A presentation by Judith Lauand (1922-2022), of works from the 1950s-1970s that reflect her important contributions to the Concrete movement, and her experimental deviations into Pop art. This comes at a moment of celebration and re-evaluation of this pivotal figure of geometric abstraction, following Lauand's major retrospective at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo […]
Francis Hamel’s new exhibition, Thirty Gardens, is the result of an eighteen-month painting odyssey taking the artist to some of the country’s most beautiful locations. Painting at dawn and dusk, when the light is low, shadows are long and gardens are at their most magical, Hamel’s paintings delight in unexpected views, and the search for those […]
‘New; Unknown’ is an exhibition by Melanie Miller, who makes paintings in oil on traditional gesso ground, which follow a classic tradition of still life and are inspired by her immediate environment. She also makes assemblage installations, often inside small boxes. Using collaged elements with found and cast objects from the natural world, viewers can […]
Nicole Eisenman's exhibition, What Happened, brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career. Encompassing large-scale, monumental paintings alongside sculptures, monoprints, animation and drawings, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range and formal inventiveness that characterises her practice.
Each Moment Presents What Happens, is a moving image work from Johanna Billing, which continues her interest in improvisation, collaboration and education. Billing’s work explores the idea of performance and the possibility it holds to impact the public and the private, as well as the individual and the collective.
This archival exhibition presents a selection of Mendelssohn’s poetry and works on paper. Through the confluence of poetry and visual art, Mendelssohn explores—amongst other things—the socio-historical mechanisms which influence the creation and destruction of language in public and private spheres. Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess brings together works which examine how iniquities such as war, fascism, and […]
Angela Glajcar, sculpts in paper. By the processes of tearing, layering and puncturing, she transforms an ostensibly mundane and undifferentiated sheet material into complex structures that enclose, define and reveal hermetic and allusive three-dimensional spaces. The artist describes her method as ‘terforation’, a handmade physical interaction with her material which eschews anything but the most […]
Ikon tours Dreams of Brum, an exhibition of photographic portraits by Maryam Wahid at Handsworth Library. The portraits were taken during a series of creative community workshops with printmaker Haseebah Ali.
This exhibition examines Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s. It includes outfits that represent key moments in her biography and her creativity. High fashion from 1930s Europe and New York; jodhpurs, bathing wear and folk dress from travel and […]
The Devil is in the Detail offers a rare opportunity to see the complete set of Albrecht Dürer’s Great Passion, one of the most important series of woodcuts in his career. […]
And She Built a Crooked House, by Gemma Anderson-Tempini is a multifaceted installation taking audiences on a journey through the fourth spatial dimension that is part-experimental, part-factual, part-autobiographical. A 19th Century imagined space, the fourth spatial dimension sits alongside the understanding of a fourth dimension of time, providing fertile ground for creativity and innovation for generations. […]
The exhibition Women & Water explores the relationship between women and water in the works of 17 women artists, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present day. The exhibition examines how water has been used by artists both as subject matter and artistic medium to reflect the multiplicity of women’s experiences. Artists: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, […]
Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) lived and worked in New York all her life, becoming a central figure in the city’s Minimalist and Conceptual Art scene while defying that categorization, declaring “I am not a minimalist, I am a maximalist”. The exhibition shows her extensive practice from the 1960s onwards and include painting, work on paper, video, […]
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, brings together paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketches, as well as previously unseen archival material and personal belongings. Chronologically tracing Gwen John’s […]
Vanessa Pooley works with bronze and ceramic to create sculpture of mostly female forms with an individual and distinctive style.
This exhibition of sculptures by Emily Young is entitled ‘Pareidolia in Stone’. In it Young reveals and enhances the perception of delicate facial features and undulating feminine curves in her heads and torsos, without detracting from the exceptional natural beauty and profound importance of the ancient stones with which she works. These include lapis lazuli, […]
Divine Narratives brings together the works of Alice Maher, and Celine Bodin. Alice Maher’s series of drawings in watercolour and pencil, Women in Ecstasy, looks at female saints in ecstasy as depicted by many painters over the centuries. Céline Bodin's series, Venus Variations, explores the diverse representations in art of Aphrodite and Venus, delving into […]
Faye Eleanor Woods sensual paintings act as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the […]
Zarina Bhimji makes photographs, films and installations, which engage with themes such as institutional power and subjectivity. Her work grows from observation and felt sense and is rooted in a careful use of colour and light. Embracing slippages and ambiguities, it is evocative rather than descriptive or documentary in its pace, setting and mood.
In this exhibition by Elena Garrigolas, the presentation includes 17 new works depicting an eclectic array of visceral and bewildering imagery. Taking inspiration from dreamscapes, internet culture, and personal experience, Garrigolas twists banal scenes into outlandish and confronting self-portraits.