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Patchwork Arcade ~ TOMA show opening 1 April

OPENING EVENT
PATCHWORK ARCADE ~ TOMA 2022/24 INTERIM SHOW
1 April 2023
from 4pm @ Big Screen Southend
from 6pm @ Twenty One Southend

Patchwork Arcade
1 April 2023 - 1 May 2023

Opening event: 1 April 2023
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You are invited to the opening event! Meet @ 4pm Big Screen Southend, for a watch of the artist videos outside Focal Point Gallery and then walk down to the show from 6pm - 11.30pm at Twenty One Southend with performances and DJs.

Addresses: Big Screen Southend, Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1NS

Twenty One, Unit 21, Pier Approach, Western Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2E
 

This TOMA 2022/24 cohort interim event comprises a dual sharing of short films on Focal Point Gallery’s Big Screen Southend and a group exhibition at Twenty One gallery. Patchwork Arcade offers visitors the chance to experience new work created during the past 6 months of the programme from our current TOMA artists bringing together the artists’ diverse practices including video, painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. 

Artists...

Neeral Bhatt

Graham Burnett

Erene Dellaporta

James Forward

Gülşen Güler 

Jo Hartle

Eva Sbaraini

Kate Sullivan

Fredrix Vermin

Edi McGurk

Fern Worsley
 

 *The Other MA (TOMA) is an artist-run education model set up in 2016 and based in Southend on sea supporting artists who have faced barriers accessing art education and the ‘art world’.

**Big Screen Southend is a purpose-built display screen which opened in 2013 for the presentation of artist commissions, live transmissions, and short and feature films relative to the cultural context of Southend, South Essex and further afield. Twenty One is a live arts venue who work with local performers and artists, have an exhibition space and speciality pizza café & bar, located on Southend seafront.

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