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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Tasajara, is an exhibition of new works by Marine Wallon, with an accompanying booklet and an essay by Estelle Marois. Tasajera’s exploration encompasses various concepts related to images and landscapes, intriguing the viewer through the deconstruction of conventional visual representations. This comprehensive exhibition includes a diverse collection of artwork, spanning paintings, watercolors, and experimental etching […]
The art of Emily Avery Crow draws upon a myriad of traditions drawn from religious iconography, into settings that restore mythic and mystical settings. The appropriation of the sources of […]
Grace Ndiritu works across film, painting, textiles, performance and social practice. Her exhibition features the film Labour: Birth of a New Museum (2023). The intimate performance invites a group of pregnant […]
Otherwhere, Margarita Gluzberg’s exhibition, explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Gluzberg’s practice ranges from […]
A collection of powerful seascapes, huge skies, light breaking, storms brewing, and captured in Scotland, by Ethel Walker. She says, “There are moments when you don’t get those distinct horizontal […]
This exhibition is a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against […]