16 Jun 2011 - 01 Apr 2012 Tue - Sun 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Closed New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Christmas Day Bank Holiday, Boxing Day, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, 24 Dec 2011 - 01 Jan 2012

Gillian Wearing: A Real Birmingham Family

Ikon Gallery

Birmingham, B1 2HS

Art Galleries

A major new project by Birmingham-born artist Gillian Wearing. Her quest is to find, and immortalise in bronze, the ‘real’ Birmingham family. Families can nominate themselves to represent how the 21st-century family might be symbolised in the city. After short-listing, a panel of judges including prominent Birmingham figures select a single family. In 2013 a bronze life-size sculpture of the selected family is to be placed in Centenary Square, near the new library of Birmingham, becoming a lasting celebration of local residents.

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