EVENT30.07.2026 / 5.30pm6.30pm
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Building Practice with Hannah Lim

Meet artist Hannah Lim for a talk about studio and material costs, working non-art jobs, navigating curatorial relationships and how connections actually happen.

Grounded in lived experience, this is a space for sharing strategies, realities and ways of making it work on your own terms.

Hannah Lim b.1998 is a London based artist working between sculpture, installation and drawing. She received her BA in sculpture from the University of Edinburgh and her MFA from The University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art.

She has recently had solo shows with Pangolin London, Wilder Gallery, Huxley-Parlour, 9 French Place, Edinburgh Printmakers and Commonage Projects whilst also exhibiting in group shows with The Royal Scottish Academy, Young V&A, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Christies

About Ikon Youth Programme (IYP)

Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) is a group of emerging artists, designers, writers, photographers and policy makers (16–21yrs).

With the support of Freelands Foundation, over six years (2021-27), Ikon Youth Programme  (IYP) navigates the waterways on board by producing a programme of workshops, exhibitions and live events on Slow Boat, a heritage canal boat that tours the West Midlands. We collaborate with national and regional artists by sharing resources and regularly exchanging ideas and knowledge.

Building Practice is part of Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) public programme. This has been programmed by IYP members, shaped by their interests, conversations, and ways of working.

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