For 50 years, the present moment has always been the most exciting time to be at Birmingham’s pioneering Ikon Gallery in Brindleyplace.
From starting out as an octagonal, glass-walled kiosk in the old Bull Ring shopping centre half a century ago, it moved three years later to a decommissioned mortuary in Swallow Street and then in late 1978 to John Bright Street.
After 16 years in its current home, its finger-on-the-pulse “gallery without walls” attitude has cemented Ikon’s place as one of the country’s flagship, independent, not-for-profit art galleries.
