ABSTRACT
The Ikon Gallery operates a diverse programme of projects and exhibitions that vary in scale, duration, development time and location, involving artists from the UK and abroad. Occurring within a context of assertive urban regeneration, the off-site programme focuses largely on actual human experience. By challenging existing frameworks for artists, each project occupies a new site, working alongside a potentially new audience. The off-site programme brings together a unique series of projects that, at their heart, propose a more generous approach to artistic practice and are characterized by their location away from the gallery. They articulate a desire to make an art that has continuity with the physical environment, transcending the often formulaic restraints of a gallery situation, engaging with a public who may have little or no experience of art and with public spaces in which art is absolutely not the priority.
