Easter Art Explorer

Join us for a fun creative trail through Ikon’s exhibitions.

This interactive experience encourages families and younger visitors to explore art and ideas together. Use your detective skills to discover new artworks and investigate details throughout the exhibition, while enjoying creative activities.

The sessions take place through the day and showcase how Ikon’s free resources, including Art Explorer guides and Bloomberg audio content, plus our friendly team, can help expand the gallery experience for visitors. No need to book, just drop in.

This event is supported by the Grantham Yorke Trust.

Mahtab Hussain’s exhibition is supported by the John Feeney Charitable Trust and Freelands Foundation. Htein Lin’s exhibition is supported by the British Council through the Connections Through Culture grants programme and ai. gallery.

FREE

Event Date

Tuesday 22 April 2025
11.00am–3.00pm

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No need to book, just drop in

This event is open to all families and aimed at all ages. Children must be accompanied at all times.

Takes place throughout the gallery

Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here.

For additional access enquiries please contact education@ikon-gallery.org

VENUE

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS

Image Credits

1. Family Saturday. Image courtesy of Ikon 2. Art Explorer Guide, Spring 2025. Photo by Tod Jones. Image courtesy Ikon. 3. Htein Lin, When I was a Lousy Millionaire (2022). Video, colour, sound, 24:56 minutes © Courtesy the artist. 4. Mahtab Hussain, Faizal Islam Masjid, Birmingham (2024). From the series What Did You Want To See? (2024). Digital C - Type print. Courtesy Mahtab Hussain.

Exhibition 20.03.2025–01.06.2025

Htein Lin

Escape

Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Htein Lin from Myanmar. Evoking his lifelong commitment to documenting human experience in difficult times, it shows a comprehensive selection of the artist’s paintings made while he was a political prisoner from 1998 to 2004 on prison uniforms and found textile, alongside drawing, sculpture, video and new work.

Exhibition 20.03.2025–01.06.2025

Mahtab Hussain

What Did You Want To See?

British artist Mahtab Hussain explores the fine line between photographic documentation and surveillance culture, addressing the intelligence sites established by the media and the state to monitor the Muslim community in Britain.

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