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Ikon Gallery, the Glossary

The Ikon Gallery is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham.^[1]

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A Real Birmingham Family

A Real Birmingham Family is a public artwork and sculpture by Gillian Wearing, cast in bronze, and erected in Centenary Square, outside the Library of Birmingham, England, on 30 October 2014.

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Alia Syed

Alia Syed (born 1964) is an experimental filmmaker and artist of Welsh-Indian descent.

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Angus Skene

Angus Skene (died 2002) was a Scottish accountant, art collector and art gallery-owner, notable as the founder of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.

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Art gallery

An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.

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Arts Council England

Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.

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Associated Architects' Birmingham Offices are located in The Mailbox, which was designed by the practice RIBA Award Winner 2009, David Wilson Library Associated Architects is a leading architectural firm with offices in Birmingham and Leeds, England.

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Bank holiday

A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and a colloquial term for a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland.

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Barrie Cook

Barrie Cook (1929 – 13 July 2020) was a British abstract artist who lived and worked on The Lizard in Cornwall, England.

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Barry Burman

Barry Burman (1943–2001) was an English figurative artist known for his dark and often disturbing subject matter.

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Berenice Abbott

Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Birmingham Arts Lab

The Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab was an experimental arts centre and artist collective based in Birmingham, England from 1968 to 1982 – an "arts and performance space dedicated to radical research into art and creativity".

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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is the local authority for the city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham New Street railway station

Birmingham New Street, also known as New Street station, is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, England, and a central hub of the British railway system.

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Birmingham Post

The Birmingham Post is a weekly printed newspaper based in Birmingham, England, with distribution throughout the West Midlands. First published under the name the Birmingham Daily Post in 1857, it has had a succession of distinguished editors and has played an influential role in the life and politics of the city.

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Birmingham School of Art

The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England.

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Brindleyplace

Brindleyplace is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the Westside district of Birmingham, England.

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Bronze sculpture

Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze".

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Bull Ring, Birmingham

The Bull Ring is a major shopping area in central Birmingham England, and has been an important feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages, when its market was first held.

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), commonly referred to simply as the Gulbenkian Foundation, is a Portuguese institution dedicated to the promotion of the arts, philanthropy, science, and education.

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Centenary Square

Centenary Square is a public square on the north side of Broad Street in Birmingham, England, named in 1989 to commemorate the centenary of Birmingham achieving city status.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Chris Orr (artist)

Christopher Orr MBE RA (born 8 April 1943) is an English artist and printmaker who has exhibited worldwide and published over 400 limited edition prints in lithography, etching and silkscreen.

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Contemporary art

Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, and it generally refers to art produced from the 1970s onwards.

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Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.

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David Hepher

David Hepher (born Surrey, England, 1935) is a British artist, best known for his paintings of buildings, landscapes, especially tower blocks, including the Aylesbury Estate.

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David Prentice

David Prentice (4 July 1936 – 7 May 2014) was an English artist and former art teacher.

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David Shepherd (artist)

Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists.

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Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971 by Patricia Bosworth, The New York Times, May 13, 1984. Accessed May 10, 2017) was an American photographer.

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Digbeth

Digbeth is an area of central Birmingham, England.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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General contractor

A contractor (North American English) or builder (British English), is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of a building project.

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Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Haroon Mirza

Haroon Mirza (born 1977) is a British contemporary visual artist, of Pakistani descent.

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Ian Iqbal Rashid

Ian Iqbal Rashid (born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a poet, screenwriter and filmmaker known in particular for his volumes of poetry, for the TV series Sort Of and This Life and the feature films Touch of Pink and How She Move.

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Icon

An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches.

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Installation art

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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Ivor Abrahams

Ivor Abrahams (10 January 1935 – 6 January 2015) was a British sculptor, ceramicist and print maker best known for his polychrome sculptures and his stylised prints of garden scenes.

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Jeremy Rees

Jeremy Rees (8 May 1937 – 12 December 2003) was a British arts administrator.

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Jesse Bruton

Jesse Bruton (born 1933) is a British artist, and a founder of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.

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John Copnall

John Bainbridge Copnall (1928–2007) was an English artist best known for his abstract expressionist painting of richly coloured stylised realism, often on a grand scale.

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John Henry Chamberlain

John Henry Chamberlain (21 June 1831 – 22 October 1883), generally known professionally as J. H. Chamberlain, was a British nineteenth-century architect based in Birmingham.

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John Melville

John William Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealist painter.

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John Salt

John Salt (2 August 1937 – 13 December 2021) was an English artist, whose greatly detailed paintings from the late 1960s onwards made him one of the pioneers of the photorealist school.

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John Szarkowski

Thaddeus John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 – July 7, 2007) was an American photographer, curator, historian, and critic.

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John Walker (painter)

John Walker (born 1939) is an English painter and printmaker.

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Jonathan Watkins

Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and the former Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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Julian Opie

Julian Opie (born 1958) is a visual artist of the New British Sculpture movement.

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Levitt Bernstein

Levitt Bernstein is an architecture, landscape architecture and urban design practice established in 1968 by David Levitt and David Bernstein with studios in London and Manchester.

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Library of Birmingham

The Library of Birmingham is a public library in Birmingham, England.

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Limited company

In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.

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Arts media are the materials and tools used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art, for example, "pen and ink" where the pen is the tool and the ink is the material.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama (born May 4, 1974) is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City.

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Movie theater

A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom.

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Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scaled installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience.

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On Kawara

was a Japanese conceptual artist who lived in SoHo, New York City, from 1965.

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Oozells Street Board School

Oozells Street Board School was a Victorian board school in Oozells Street, off Broad Street in Birmingham, England. Ikon Gallery and Oozells Street Board School are grade II listed buildings in Birmingham.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Post office

A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery.

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Public art

Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process.

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R. B. Kitaj

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist who spent much of his life in England.

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Richard Billingham

Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher.

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Richard Smith (artist)

Richard Smith, CBE (27 October 1931 – 15 April 2016) was an English painter and printmaker.

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Robert Groves (artist)

Robert Groves (born 1935), sometimes known as Bob, was a British artist, and a co-founder of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, whose name he coined, inspired by his interest in icons He is an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikon_Gallery

Also known as Ikon Art Gallery, Ikon Eastside.

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See also

Art museums and galleries established in 1965

Contemporary art galleries in England

Former school buildings in the United Kingdom

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