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Available from Ikon shop for a discounted price for the duration of the exhibition
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This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with essay by Ruth Noack — available from Ikon Shop.
The exhibition travels from Ikon Gallery Birmingham.
Not exact matches
He began taking pictures in 1980 when he received his first camera (a well used Zeiss Ikon Continamatic) from a favourite uncle.
Celebrating modern art from across the globe, Birmingham's Ikon Gallery is housed in a Victorian school building in Brindleyplace, beside the city's canals.
Ikon, a non-profit art center, sold photos from the series for about $ 420.
There is no more appropriate moment to examine new and recent contemporary art from Iraq and we are privileged that this talk will be led by curator and Director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Jonathan Watkins, who curated the highly acclaimed Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2013.
Extract from our April Diary featuring the director of Birmingham's Ikon gallery, Jonathan Watkins, on the museum's upcoming 50th anniversary
At Birmingham's Ikon Gallery from 10th October 2015 to 17th January 2016, Scroll Down And Keep Scrolling, is the most comprehensive exhibition of Fiona Banner's work to date, re-presenting key early projects alongside recent and unseen works that span a period of 25 years.This exhibition is accompanied by a major new artist's book of the same title.
Representatives from the following organisations will be in attendance Art Fund / Artangel / Arts Council England / East Street Arts / Edinburgh Art Festival / Elephant Magazine / FACT Liverpool / Glasgow School of Art / Hiscox / Holden Gallery / Ikon Gallery / Iniva / Jupiter Artland / Leeds Beckett University / Leeds College of Art / London College of Communication / Magnum Photos / Max Mara Art Prize for Women / Nesta / Nottingham Contemporary / Open Eye Gallery / PHOTOFAIRS / Photomonitor / Royal British Society of Sculptors / Tate Liverpool / University of York / Visual Arts South West / Wellcome Trust / Whitechapel Gallery / World Photography Organisation / York St John University / Zabludowicz Collection
Continental Shift - Artists from the African continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland 1999 From where - To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F. Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Ethno - antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Ffrom the African continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland 1999 From where - To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F. Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Ethno - antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A FFrom where - To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F. Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Ethno - antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Ffrom London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F. Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Ethno - antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Ffrom Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Ffrom the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Ffrom the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?
Ikon Gallery curator Nigel Prince, whose Shearer solo show travels to Toronto's Power Plant in December, spoke fondly of working with the artist, who graciously accepted accolades from all manner of well - wishers.
«Hurvin Anderson: Reporting Back» was at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, from 25 September — 10 November 2013.
Ikon at Plinth @ 44 Great Russell Street Birmingham's Ikon gallery visit london with a pop up exhibition taking over several floors of a Georgian house across the road from The British Museum.
This exhibition is the fruit of several years of joint curatorship and enthusiasm on behalf of Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló, Ikon Gallery from Birmingham, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and the Japan Foundation.
From 1994 - 95 the work toured to the following UK venues: Oriel Mostyn, Gwynedd, Wales (6 August - 10 September 1994); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (1 November 1994 - 15 January 1995); Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland (20 March - 30 April 1995); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (13 May - 24 June 1995); and the National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, Wales (8 July - 20 August 1995).
2008 Heralded as the new black, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Heralded as the new black, South London Gallery, London, UK Something Vague, St Gallen Kunstverein, Switzerland, CH Something Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE How I learnt to use my senses, how I learnt to think and how I learnt to feel, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP Championed by Rigour, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US And it came to life, Marz Galleria, Lisbon, PT Basquiat, STORE Gallery, London, UK 2007 GHOSTWRITER SUBTEXT (TOWARDS A SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PLAUSIBLE INTERROBANG), Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP More than the weight of your shadow, DAIWA Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, JP Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US Short cut through the trees, MUMOK, Vienna, AT The Last Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead (with Aurélien Froment), STORE, London, UK 2006 Ryan Gander, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT Ghostwriter Subtext, Premier Container, Art Basel Premier with STORE, Miami, US Didactease, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USCinema Verso, Whitechapel East Wing, London, UK Spencer, forget about good, Art Basel Unlimited with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH The title taken from reading that book (with George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kauffman, Zurich, CH Is This Guilt In You Too --(The study of a car in a field), MUMOK, Vienna, AT Your clumsiness is the next man's stealth, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Nine Projects for the Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau, MAMbo, GAM, Bologna, IT
Exhibition supported by Ikon's 50th Anniversary Investment Fund and a donation from John Lewis to Ikon.
This exhibition — the largest and most comprehensive ever dedicated to the artist — is an in - depth chronological exploration of Solakov's artistic practice from 1981 to 2011, and has grown out of a partnership between Fondazione Galleria Civica Trento and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, S.M.A.K., Ghent, and Museu Serralves, Porto.
Ink on paper; Inscribed «For Dwight, Love From David H., L.A. 1979» in ink on recto; Provenance: Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; Posner Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Ikon Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Douglas Udell Gallery; Gallery tags on verso Image: 17 x 14 inches; Framed: 24.5 x 21.5 inches; Estimate: $ 30,000 / $ 40,000
Jean Painleve, L'Hippocampe / The Seahorse (1931) Video projection from 35 mm film Duration 30 mins Ikon Gallery.
1999 From where — To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden 1999 Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1999 Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland 1999 Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England 1999 Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London, England 1999 In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham 1999 Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; 1999 Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 1999 Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY,From where — To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden 1999 Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1999 Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland 1999 Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England 1999 Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London, England 1999 In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham 1999 Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; 1999 Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 1999 Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY,from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden 1999 Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1999 Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland 1999 Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England 1999 Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London, England 1999 In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham 1999 Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; 1999 Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 1999 Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Key works from her recent survey shows at Ikon Gallery Birmingham and Kunsthalle Nürnberg investigate the slippage between object, image and text and highlights the central role of Banner's publishing imprint, The Vanity Press, in her work since 1997.
Kermode, Deborah, From Arkhipov to Zittel: Selected Ikon Off - Site Projects 2000 — 2001, published by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 2002
1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1997 Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa 1997 Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1997 What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, England
As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s, currently on display at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, is a departure from the solo and two - person exhibitions that have become synonymous with Ikon's programme.
Selected solo exhibitions include Aperture, NOW Gallery, London, 2015; Endless Facade, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2011; Perfect Vacuum, Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2005; Beyond, Monitor Gallery, Rome, 2005; Symmetriad, Galerie Ben Kauffman, Munich, 2004; and News from Nowhere, the Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, 2002.
As a charity, Ikon relies on donations from individuals and businesses.
Ikon Gallery is a registered charity and as such, needs to raise funds each year from a range of sources including trusts and foundations, corporate sponsorship, individual supporters and our trading activities, alongside its core funding as one of the Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations.
It is the second chapter in the story of Ikon, following on from our 2004 exhibition, The best things in life happen accidentally, featuring work by founder artists, their colleagues, friends and acquaintances.
Details from the art gallery on 0121 303 1966, the Ikon...
Brum Art Gallery Puts on Sex Video by Turner Prize Winner Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); October 12, 2008; Varma, Anuji; 700 + words... 18s are banned from seeing Sex Film by former Turner Prize winner Martin Creed at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham... knownpiece is the work he exhibited for the 2001 Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery.
Within this lively context, Ikon developed progressively from being an artist - run space featuring work by founder artists, their colleagues and friends, to having a much greater level of engagement nationally and with the wider world.
Ikon's first director Simon Chapman (1972 — 78) devised a programme that was eclectic, notable for its emphasis on painting — ranging from large post-painterly abstraction to a «New British Realism» — and a frequent inclusion of photography.
Click here to see a short film about Ikon's development from a small artist - led space in the Bullring in the 1960s to its current position as an internationally renowned art gallery at the heart of Birmingham's cultural scene.
Lives and works in London) Solo shows include: Endless façade, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver (2012) & Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2011); Let Me Show You Some Things, CCA, Glasgow (2008); Robert Orchardson & Sarah Tripp, Generator Projects, Dundee; Edge of the Superstructure, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin (both 2007); Perfect Vacuum, Wilkinson Gallery, London; Beyond, Monitor Gallery, Rome; Robert Orchardson, Economist Plaza, London (all 2005); Symmetriad, Galerie Ben Kauffman, Munich (2004); News from Nowhere, The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling (2002).
It is going to destroy itself» Ikon, apart from the odd inevitable loser, international corporate capital will make an absolute bundle out of this monumental Keynesian stupidity.
He began taking pictures in 1980 when he received his first camera (a well used Zeiss Ikon Continamatic) from a favourite uncle.
He began taking pictures in 1980 when he received his first camera (a well used Zeiss Ikon Continamatic) from a favourite uncle.