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Ikon Gallery
13:49, 25 APR 2023
When chips are down, Opus steps up to plate
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In her search for a top quality, reasonably priced lunch, Mary Griffin finds potato perfection in this Brindleyplace gem.
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Celebration of an extraordinary decade in history of city gallery
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Ikon director Jonathan Watkins is revisiting the 1980s for the latest instalment of his gallery's year-long 50th anniversary celebrations. Graham Young reports
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Long-forgotten Super 8 film about Birmingham gets a new lease of life after being restored
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Music promoter Dave Travis shot the Super 8 footage in 1987 while the whole area was being transformed
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Ikon Gallery founder and artist David Prentice dies aged 77
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David Prentice co-founded the original venue along with wife Dinah back in 1964
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Revered artist makes UK debut at the Ikon
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The first UK show of Belgian artist Michel François has opened at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery.
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Jazz Diary with Peter Bacon
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Peter Bacon rounds-up the coming week of jazz events in the West Midlands.
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A fascinating glimpse into what life is like in Iraq today
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Jamal Penjweny’s first solo exhibition is being staged at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.
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Festival to explore life and death
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The University of Birmingham's second Arts & Science Festival is set to begin next week. And the parallel Flatpack Film Festival will showcase some long-lost films. Graham Young reports
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Birmingham needs to be loud and proud about what it has to offer
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As the new director of the Birmingham Museums Trust, Dr Ellen McAdam is hoping to expand locally and internationally. The nononsense Scotswoman tells Graham Young of her vision to bring the city's myriad attractions into the hearts and minds of all.
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Jazz Diary with Peter Bacon
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Peter Bacon rounds-up the coming week of jazz events in the West Midlands.
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How the city's Ikon Gallery has become an icon
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As he prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Ikon Gallery director Jonathan Watkins talks about Justin Bieber, Benefits Street, and plans for a new city museum.
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Ikon Gallery awarded £210,000 to take art to Black Country canals
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Slow Boat will travel the Black Country’s industrial canal routes from Smethwick to Stourbridge, Sedgley to West Bromwich and Birchills to Aldridge
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Iraqi artist Jamal Penjweny helps launch Ikon Gallery's 50th anniversary celebrations
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Images of Iraq in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s removal are powerful and arresting
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Ikon Gallery director Jonathan Watkins named as one of Foreign Policy’s top 100 Global Thinkers
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Jonathan Watkins was selected by Foreign Policy ‘for displaying Iraq’s soul and grace to the world’
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Birmingham's business community attended Ikon Connects
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Delegates from across Birmingham’s business community attended the Ikon Connects event at the Ikon Gallery in Brindleyplace.
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Ikon announces year of special exhibitions to celebrate 50th anniversary
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Late in 2014, Ikon will unveil 'Real Birmingham Family' sculpture by Gillian Wearing, positioned outside the Library of Birmingham
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Artist has humble nature of a true Brummie
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The Ikon Gallery is celebrating the works of one of Birmingham’s finest contemporary artists. Graham Young reports.
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History repeated itself for Birmingham-based novelist Catherine O’Flynn
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Birmingham-based novelist Catherine O’Flynn tells Graham Young how her family history has suddenly repeated itself.
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Explosion of al fresco arts in Birmingham
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Two major free outdoor arts festivals are to take over Birmingham city centre, discovers Roz Laws .
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Jazz Diary with Peter Bacon
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Peter Bacon rounds-up the coming week of jazz events in the West Midlands.
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Incredibly original and fresh voice in the world of art
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Japanese artist Shimabuku surely can’t be shy – not when he’s just taken over the entire Ikon Gallery. Graham Young reports.
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Don Kinch's garden of creation
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A new performance space is being created in a Handsworth back garden, discovers Roz Laws .
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Birmingham's Ikon Gallery celebrates 15 years in Brindleyplace
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One of Birmingham's most important galleries reaches major milestones this year and next.
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David Prentice gets a bird's-eye view of London skyline
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Malvern painter David Prentice tells Terry Grimley why he had to overcome vertigo to produce his latest exhibition
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