The cuts are really starting to hit home; the imminent closure of Ikon Eastside, forced on them by slashed funding, has recently been announced. But they’ll be going out with a bang, not a whimper, hosting the Rites of Spring festival, three nights of live music taking place 7th-9th April. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
Music: Rites of Spring: Ikon Music Festival
Arts: The Witching Hour in London
The Witching Hour, the successful and high-profile exhibition presented by Art of Ideas as part of their 2010 programme, has been invited to London.
Arts: Nightmare Before Christmas
VIVID will be hosting a Christmas party with a difference to mark the close of its 2010 programme of events.
Arts: Come Together
In the summer, artist Lucy McLauchlan painted three vast birds on the Central Library. And now that winter is here, far from flying south to less harsh climes, they’ve flapped over to Digbeth. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
Arts: Clare Rojas – We They, We They
Clare Rojas – We They, We They
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Birmingham. 0121 248 0708
ikon-gallery.co.uk
3 February – 21 March 2010
Free entry
The beautiful folk-inspired work of Clare Rojas comes to the Ikon as the gallery presents the first UK museum exhibition by the American artist.
Using a wide range of media, including painting, installation and print-making the exhibition, comprising much new work, marks a shift in Rojas’ practice. Paintings of empty domestic interiors suggest people have just departed, leaving clues of their identities, subtle revelations of gender and class.
The paintings will form centrepieces in a larger installation that is the entire exhibition, walls of the gallery covered by a patchwork of painted panels akin to a quilt. Some are focused on particular imagery; others are assemblages of colour and pattern. They combine to recall a myriad of references from West Coast modernism, to Latino folk or Native American craft, outsider art and street graffiti.
Ikon’s Tower Room will contain paintings on antique banjos, drawing together Rojas’ musical and literary interests. There will also be a concert in which the artist will perform songs taken from her albums released under the name of her alter-ego Peggy Honeywell. See ikon-gallery.co.uk for performance date.
The beautiful folk-inspired work of Clare Rojas comes to the Ikon in Birmingham as the gallery presents the first UK museum exhibition by the American artist. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
