Patchwork Arcade
The Other MA (TOMA)* Interim Show
Film Still and title credit from ‘I Scream Bath Tub’ by Fredrix Vermin & Julieta Tetelbaum. Shown on The Big Screen Southend
Eating Myself & Art Dispensary
Install shots Photography by Tessa Hallmann
Mandy House, Mark I
Installed outside Focal Point Gallery, temporal sculpture.
A queue for Portraits.
‘Mandy House’ outside Focal Point Gallery
‘AUCTION’
A performed Auction
Opening night and ‘Auction’ at Twenty One Southend
‘How to Draw, Not with Magic’
workshop at Twenty One Southend.
‘Patchwork Arcade offers visitors the chance to experience new work created during the past 6 months of the current 2022/24 TOMA programme.
It brings together the artists’ diverse practices including stereography, participatory sculpture,painting, drawing, photography, mixed media and UV and 3D printing.
The title takes influence from the eclectic mix of works, the mode of display and the amusement arcades nearby.
As well as the work featured Twenty One Southend, artists are also showing video work on the Big Screen Southend, located outside Focal Point Gallery (Elmer ave, Southend-on-Sea).
The Other MA (TOMA) is an 18-month artist-run education model based in Southend-on-Sea supporting artists who have faced barriers accessing art education and the ‘art world’. Our 11 participants meet several times a month at The Old Waterworks for group selected visiting artist talks, workshops, tutorials and crit sessions.
Big Screen Southend artist video viewing times: Richard Ducker and Ian Thompson’s film will run every day, twice a day at 11am and 1pm, and the duration of their piece is around 42 mins. The TOMA films will run at all other times until 5pm. More info HERE’
- Press Release, Lolly Adams
As part of the opening event I installed the ‘Mandy House as a temporal sculpture during the day outside Focal Point Gallery, in front of The Big Screen Southend. I was sat inside offering to draw peoples portraits, little did they know that I’d draw them as icecream. The offering of these works for free was to bootleg my own work that was in the Art Dispensary and devalue it further, crash the market.
As the evening drew in I wheeled the Mandy House from Focal Point Gallery down to the seafront to Twenty One.
In amongst the performances I held and auction with three lots based on question value systems. The first lot was bid for with favours with people outbidding eachother with things like natural dying workshops, a few pints and a weekly shop. The second lot was ‘up for grabs’. literally whoever was bold enough to bound on stage and grab the artwork was lucky enough to take it home. The third lot was for good old fashioned cold hard cash!
As part of the opening event, I installed the ‘Mandy House as a temporal sculpture during the day outside Focal Point Gallery, in front of The Big Screen Southend. I was sat inside offering to draw people's portraits, little did they know that I’d draw them as ice-creams. The offering of these works for free was a way to bootleg my own work that was like the drawings in the Art Dispensary and devalue them further, crash the market as it were.
As the evening drew in, I wheeled the Mandy House from Focal Point Gallery down to the seafront to Twenty One.
In amongst the performances, I held an auction with three ‘lots’ based on questioning current art valuing systems. The first lot was bid for with favours from people outbidding each other with things like natural dying workshops, a few pints and a weekly shop. The second lot was ‘up for grabs’. literally whoever was bold enough to bound on stage and grab the artwork was lucky enough to take it home. The third lot was for good old fashioned, cold hard cash!
To extend contact with the work and encourage engagement I offered a free drawing workshop in Modular drawing called ‘How to draw, Not with Magic’ following on from a previous series of workshops I’d held with Maciej Blazejewski in London and Edinburgh.
More details about the specific function of the art dispensary can be found here.
