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
Hospital Rooms are change makers working towards a mental healthcare system where every single service user feels safe and secure in both their physical and mental environments. They bring the highest-quality artwork and creative activity into mental health spaces, working with acclaimed artists to catalyse a fundamental shift in the way we consider and treat people with the most difficult of mental health diagnoses.
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.
