Gallery announces dates for new exhibitions

Ikon Gallery has announced they will be opening their doors for a public launch of their new exhibitions Start the Press! and Exodus Crooks: Epiphany (Temporaire). 

Doors will open on Thursday 8 February, 5-7pm, open to all.

Both exhibitions run 9 February – 21 April 2024 and are presented as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.

The centrepiece of Start the Press! is an antique, flatbed printing press from Wolverhampton School of Art. A cohort of West Midlands printmakers will operate the press: establishing a functioning printmaking workshop, producing original prints and filling the gallery walls as artwork is made in real time. Regional printmakers: Taiba Akhtar, Haseebah Ali, Simon Harris, Fae Kilburn, Karen McLean, Laura Onions, Satinder Parhar and Heather Peak.

During the tour, Simon Harris will operate the printing press, demonstrating his process of production and making new work.

Ikon hosts Midlands-based artist Exodus Crooks’ exhibition Epiphany (Temporaire), commissioned by Ort Gallery and International Curators Forum (ICF), originally presented at Block 336 in Summer 2023. Epiphany (Temporaire) features sculpture, film, text and sculptural installation and is curated by UK-based Pan-African and Diasporic art curator and cultural producer, Orphée Kashala.