Events/Talk 14.08.2026 / 2.00pm–3.00pm
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Curator Tour with Will Kew
Join us for a free tour of Break the Mould with co-curator Will Kew, Ikon Education Producer.
Ikon Youth Programme 21.07.2026
Break the Mould Review with IYP
In April, members of Ikon Youth Programme reviewed and responded to Break the Mould.
The session included creative prompts by artist-writer Zoe Green and an exhibition tour led by Will Kew, exhibition co-curator and Education Producer.
The responses began as individual written texts before evolving into collaborative works. Together, they became shared thought-objects, carrying the voices of the group and imagining what the artworks might say to one another if they could speak back.
Responses were created by Cal, Lina, Theo, River, Adam, Seth and Shraddha.
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Exhibition 25.03.2026–06.09.2026
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Break the Mould
Ikon presents Break the Mould, the final exhibition in a trilogy exploring craft, art school pedagogies and contemporary art practice. This show focuses on ceramics, positioning clay as a site of experimentation.
Ikon Youth Programme 30.07.2026 / 5.30pm–6.30pm
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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.
Ikon Youth Programme/Off-site/Workshop 28.07.2026
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Slow Boat: Experiments with Place and Practice
MA Contemporary Arts Practice (CAP) students at De Montfort University transform Slow Boat into a temporary research residency. Join them on Slow Boat to explore how artistic work responds to a specific place through live experiments, workshops and collective discussions.
Slow Boat 01.06.2026
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Slow Notes 01
Wolverhampton: April 2026
Between March–September 2026, we will be sharing Slow Notes, a reflective series of posts following our journeys on Slow Boat.
This year we started our Slow Boat journey in Wolverhampton. We met up with More Art Inc at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum (programmed by Dinosaur Kilby and Simon Suphandagli) for their “Legacy Gathering”.
Ikon Youth Programme 26.06.2026
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Slow Notes 02
IYP continued our Slow Boat journey in Tipton. Ikon Youth Programme and Rowley Regis Youth Club got together for a Slow Boat Social, where we got to know each other over snacks, covered the windows with our words and drawings, shared stories and music and made new connections!