café Opus at Ikon on 0121 248 3226). Art in the Heart: Poetry and Visual Art Book Launch Tuesday 8 October, 7–8.30pm – FREE Art in the Heart is a celebration of the diverse exhibitions taking place across the West Midlands in 2013, with a specially commissioned poetry programme led by local poet Philip Monks. Join us for the launch of a unique publication combining images and poetry from Art in the Heart, published by Five Seasons Press. www.artintheheart.org.uk

Discovery: New Beginnings with Writers Without Borders Thursday 10 October, 7–8.30pm – FREE Writers Without Borders was originally formed as a group to give refugees a voice in a foreign land, and has now grown into a truly international melting pot. In this performance, and in response to Ikon’s Hurvin Anderson exhibition, the group share their experiences and adventures of moving from places, from relationships, and from mental states. www.wwborg.wordpress.com Book Launch Catherine O’Flynn: Mr Lynch’s Holiday Friday 11 October, 7.30–9pm – £8/£6 (concs.) Ikon hosts the launch of a charming and comic new novel by Catherine O’Flynn, the best-selling and prize-winning author of What Was Lost and The News Where You Are. This new book focuses on family relationships and the clash of generations. www.catherineoflynn.com

Winter Art Fair

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Tim Johnson Kali (2012) Oil on canvas Courtesy the artist

29 November – 1 December – FREE First Floor Galleries Friday 29 November, 6–8pm Saturday 30 November, 11am–6pm Sunday 1 December, 11am–2pm Four of Birmingham’s leading contemporary art galleries collaborate to present a special Winter Art Fair. Ikon, Eastside Projects, The Lombard Method and Grand Union show art for sale by international and British artists including Rachel Adams, Helen Brown, Hamish Fulton, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Juneau Projects, Joanne Masding, Mike Nelson, Cornelia Parker, Stuart Whipps and Yangjiang Group. The fair features a range of affordable works – including limited edition prints, posters, books and sculptures – suitable for the home or office, as an investment or a great Christmas gift. Prices range from £10 to £5000 with all profits directly supporting the galleries. For details of work for sale plus special events with artists, curators and local collectors visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

Future Ikon Exhibitions 11 November – 3 December 2013 (except 29 November – 1 December) Ikon is undertaking essential building maintenance. Galleries are closed during this time however Ikon Shop and Café Opus at Ikon are open as usual.

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Grand Union Juneau Projects Chaser, Ambusher, Fickle, Stupid (2010) Edition of 25, £150 unframed

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Eastside Projects Yangjiang Group One Day In Birmingham (2012) Edition of 30, £200 unframed

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The Lombard Method Rachel Adams Optictocks (2013) Unique works, £150–£300

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Ikon Hamish Fulton From A to B Switzerland, 1995 (2012) Edition of 100, £90 unframed

Tim Johnson The Luminescent Ground 4 December 2013 – 9 February 2014 An exhibition of recent and new paintings by Tim Johnson, an Australian artist primarily concerned with the communication of unseen phenomena and visionary in his apprehension of spiritual dimensions through artistic practice. His style of painting is eclectic in the extreme, owing much to indigenous traditions of the Central Desert. David Tremlett 3 Drawing Rooms 4 December 2013 – 21 April 2014 British artist David Tremlett is best known for his large-scale, site-specific wall drawings of geometric arrangements: abstract compositions of arcs, circles, trapezoids, text and line. Tremlett uses pastel pigment applied by hand to make these installations.

Ikon Elsewhere Four Corners of the World Exhibition 3 September – 14 December 2013 Hite Foundation, Seoul, Korea Ikon’s Director, Jonathan Watkins, curates this exhibition of work by eight artists who come from the four corners of the world: Hurvin Anderson (UK), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), Marcel Dzama (Canada), Bernard Frize (France), Tim Johnson (Australia), On Kawara (Japan), Beatriz Milhazes (Brazil) and Amikam Toren (Israel/UK). Stylistically diverse, working in a variety of media and drawn from distinctly different aesthetic traditions, they share a commitment to the expression of thoughts and feelings within the assumed rectangular format of painting.

About Ikon

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Thank You

Ikon is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art venue situated in central Birmingham. Housed in the neo-gothic Oozells Street School, it is an educational charity and works to encourage public engagement with contemporary art through exhibiting new work in a context of debate and participation.

Visitor Resource Room on the second floor is a place for visitors to find out more about the artists showing at Ikon. A filmed interview, texts and books give background information to the exhibitions. The room is also a place for families to enjoy creative practical activities.

Ikon would like to thank the following for their invaluable support over the past 12 months The Baring Foundation; BBC; School of Art, Birmingham City University; Birmingham Library and Archive Services, Birmingham City University; Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Charitable Trust; W A Cadbury Charitable Trust; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Canal & River Trust; The W E Dunn Trust; John Feeney Charitable Trust; The George Fentham Birmingham Charity; Grantham Yorke Trust; The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation; Grundtvig; Paul Hamlyn Foundation; The Henry Moore Foundation; Institut Français Royaume-Uni; Japan Foundation; The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation; Media Archive for Central England; Mirage Associates; The Owen Family Trust; Pro Helvetia; Programme de résidences / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès; Russell Adams Golf Academy; The Saintbury Trust; Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain; Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company; V.G.S. (Virtual Golf Systems: Solutions: Simulators).

The gallery programme features artists from around the world. A variety of media is represented, including sound, film, mixed media, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. Ikon’s off-site programme develops dynamic relationships between art, artists and audiences outside the gallery. Projects vary enormously in scale, duration and location, challenging expectations of where art can be seen and by whom. Education is at the heart of Ikon’s activities, stimulating public interest in and understanding of contemporary visual art. Through a variety of talks, tours, workshops and seminars, the Learning Team aim to build a meaningful relationship with Ikon’s audience that enables visitors to engage with, discuss and reflect on contemporary art.

Gallery Tours and creative workshops are available to a variety of groups to get the most out of each exhibition. Call the Learning Team for more information on 0121 248 0708. Ikon Online at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk offers full details of our exhibitions and events plus downloadable gallery guides. Watch installation videos, listen to interviews with artists and browse the online shop for Ikon catalogues and limited edition prints.

Access Ikon aims to be fully accessible for disabled visitors. A wheelchair is available, a lift operates throughout the building and guests with guide dogs are welcome. There is a fitted induction loop to enhance the sound for visitors with hearing impairment and disabled parking is located outside the gallery on Oozells Street. Large print versions of the Ikon bulletin and exhibition guides are available on request.

Stay in Touch

Ikon Gallery Limited trading as Ikon. Registered address: 1 Oozells Square, Birmingham b1 2hs. Ikon is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council. Registered Charity no. 528892. Printed in Warwickshire by Emmersons, an ISO 9001 and 14001 certified print company.

To join our free mailing list call 0121 248 0708 or visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk. You can also follow Ikon on Facebook and Twitter.

Facilities Ikon Shop is Birmingham’s only specialist art bookshop, stocking a range of books and magazines on contemporary art and culture. Students receive a 10% discount (conditions apply). Shop online at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call 0121 248 0711. Open during exhibition installations. Café Opus at Ikon is a modern British café, featuring classic dishes sourced from high quality producers. Families welcome. Call 0121 248 3226 to book.

The Baring Foundation

Support Ikon As a charity, Ikon needs your support. We rely on donations from individuals and businesses to fund what we do. If you would like to support us, whether by making a donation, becoming a patron or leaving a legacy, visit www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or call 0121 248 0708. Corporate Patrons Deutsche Bank; EY; Glenn Howells Architects; Hilton Garden Inn Birmingham Brindleyplace; SACO Serviced Apartments; Wragge&Co. Individual Patrons Adrian Bland; Simon Chapman, Patzi Haslimann; Tom Jones; Stephen Pallister; Midge Skene; Mr & Mrs A E Taylor. Ikon would also like to thank all those individuals who make a donation during their visit. Exhibition supporters Hurvin Anderson’s exhibition reporting back is supported by the Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London and John Feeney Charitable Trust. Project supporters Slow Boat is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Canal & River Trust and Sandwell Council. Life:Still is supported by The Baring Foundation. Ikon’s core Learning programme is supported by Arts Connect West Midlands. AiCE is supported by CCE.

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Galleries closed 16–24 September and 11 November – 3 December for installation of new exhibitions and essential building maintenance. Ikon is open Bank Holiday Mondays. What’s on elsewhere www.brindleyplace.com www.visitbirmingham.com www.heartofenglandgalleries.org.uk www.artintheheart.org.uk Cover image: Hurvin Anderson Peter’s IV (Pioneer) (2007) Oil on linen Private collection

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Getting to Ikon Pedestrian route from New Street train station From New Street station walk to Chamberlain Square, then up the curved steps to the Central Library, through Paradise Forum and into Centenary Square. Bear left onto Broad Street, passing the Hyatt Hotel on the left, then turn right into Oozells Street. This walk takes approximately 15 minutes. By road Birmingham is accessible by the M5, M6, M40 and M42 motorways. Drivers should follow signs to Birmingham City Centre then look for the brown tourist signs to the International Convention Centre, National Indoor Arena, Canals and Brindleyplace. Car and bicycle parking The nearest car park is Q-Park Brindleyplace on Brunswick Street (pre-book and quote IKON for 10% discount at www.q-park.co.uk/parking/ birmingham/q-park-brindleyplace). Orange and blue badge holders may park on the double yellow lines on Oozells Street in accordance with badge guidelines. There is a bicycle rack near Ikon. Local accommodation www.birminghambrindleyplace.hgi.com www.sacoapartments.co.uk