Tag: Ikon Gallery
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Mit Jai Inn: Dreamworld
Suffused with Buddhist philosophy overlaid with political overtones, the extraordinary works of this Thai artist can be touched, walked over and, in some cases, taken home for free
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John Newling: Dear Nature
Newling’s ecological artworks provoke questions about how we can work in harmony with nature and contribute to a sustainable future for all
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Meryl McMaster – interview: ‘I explore complex questions around one’s sense of self and belonging to two heritages’
McMaster, who often transforms herself into hybrid animal-human creatures for her photographs, discusses her show, As Immense as the Sky, at the Ikon Gallery, and how her mixed European and Plains Cree ancestry feeds into her work
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Hew Locke – interview: ‘A lot of my work has to do with the burden of history and … how history affects us today’
Hew Locke discusses monarchy, nationhood, bigotry, boats, Brexit and the seductive silliness of TV’s historical dramas, before the opening of his show at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
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Langlands & Bell – video interview: ‘We like to be catapulted into the unknown; we like a challenge’
For their new show at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, Langlands & Bell have turned their shared gaze on to the giants of the technological age – among them Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Facebook – and the structures they have created as…
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Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’
Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work
