Event 20.05.2025–02.09.2025
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BCU Tuesdays
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HIRE IKON FOR YOUR EVENT
Housed in a beautiful Victorian building, Ikon Gallery has versatile spaces, accommodating 10 to 500 guests.
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ART AT HMP GRENDON
With a focus on the development of the prisoners’ artistic practice, Ikon has opened the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Studio at HMP Grendon – a dedicated space for workshops, in printing and painting, and a changing programme of exhibitions, art historical and contemporary.
Funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.
IKON YOUTH PROGRAMME
Over three years (2021-24) Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) navigates the waterways on board Slow Boat, a converted narrow boat. IYP are collaborating with creative thinkers and makers to reimagine Slow Boat as a local art school.
Funded by Freelands Foundation.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Ikon is dedicated to minimising its impact on the environment and we strive to make our operations and exhibitions as sustainable as possible.
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Events
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Talk 25.05.2025–07.09.2025
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Sunday Spotlight Tour
Ikon Shop 27.05.2025–08.07.2025
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Ikon Textile Fair Applications
Event 03.07.2025–15.08.2025
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Weaving Studio
Current Exhibitions
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Exhibition 27.03.2025–16.06.2025
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Tomoko Yoneda
At the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
Curated by Melanie Pocock, Ikon Artistic Director (Exhibitions), this show presents a selection of photography by London-based Japanese artist Tomoko Yoneda, produced over the past thirty years. It is shown at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Exhibition 02.06.2025–24.06.2025
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GALLERIES CLOSED FOR INSTALLATION
Ikon’s Galleries are closed while we install our new exhibition. Ikon Shop and Yorks Café are open as usual.
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Exhibition 25.06.2025–07.09.2025
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Thread the Loom
Ikon presents a group exhibition celebrating the art of weaving.
An AVL Studio Dobby loom, on loan from Birmingham City University (BCU), will be activated through a series of micro-residencies with five West Midlands weavers Chantelle Folarin, Mahawa Keita, Clare Langford, Andrée Walker and Theo Wright, and international artist Seulgi Lee. Textiles produced on the loom will be exhibited alongside work by contemporary artists Raisa Kabir, Alis Oldfield, Bharti Parmar, Dinah Prentice and Su Richardson.
Exhibition 25.06.2025–07.09.2025
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Seulgi Lee
SPAN
Ikon presents the first UK solo exhibition by artist Seulgi Lee.
Born in Seoul and living in Paris since 1992, Seulgi Lee’s artwork is shaped by the use of colour, gesture, simple yet elegant forms and performance.
Exhibition 10.07.2025–23.07.2025
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Workshop of the World
Schools Showcase: Creative Connections
Ikon presents Workshop of the World, an exhibition of children’s artwork made during a year-long partnership between the Creative Connections consortium of schools, Ikon’s Education team and a group of local artist educators.
Exhibition 01.10.2025–22.02.2026
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Donald Locke
Resistant Forms
The first major survey of Guyanese-British artist Donald Locke (1930-2010).
Latest News
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News 29.05.2025
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Slow Boat concludes its journey to Stoke-on-Trent
As Ikon’s Slow Boat concluded its journey to Stoke-on-Trent, we caught up with Nicola Shipley, Director, GRAIN Projects and Rosie Abbey, Ikon Youth Programme Coordinator.
Artist Residency 21.05.2025
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Robert Zhao Renhui, Artist Residency
The residency at Wigwell Lodge has offered me a rare kind of quiet – one that sharpens my attention to both visible and invisible movements in the landscape. It’s been a time of listening, walking and noticing subtle shifts in weather, wildlife and time.
Slow Boat 14.05.2025
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Slow Boat continues its journey
By Nicola Shipley, Director, GRAIN Projects
Over the last few weeks, we have continued journeying north on the canal, through Stoke-on-Trent, delivering artist-led workshops with groups from across Stoke-on-Trent.
Exhibitions 08.05.2025
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Ikon Announces Summer Exhibitions
Ikon announces new summer exhibitions.
Slow Boat 28.04.2025
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Ikon Slow Boat journeys along the Trent & Mersey Canal, Stoke-on-Trent
By Nicola Shipley, Director, GRAIN Projects
This Spring, Ikon’s Slow Boat is programmed and produced in collaboration with GRAIN Projects, an arts organisation that specialises in contemporary photography and the delivery of socially engaged photography projects, exhibitions and publications regionally and nationally.