Tag: Ikon Gallery

  • Angela de la Cruz: Upright

    The Spanish artist’s twisted canvases and collapsed objects are a reflection of the adaptability of the human body in the face of frailty and vulnerability, echoing her own resilience after a brain injury

  • Seulgi Lee: Span

    Collaborating with craftspeople from around the world, Lee incorporates traditional techniques into elegant works that engage the eyes and the imagination

  • Htein Lin: Escape

    The Burmese artist has been jailed many times and this show includes some of the remarkable paintings and drawings he created while held as a political prisoner

  • Mahtab Hussain: What Did You Want to See?

    With portraits of mosques and people at prayer, the British Asian artist documents the racist stereotyping typically experienced by Muslims across his home city of Birmingham

  • Friends in Love and War

    Children scrapping, lovers embracing, the pain of losing a loved one, even Brexit, all demonstrate the pain and pleasure of friendships and falling out in this fascinating group show

  • Dion Kitson: Rue Britannia* and Silver Lining**

    From pool cues resembling mops to a re-creation of a landfill pile, Kitson’s witty sculptures at the Ikon Gallery are a comment on class, identity and the state of modern Britain, while an old silver factory provides the setting for…

  • Osman Yousefzada – interview: ‘Opening doors for other people is key to what I do’

    He has dressed Beyoncé, wrapped Selfridges in Birmingham in a giant canvas, had a solo show at the V&A and written a memoir about his childhood as the son of immigrant parents. Here, he discusses his multidisciplinary approach to work…

  • Edward Lear: Moment to Moment

    The Victorian comic poet is revealed as a fascinating artist in this no-nonsense survey of his sketches and landscape drawings

  • Abdulrazaq Awofeso: Out of Frame

    Scavenged wooden pallets provide the material for Awofeso’s carved figurative sculptures, standing as a metaphor for migration and the uncertainty that faces many migrants – including the artist himself

  • Britta Marakatt-Labba: Under the Vast Sky

    Miniature hand-stitched worlds hide darker themes – climate change, corporate exploitation, right-wing extremism and the constant threat to the way of life of the Indigenous Sámi people of northern Europe