ENERGY CONSOLE

The Other MA Graduation Show

2022 - 2024

‘Energy Console is a graduation show presented by Southend-based alternative art school TOMA’s current 2022-24 cohort. 

The work in this exhibition explores a broad range of themes such as: emerging technologies and performativity, performance and textiles, orchards, permaculture, access intimacy, disability, anti-gallery, consumption and value, science fiction, motherhood, the body and imaginative play, expanded portraiture, photography, appropriation, memory and collaboration; and the resonance of past experiences in people, places, and things.’

- Press Release, Neeral Bhatt

Rapid Growth

FAST GAS bottles in gradual stages of rusted decay, harvested from edge-lands adorned with dried and pressed flowers bought in abstinence from LIDL, shown in various stages of growth. Strapped to a slice of stolen shopping trolly with jubilee clips and cable-ties. Hung with IKEA Spare-Parts.

Wall hung Sculpture
82 x 54 x 10

DEEZ FREE WHITIES

Used white trainers, Flase teeth (Made & Collected), retired glasses. No Hoodies, Hats or Tracksuits. Ladies Free before midnight, Bubbling Fresh

Assemblage
30 x 30 x 12

Wrap It Up

Reclaimed table, coated in used McDee's bags, Mosonic paint, Ice cream Silhouette all wrapped in a discarded industrial tarp. Hung with IKEA Spare-Parts.

‘Painting’
110 x 80 x 5

THROWN

Sculptural Chair, After. Stiletto Studio Circa ‘89. Stolen Shopping Trolly; Hacked and weaved with rolled Euro Winners’ Metro front covers. Displayed on a borrowed plinth.

90 x 90 x 90

FLATS, Mandy House Mark III.

Selected Rave Sign Collection 2017 – 2024. 4mm virtically fluted correx, Dome Head Screws, Strip lighting, Cable Ties.

Pushing Up Daisies

Personally used vape collection (30 Hell Mary’s) filled with hand-pulled scrubland flowers, dried & pressed. Dotted with dried insect carcasses, collected from the studio. Backed on board reclaimed from a loading trolly repossessed by Fredrix Vermin 2010, Helen Ashton 2012 and Mark Stonehouse 2020. Framed in reclaimed aluminium skeleton of a redundant Pho Hanoi (Deptford) restaurant sign. Hung with IKEA Spare Parts.

92 x 60 x 20

SLAB

Marble remnants expelled from a Daddy-Rage Rampage (circa.‘92), recovered from The House of Parakeet, engraved and adjusted 2024. Flowers purchased in abstinence and hand-pulled Daisie mix, dried and pressed. Safety glass collected form Broken & Entered cars on the roadside.

54 x 90 x 2

Spare Parts

Personal Hanging system made using IKEA Spare Parts. Hung at 192cm

Stolen Valor

7:30min





A screen recording of Fredrix Vermin doomscrolling on InstaSpam, favouring unconvertional wisdoms.


In order of Appearance; David Bowie, Jennifer Coolidge, Willem Defoe, Slavoj Žižek, Goldie, Cyndi Lauper, John Cleese, L.S.Lowry, Harrison Lee, Andre 3000, Drape, Kathryn Hunter, Unknown, Lil Miss Emily Mae, Leigh Bowery, David Lynch, Harry Dean Stanton, Jane Fonda, James Baldwin, Stephen Fry, George Carlin, Billy Connolly, Rachel Whitereed, James Brown, Microwave Man, Dolly Parton, Björk, Grace Jones, Natasha Lyonne, Leanne Morgan, Eddie Murphy. The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of free workshops and public events.



TOMA (The Other MA) is an 18-month artist-run education model and nomadic exhibition space based in Southend-on-Sea which supports artists who have faced barriers accessing art education and the ‘art world’. BEECROFT ART GALLERY27 April 2024 – 14 July 2024
Wed – Sun 11am – 5pm

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