The Ikon Gallery's Start the Press! Exhibition

The centrepiece of Start the Press! is an antique, flatbed printing press from Wolverhampton School of Art, taking its position in the gallery as a form of occupation in the tradition of the student art-school sit-ins of the 1960s, and in response to the current challenging economic landscape. A cohort of eight West Midlands printmakers will operate the press. 

With the support of Culture Forward, artists Taiba Akhtar (22^nd-24^thFebruary) and Haseebah Ali (29^th February – 3^rd March) are creating print responses to the Birmingham Qur’an and Mingana Collection at University of Birmingham.