Ikon Gallery travel guide

The Ikon Gallery is a modern art gallery, housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic, former Birmingham board school Oozells Street Board School (John Henry Chamberlain 1877), in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. The current director is Jonathan Watkins.
It was set-up to encourage the public to engage in contemporary art. As a result of this the gallery runs an off-site 'Education and Interpretation' scheme that educates audiences, promotes artists and their art. The gallery is open every day of the week except Mondays, though it opens on bank holiday Mondays.
Featured artworks include all forms of media including sound, sculpture and photography as well as paintings. Exhibitions rotate throughout the year so that as many pieces can be displayed as possible. Ikon is a registered charity which is partly funded by Birmingham City Council and Arts Council of England.
"The Ikon" (as it is colloquially known) began in a small kiosk in Birmingham's Bull Ring. Formerly located in John Bright Street, it moved to the current site in 1997 with the cost of the conversion partly funded by a grant from the National Lottery. The refurbishment work was designed by Levitt Bernstein, who reinstated the tower which had been demolished during the 1960s. In July 2006 it opened a second site in Digbeth - Ikon Eastside.
Ikon's reputation for innovation, internationalism and excellence has gradually developed over the past 40 years. It has an artistic programme consisting of three interdependent strands.
The gallery features temporary exhibitions over two floors totalling 450 square metres. A variety of media are represented, including sound, film, mixed media, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. (...) more....

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