*Tend To It
*Tend To It
Tend To It ~ group show from TOMA 2019-21 artists @ TOMA Project Space, Unit 13, Royals Shopping Centre, Southend, SS1 1DG
Opening: Saturday 2 October 2021 12-6pm Then with usual opening times: Saturday 12-6pm + Sunday 12-5pm
FREE performance in the gallery by Milky Genes: 4:30pm and 5:30pm on Saturday 2 October.
Tend To It’s Workshops & Events Programme: 11 December I 14 & 15 January 22
*View the ONLINE EXHIBITION here*
The 2019-2021 TOMA (The Other MA) cohort present their end of year show: Tend to it. An instruction that doubles as a confession.
The pandemic gives the finger to ordinary life, forces a mutation in domestic space, rips at the cracks in the system, gnaws at the flimsy membrane between virtual and real life. Daft, meticulous, ancient, tender, critical and mysterious: the works in this exhibition show the approaches our 12 artists took to find meaning, safety and a sense of humour in a time of crisis.
How has it affected our art making? Why do we make art? And what happens when we are faced with death? This show explores how even in a crisis we must tend to our needs to create. Raid the larder, stroke the euphoric parceltape, pass through the silky curtain, step onto the stage, go back in time, ooze into a queer new landscape, journey through screens, pause in isolation, ponder reused, reborn found objects. This exhibition shows how we tend to it.
2019-2021 TOMA cohort artists:
Bella Street Fenn, Jessica Scott, Jon Rust, Lu Williams, Maria Bird, Mark Hicken, Milky Genes, Ruth Hazel aka Fanny Von Beaverhausen, Peter Haugh, Philippa Stewart, Paige Ockendon, Victoria Sills.
