30 Nov 2011 - 05 Feb 2012 Tue - Sun 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM; 02 Jan 2012, New Year's Day Bank Holiday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Christmas Day Bank Holiday, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, 24 Dec 2011 - 01 Jan 2012
John Myers
Ikon Gallery
Birmingham, B1 2HS
Art Galleries
An exhibition of work by John Myers with photographs from series made throughout the early 1970s, including ‘Middle England’ (1970-74), a selection of portraits of individuals and families close to Myers, living in and around Stourbridge. Like all of the artist’s work the approach is documentary in style, but one in which the images speak to us of value, of the aspirations of the sitter and the spaces they occupy, as well as the artist himself. These everyday pictures of people in their front rooms, their backyards, embody much of the preoccupations, the hopes and desires, and class politics of their time.
