Betsy Bradley: Chasing Rainbows – Ikon Gallery – Alice Lenkiewicz
I was pleased to be invited to review Betsy Bradley’s first solo exhibition, Chasing Rainbows, at Birmingham’s IKON Gallery.
12 December 2021
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Roger Hiorns Featured In Major New Exhibition At Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery
Ikon gallery Birmingham is presenting a major exhibition of the Birmingham-born artist Roger Hiorns.
1 November 2016
Major Dan Flavin Exhibition Launches At Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery
Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is presenting a major exhibition of Dan Flavin’s (1933-1996) fluorescent light works. Flavin was one of the most important… Read More
13 April 2016
Roger Hiorns To Present Comprehensive Survey At Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery
The Ikon and Birmingham-born artist Roger Hiorns will present a comprehensive survey of his work 7 December 2016 until 5 March… Read More
29 February 2016
Dan Flavin Lightworks Explored In New Ikon Gallery Exhibition
A major exhibition of fluorescent light works by the late, American artist Dan Flavin (1933-1996), will be presented by Ikon in April…. Read More
14 January 2016
Dan Flavin: Major Exhibition Announced For Ikon Gallery
Ikon Gallery Birmingham has announced a major exhibition of fluorescent light works by Dan Flavin (1933-1996), one of the most… Read More
18 December 2015
Comprehensive Fiona Banner Exhibition For Ikon Gallery Birmingham
SCROLL DOWN AND KEEP SCROLLING is the most comprehensive exhibition of Fiona Banner’s work to date, re-presenting key early projects… Read More
5 August 2015
David Prentice Instrumental In Founding Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery Dies
David Prentice the artist who was instrumental in founding the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham has died age 77. He was also a renowned watercolour painter
14 May 2014
National Gallery And Nikon Announce Online Content Partnership – Edward Lucie-Smith
The next 12 months,’ so the press release tells one, ‘will see the National Gallery work with Nikon on a broad schedule of online content all aimed at letting people take inspiration from one of the greatest art collections in the world
12 November 2020
George Shaw National Gallery’s Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist Unveils Exhibition
For the past two-and-a-half years, George Shaw has been the National Gallery’s Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist. Armed with a sketchbook, the teenage Shaw made… Read More
29 March 2016
Volta New York Announces Gallery Line Up For 2016 Edition
VOLTA NY, the invitational art fair of solo artist projects is the American incarnation of the original Basel VOLTA show, which was founded… Read More
21 January 2016
Fiona Banner: New Exhibition To Open At Frith Street Gallery
Fiona Banner’s font is an amalgamation of typefaces she has worked with previously, through full stop sculptures and typeset and… Read More
18 August 2015
Frida Kahlo’s Wardrobe And Belongings Documented At Michael Hoppen Gallery
Michael Hoppen Gallery presents Frida by Ishiuchi Miyako (2013), a photographic record of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe and belongings…. Read More
12 May 2015
Ikon Presents Exhibition Imran Qureshi Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
Ikon In Birmingham is presenting a solo exhibition by the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi, Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year”… Read More
14 November 2014
Ikon Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Best Of Paintings, Sculpture And Installation
Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery is marking its 50th anniversary with a best of exhibition survey of Ikon’s programme from the 1980s,… Read More
27 June 2014
NEIL LIBBERT New Solo Display At National Portrait Gallery
A new solo display of photographs by the photojournalist Neil Libbert will open at the National Portrait Gallery on 17… Read More
17 August 2012
Birmingham Launches Urban Art Gallery On Billboards
100 billboards across Birmingham have swapped ads for art in April for a unique new art project. 48 Sheet –… Read More
3 April 2012
Birmingham Launches First Urban Art Gallery
The UK’s Midlands offers a unique new art project Up to 100 billboards across Birmingham will swap ads for art… Read More
29 February 2012
The Art Diary October 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I begin the October Art Diary with several monographs, which are also linked to launch exhibitions.
2 October 2024
The Art Diary May 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
May’s diary includes exhibitions exploring new towns, migration, literature, reflections, and martyrs at galleries
8 May 2024
Arts Cuts: Birmingham City Council Faces Funding Withdrawal Backlash
Birmingham City Council is under fire for its decision to sell off £1.25 billion in assets to repay a government bailout loan, which has led to proposed cuts in funding for arts organisations.
21 February 2024
The Art Diary February 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the February 2024 Art Diary, the Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the Pre-Raphaelites, the works of Alison Lapper, Monia Sjöö and various group exhibitions, including shows at Cross Lane Projects, Drawing Room and The William Morris Gallery.
1 February 2024
The Art Diary December 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
December’s art diary begins with books that would make interesting gifts this Christmas before focusing on our usual eclectic mix of exhibition
4 December 2023
Hew Locke And The Christian Roots Of Carnival – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
The word carnival derives from Latin expressions meaning either to remove meat or say farewell to meat. These indicate the Christian roots of carnival which are to be found in the period leading up the fasts of Lent.
2 June 2022
Isaac Julien Cornelia Parker and Quentin Blake On Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours List
The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts, including a knighthood for the filmmaker Isaac Julien, The installation artist Cornelia Parker OBE and the Illustrator Sir Quentin Blake joining the elite Companions of Honour.
1 June 2022
Cornelia Parker To Mount Major Survey Of Her Work At Tate Britain
This May, Tate Britain will present the first significant survey of work by Cornelia Parker in London. Parker is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists.
14 April 2022
Audrey Flack Carlo Crivelli And Robert Indiana – March Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Audrey Flack found her signature style during the 1960s. Originally an Abstract Expressionist, she moved through New Realism to Photorealism.
13 March 2022
Carmen Herrera Cuban American Artist Dies Age 106
Carmen Herrera (1915 – 2022) The Cuban-born, American artist has died at the age of 106, only months before her… Read More
14 February 2022
Netflix Takes On Gardner Museum Heist – Why Saudi Arabia Refused To Loan Salvator Mundi – theVOV A New Virtual Arts Ecosystem
Netflix Takes On Gardner Museum Heist – Why Saudi Arabia Refused To Loan Salvator Mundi – theVOV A New Virtual Arts Ecosystem
15 April 2021
Martin Creed: Three Toasts and Some Broccoli Hauser & Wirth Online
Martin Creed has become known for hugely varied work, which is by turns uncompromising, entertaining, shocking and beautiful. A new online presentation at Hauser & Wirth opening on 8 August assembles selected paintings, drawings, sculptures, tapestry, video and music.
30 July 2020
UK Museums Now Protected From Court-Ordered Seizure For Loaned Artworks
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has vowed to protect objects on loan from abroad in temporary exhibitions in UK museums from seizure by the UK courts.
17 June 2019
Gillian Wearing Exhibition Celebrating Her Parliament Square Millicent Fawcett Statue Announced
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere, an exhibition documenting the creation of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s recently- unveiled statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, situated in Parliament Square, London.
28 October 2018