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This Could Happen to You
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition which surveys Ikon Gallery's artistic programme during c.1970 – 1978. It is the second chapter in the story of Ikon, following on from their 2004 exhibition, The best things in life happen accidentally, featuring work by founder artists, their colleagues, friends and acquaintances. The ethos they instilled in the organisation, whereby an emphasis on aesthetic innovation was matched by efforts towards greater accessibility, was assumed by their successors as they engaged in a bigger picture that involved artists from further afield in the UK, and occasionally from abroad. The catalogue contains biographies of all the artists in the exhibition, material from the 70s found in Ikon's archive, installation photographs and essays.
Roger Hiorns
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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...
Artists for Ikon
This exhibition catalogue celebrates the culmination of Ikon's 50th anniversary. Artists for Ikon shows work generously donated by of some of today's most important artists, all of whom have exhibited at Ikon or are included in future projects. Artists include: Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Martin Creed, Ian Davenport, Richard Deacon, Matias Faldbakken, Ryan Gander, Antony Gormley, Carmen Herrera, Roger Hiorns, Dennis Oppenheim, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, and Giuseppe Penone among others. The exhibition is followed by a major art auction at Sotheby's, London, in July 2015. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artists for Ikon at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 24 April - 4 May 2015.
Self Evident
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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-
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.
Stacked Hotel Room
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The Go-Between
WINNER OF THE BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de Waal A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout migrant Muslim patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities. Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the Birmingham of Osman's childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his teenage years. Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realise it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between.
