Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 2HS
England

Website

www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

Telephone

Information

0121 248 0708

Ikon Shop

0121 248 0711

Café Ikon

0121 248 3226

Gallery hire

0121 248 0708

Fax

0121 248 0709

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Ikon Gallery is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art venue situated in the refurbished neo-gothic Oozells Street School building in Brindleyplace, central Birmingham. Ikon shows a varied programme of exhibitions which change every two months, along with a series of talks, tours, workshops and seminars.

Venue Type:

Gallery

Opening hours

Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm

Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays, and during installation of exhibitions. Please call to confirm opening times

General services and facilities

Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
General audio-guide available
Information point provided
Pre-booking service for groups
Cafeteria
Restaurant
Shop

Children and families

Activities for pre-school children
Events and resources for children and families
Baby changing facilities

Disability access

Braille information and/or interpretation
Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
Induction loops in exhibition spaces
Large print information and/or interpretation
Parking for disabled available
Toilets for disabled
Wheelchair access to all public areas
Wheelchairs available for loan

Schools services and facilities

Direct teaching services for schools
Member of staff available with responsibility for education
Education facilities available

Research and adult learning

Academic publications and resources available
Adult lectures and courses held

Commercial and hire services

Facilities for private functions and events
Meeting room available

Additional info

Ikon Resource Room: Situated on the 2nd floor, the Resource Room is a public space offering interpretative material for main gallery exhibitions.

Ikon Shop: Ikon has an on-site specialist art bookshop plus an online shop at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk Opening times are Tuesday - Sunday 10.30am-6pm. Open during installation of exhibitions.
T: 0121 248 0711.

Café Ikon: an informal, modern Tapas bar. Opening times are Tuesday - Saturday 11am-11pm, Sunday 11am-6pm. Open during installation of exhibitions.T: 0121 248 3226.

Ikon Gallery Hire: If you are interested in hiring the Galleries or Events/Meeting Room for a private function or meeting please telephone Ikon Marketing on 0121 248 0708 for a copy of our brochure and current rates.

Access: Ikon Gallery aims to be fully accessible to disabled visitors. A wheelchair and audio guide are available on request. Guide dogs are welcome throughout the building. If you require assistance, please telephone 0121 248 0708 or ask at the reception desk.

1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 2HS
England

Website

www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

Telephone

Information

0121 248 0708

Ikon Shop

0121 248 0711

Café Ikon

0121 248 3226

Gallery hire

0121 248 0708

Fax

0121 248 0709

Ikon shows a continuous programme of changing exhibitions both in the galleries and offsite. A variety of media are represented including sound, video, mixed media, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. As well as exhibitions in the gallery, exhibitions and projects also take place regularly in Ikon's Events Room and Tower room.

Collection details

Decorative and Applied Art, Film and Media, Fine Art, Photography

Collections services

Specialist publications on collections available

1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 2HS
England

Website

www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

Telephone

Information

0121 248 0708

Ikon Shop

0121 248 0711

Café Ikon

0121 248 3226

Gallery hire

0121 248 0708

Fax

0121 248 0709

Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Hamish Fulton

15 February — 22 April 2012

This exhibition, a major collaboration between Ikon and Turner Contemporary, Margate is the first museum show for British artist Hamish Fulton since his retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002. Fulton describes himself as a “walking artist”, with his work joining the two separate disciplines of walking and art. The exhibition consists of wall drawings with text and touches on a range of non-art issues that preoccupy the artist, in particular the call for political independence for Tibet. Fulton also leads a walk specifically for Ikon.

Suitable for

11-13
14-15
18+
16-17

Website

http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/577/hamish_fulton/

Sarah Browne: How to Use Fool’s Gold

15 February — 22 April 2012

Ikon presents the first UK solo exhibition by Dublin-based artist Sarah Browne, a survey of film and sculptural works, including the artist’s entry for the 2009 Venice Biennale. Using ‘the economy’ as the basis for her artistic practice, Browne works with small communities of people, documenting resourceful forms of exchange such as gifting, subsistence, poaching and subsidies, to reveal the hidden social relations that exist in small-scale economic structures.

On 17 February 2012, in the midst of an unfolding European currency crisis, the Central Bank of France ceases to exchange French francs for euros, ending a system that has continued since the introduction of the euro and thus marking the demise of the franc altogether. Browne’s film Second Burial at Le Blanc (2011) follows a procession through Le Blanc, a small French town where local merchants have continued to accept francs for goods and services. At the centre of this procession is Browne’s bespoke ‘ticker-tape countdown clock’, a glass-domed mechanism counting down the hours, minutes and seconds of the franc’s existence. Accompanying the film are two newspapers, distributed at Ikon and in Le Blanc, visual essays that weave together historical and anthropological information related to the work.

Several of Browne’s works explore redundant technologies and leftover industries. Her Carpet for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2009) is made from surplus wool stocks from the Donegal Carpets factory. Once renowned for its hand-knotted carpets adorning Irish embassies around the globe, Donegal now produces carpets by machine or outsourced labour. The artist’s carpet was hand-knotted by two of the factory’s previous female employees and the design, reminiscent of Irish modernist Eileen Gray, was dictated by the proportions of surplus wool remaining at the old factory, now converted into a ‘heritage centre’.

A Model Society (2007) stems from research – undertaken prior to the recent financial crisis – in which Iceland was declared the happiest nation on earth. Browne advertised for knitwear models in Reykjavik newspapers and then surveyed respondents about the quality of life in Iceland. The models are presented within iconic Icelandic landscapes, wearing traditional lopi sweaters in which selected phrases from their comments, such as ‘no war’ and ‘rotten politics’, have been knitted. In works like these, the artist taps into the personal, emotional underpinnings of both national identity and macroeconomic forces.

Suitable for

14-15
16-17
18+

Website

http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/578/how_to_use_fools_gold/

1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
West Midlands
B1 2HS
England

Website

www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

Telephone

Information

0121 248 0708

Ikon Shop

0121 248 0711

Café Ikon

0121 248 3226

Gallery hire

0121 248 0708

Fax

0121 248 0709

Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.

Resources