Ikon Youth Project (IYP), Slow Boat session, September 2011

Slow Boat
Summer 2012

Chisenhale Gallery is collaborating with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, on the second year of Ikon’s Slow Boat project, bringing together the Ikon Youth Programme (15-19 years old) and Chisenhale Gallery’s Propeller group (15-20 years old) as they share a creative canal boat journey from Birmingham to London and back again during Summer 2012. Travelling at an average speed of four miles an hour, the journey from Birmingham to London takes two weeks.

Slow Boat will arrive in London during the second week of the Olympic Games when it will be moored for one week outside Chisenhale Gallery. The young people will work with artists Sarah Browne and Benedict Drew to produce a dynamic programme of activities and artworks.

Please check back in the Spring for further details.