Lucy Ward’s atmospheric landscapes explore how changes in light or weather can make us react differently to a familiar scene, and her dramatic shadows create a feeling of suspense.

Emily Hunt explores the history of witchcraft, the persecution of women and the relevance of these topics today. Crystal Radio Geist,  includes new ceramic installations, paintings and etchings. Hunt takes influence from the history of ornament, visionary art, big-ego personalities and scholarly magical texts.

Brianna Rose Brooks and Leyla Faye send their respective likenesses back in time for an intimate redrawing of their earlier worlds.  Throughout the exhibition of new work, A Requiem for Benevolent Beasts, the artists’ childhood avatars share a confabulatory gossip, a lamentation, and a celebration across the gallery space

Drawn to the natural geometry of the landscape, this show focuses on the landscape of two places, Orkney in Scotland, & Hydra in Greece. Vanessa’s says, “There is a beauty and force connecting these distantly placed islands” .  In this collection Vanessa explores the different colours and shapes of the extraordinary cliffs, tidal islands, seas […]

Maré is an exhibition of works by Marina Rheingantz that is dense in paint and often expansive in scale.   Her landscapes impart the experience of seeing distant, vanishing horizons and wide, panoramic views. Formed by an accumulation of paint, her works are characterised by their rich surface texture, sense of mass and dissolution of image.  […]

Limbo Along Brass Tracks, is an exhibition of new work by Anika Roach, who makes paintings that are compellingly enigmatic; comical as well disturbing. The characters who inhabit her world might find themselves in situations that allude to grief, loss, violence, confusion and the complications of gender and race, but they are tempered by a nod […]

In The Serpent’s Tail, artists Rike Droescher and Zoe Koke draw on ancient references, represented by the Ouroboros, an archetypal symbol of a serpent eating its own tail. Traced back to Ancient Egypt, the symbol cycled between various spiritual and mythological traditions, forging an ubiquitous meaning of perpetuity. By questioning linear narratives, the exhibition is […]

Landmarks, is an exhibition by Jananne Al-Ani that spans more than two decades of photographic and moving image work.  It focusses on Al-Ani's longstanding interest in the disappearance of the body in highly charged and contested landscapes. The exhibition highlights Al-Ani’s latest film, Sounds of War II (2023); it combines subtly animated archival images with […]

La Matrona, Cristina BanBan’s exhibition features a series of eleven new paintings.  The exhibition extends BanBan’s explorations of the female body, serving as a conduit for universal ideas in addition to personal introspections. By continuously working within the constraints of familiar forms and subjects, BanBan has pushed against their limits to hone in on the […]

With ‘Free Fall,’ Avery Singer reflects upon her personal experience of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and explores the wider societal impact of collective trauma, and proliferating image culture and media dissemination. Based entirely upon Singer’s childhood memories, the works and architectural intervention in ‘Free Fall’ are […]

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 […]

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. The works on display charts the meteoric rise of the woodcut technique in Europe. Accompanying this historic display is There Goes the Sun, an exhibition […]