Join Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) for a showcase of weaving work created in collaboration with artist Nilupa Yasmin, representing the outcome of their residency as part of Ikon’s exhibition Thread the Loom.
The group present individual artworks that use colour, pattern and material to consider their individuality and purpose.
Artwork by IYP is exhibited alongside weaving by a group of young people associated with Hospital Rooms. Nilupa Yasmin is working with the group to redesign a space at Parkview Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), an inpatient service for young people aged 11-18 in Moseley, Birmingham.
About Ikon Youth Programme
With the support of Freelands Foundation, over six years (2021-27) Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) navigates the waterways on board Slow Boat, a converted narrow boat. IYP are collaborating with creative thinkers and makers to reimagine Slow Boat as a local art school.
About Hospital Rooms
The charity Hospital Rooms was founded when a friend of artist Tim A Shaw and curator Niamh White was sectioned and admitted to a NHS mental health hospital. On visiting her, they were shocked to find the hospital environment was cold and clinical at a time when she was so vulnerable. Having both worked in the arts for 10 years, Shaw and White felt they had the skills and community to be able to transform these spaces with unique and site specific artworks.
Hospital Rooms envisions a new world where abundant and meaningful creative opportunities are readily accessible to people with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses, and where mental health hospital environments are inventive cultural spaces offering solace, comfort and dignity. Since 2016, Hospital Rooms has undertaken a number of acclaimed projects, completed in some of the most challenging mental health settings. A roster of artists is carefully selected for each Hospital Rooms’ project according to the needs of each community.
About the artist
Nilupa Yasmin is an artist and educator who explores the principles of art and craft and the expanded materiality within photography. She is interested in culture, self-identity, and anthropology, and investigates the ideals and traditions that are close to home; drawing upon her own identity through gender, religion and her British Bangladeshi culture and heritage. An element of Yasmin’s practice focuses on socially engaged photography, as she works collaboratively with various communities to produce, and curate works of art.
