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Some of the Best Things in Life Happen Accidentally
This book is published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Ikon Gallery, founded in 1963 as a 'gallery without walls', and started as a co-operative of artist-volunteers to challenge a conservative local art world. It contains an essay describing Ikon's early years by the existing director, Jonathan Watkins, and interviews with its six founding artists as well as biographies of 12 artists associated with the gallery during the 1960s and a list of Ikon exhibitions from 1965 - 72. Published to accompany the exhibition Some of the Best Things in Life Happen Accidentally: The Beginning of Ikon at Ikon Gallery, 28 July - 12 September 2004
Roger Hiorns
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Claustrophobia
Exhibition artists: Arkley, Howard, 1951-; Barth, Uta, 1958-; Bennett, Mark, 1956-; Casebere, James, 1953-; Collishaw, Mat, 1966-; Eskdale, Carolyn, 1963-; Friend, Melanie, 1957-; Hatoum, Mona, 1952-; Kaur, Permindar, 1965-; Müller, Matthias, 1961-; Salcedo, Doris, 1958-; Saunders, Nina, 1958-; Temin, Kathy, 1968-; Vaisman, Meyer, 1960-; Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-; Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon
This book presents the shared sculptures and drawings of Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon. It showcases the work they have made together over the last thirty years, exhibition by exhibition. The introductory text explores the ways in which their shared sculptures have led them both into new artistic terrain, outside their individual practices.
Kristof Kintera
Ikon presents the most comprehensive UK exhibition of work by Czech artist Kristof Kintera (b. 1973, Prague).00Internationally acclaimed for his sculptural, often kinetic works imbued with a characteristic energy and imaginative wit, Kintera offers an overview of new, recent, and archival works, shown in the UK for the first time.00THE END OF FUN! is a timely exhibition probing the apocalyptic environmental issues we currently face, taking on a new poignancy in today?s climate.00Crafted with a dark sense of humour, Kintera?s artistic practice addresses current affairs. Striking a balance between feigned triviality and fatality, his works comprise a lively and philosophical critique of hyper-capitalist systems, especially with respect to ecological concerns.00Exhibition: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (17.09.-22.11.2020).
Northerners
The word 'northern' conjures plenty of stereotypical images; men in flat caps, cobbled streets, pies and rain. But beyond the clichés lies a region rich in its diversity, devilish in its humour and fertile in its culture, and it is these characteristics that iconic photographer Sefton Samuels has captured faithfully over four decades, and are compiled here in Northerners. Described by the Guardian as 'the photographic equivalent of Ken Loach', Samuels shot legendary figures of northern life, from Alan Bennett to Morrissey, LS Lowry to George Best and Sir Ben Kingsley, but most famously and vividly he captured the realities of everyday life across the north. With snatched shots of children cheekily mugging to his camera, pictures of the more grandiose members of society at the local hunt, photos of the bleaker side of life with the riots in Moss Side, and snaps of the young and fashionable posing as they hang around with nothing to do, Northerners reveals a photographer at one with his subject; and a region whose open character was meant to be captured through a lens.
At Home with Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke, born in Jamaica in 1951, resident in Birmingham since 1965, is renowned as a photographer concerned especially with black culture in Britain.Burke has had numerous exhibitions surveying his career as an artist, and these have sometimes included material from his archive, a vast collection including printed material (posters, flyers, publications), clothes, records, ornaments and countless other items that provide invaluable insights into Britain's African and Caribbean communities. The religious and political beliefs of black people at home here, their artistic activities, fashions and leisure pursuits, food, health issues and many other aspects of everyday life are all equally...
Victor Man
Ikon presents the first UK museum exhibition, the largest to date, of acclaimed Romanian artist Victor Man. Born in Transylvania, Man's work brings together disparate references to his birthplace with its 'folk' traditional and myths, as well as allusions to more recent Eastern European history.This exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Centre international d'art et du paysage de l' ile de Vassiviere, comprises new painting and sculpture. Richly evocative, dark in both palette and imagery, to suggest a voyeuristic gaze, Man's works signify an alternative world beyond familiar experience. This is enhanced by the artist's technique of using a 'black' mirror, a device which distances the act of visualisation for both himself and us. Images of women, wolves and gloves recur across several pieces, sometimes eroticised; notions of the unconscious, a surreal nether-world where new codes exist are conveyed."
This Could Happen to You
A survey of Ikon Gallery's artistic programme during c. 1970-1978. The second chapter of the story of Ikon. Accompanies the exhibition held at the Ikon Gallery, 21 July - 5 September 2010.
Middle England
This is the first major exhibition by Midlands-based artist John Myers. Comprising black and white photographs made in the 1970s, Ikon's selection includes Middle England (1970-1974), a number of portraits of individuals and families living in and around Stourbridge and the Black Country.Myers' approach is documentary in style, reflecting the taste, self-perceptions and aspirations of the people he photographed. Thus we observe them in their sitting rooms and bedrooms, or in their leisure or work spaces, surrounded by the telling paraphernalia of their daily lives. They pose with deliberate stances and gestures, responding to the sense of occasion engendered by Myers' use of a Gandolfi plate camera set on a tripod with a dark viewing cloth. As well as domestic interiors, occupied particularly by couples and women, we see the studio where a young girl attends ballet classes, the back yard where a boy plays football and a club where two men play snooker.
