Traces of doings with Ikon and BIAD

The Northfield work I was involved with for Ikon Gallery is being showcased over the next few days. Their publicity seems to feature a photo of me pulling a jib rather extensively, but I hope that’s not reflected in the content of the exhibition.

11am–6pm until the 3rd of February
Events Room, Ikon Gallery

Hopefully some of the Mum Signs may leach out into the surrounding area, too…

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I’ve also done a few more days with the second year students at BIAD, helping them refine their ideas and builds for the Mis-fitting project.

There will be scaly coats, stilt-walking sculptures, spongy red men, shopping bag costumes, generous plant pots and more, all making their appearances around Birmingham city centre over the next week or two. If you spot one of the happenings, feel free to join in and get involved!

Recent work for Ikon in and around Northfield

Since the Summer I’ve been working on a few different projects for Ikon Gallery with their Learning Co-ordinator Emma Bowen.

Most of these projects have been linked to Ikon’s activities in the constituency/district of Northfield (the wards of Weoley, Northfield, Longbridge and Kings Norton), and last week these collectively got their own space on the internet in the form of the Ikon Northfield website.

The new Ikon Northfield website

I’ve written several blog posts for the website detailing various exploits involving GPS, data, walking, secret signs and some light, socially-engaged graffiti.

All my posts are gathered under this tag: http://ikonnorthfield.org/author/nikki/, so if you’d like to catch up on what I’ve been up to, click on through to the other side…

There’ll be some exhibitions at Ikon in the new year celebrating the work the different groups we’ve been working with have done – keep an eye on the website for further details as they become available.

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Didn’t catch the title, but it was quite an effect if you come in off the tower stairs not expecting it.

(And make sure you do spend some time in the tower room.)