Exhibition

Vanley Burke: A Gift to Birmingham

16 Dec 2022 – 31 Mar 2023

Regular hours

Friday
09:00 – 17:00
Saturday
09:00 – 17:00
Monday
09:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
09:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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Ikon tours A Gift to Birmingham by Vanley Burke to Handsworth Library. The exhibition features seventeen portraits of members of Migrant Voice, a migrant-led national organisation with a hub in Birmingham.

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Each image tells a story of migration, either recent or long past, with subjects accompanied or alone. Displayed together, the photographs present a portrait of Birmingham as a superdiverse city, with residents from many parts of the world.

The exhibition is accompanied by schools’ packs (Key Stages, 1, 2 and 3) for teachers and students to openly discuss sensitive issues and directly address conflict. Designed by artist educator Haseebah Ali, they include critical questions – on subjects of race, language, culture and religion – and creative exercises, allowing learners to express their identities. Free copies of the schools’ packs are available at the library and to download from Ikon’s website.

A Gift to Birmingham was previously shown at Ikon Gallery (23 March – 03 April 2022), Brushstrokes (20 – 24 June 2022) and Saathi House (15 – 24 July 2022). It was commissioned as part of the ‘Non-formal Intercommunal Education in Birmingham (NICE-B)’ project, led by Dr Reza Gholami, Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education, University of Birmingham.

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