Upcoming Exhibitions

We have the current TOMA 2022/24 cohort end of year show Energy Console coming up, info below. Please sign up to our TOMA Mailer (at the bottom of this page) and follow us on social media to find out when our next exhibition will be announced.

ENERGY CONSOLE

Group show from TOMA 2022/24 artists 

Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX

27 April - 14 July 2024 from 2 - 5pm Wednesday to Sunday

Opening event: Saturday 27 April from 2-5pm

After party: 6pm - midnight at Twenty One Southend, Western Esplanade, SS1 2EH

TOMA 2022/24 artists exhibiting…

Neeral Bhatt | Graham Burnett | Erene Dellaporta

James Forward | Gülşen Güler

Joanna Hartle | Edi McGurk | Eva Sbaraini | Kate Sullivan 

Fredrix Vermin | Fern Worsley

Energy Console is the end of year show of alternative art school The Other MA’s current 2022/24 cohort. It will take place at the Beecroft Art Gallery. 

Visitors are invited to experience work created during the past 18 months of the TOMA course. The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of free workshops and public events, details of which can be found on the TOMA instagram. 

Exhibiting TOMA artists are showing work that 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 and digital: analogue, photography, appropriation, memory and collaboration; and the resonance of past experiences in people, places, and things. Artist-led tours of the show are scheduled throughout the exhibition period. 

The exhibition entitled Energy Console is inspired by a report on ‘The TOMA way’ written by researcher Jack Ky Tan, titled ‘TOMA Dreamings’ and published in 2023. The report can be read in full here. 

Please feel free to join us for the Energy Console opening event from 2pm to 5pm on the 27th of April at the Beecroft Gallery, and then for an opening party with performances, entertainment, and food and drink available to buy, from 6pm to midnight at Twenty One Southend, SS1 2EH.  

Open crits

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As an extension of the TOMA education programme we host outward facing open crits as a way to connect & collaborate with more makers both locally & nationally. These spaces are a place for creatives to meet, support & learn from one another & we welcome anyone who has an interest in contemporary art & culture to join.

TOMA understands putting your work out there can be nerve wracking so these crits are a supportive space to develop & learn about the work you are making as well as support with practical advice for displaying, showing, reading & making work. Talking about it helps to give critical distance & resolve problems. Everyone is welcome to bring something to discuss or share - this can be an idea / the start of something / the middle of a project / the end of a piece / a springboard for an idea - we are all here to learn from each other, exchange knowledge & build communities.

Everyone who comes shows work, everyone is encouraged to feedback, there are no hierarchies here, & everyone gets 20 minutes to do with as they wish - present their practice / ask a question / show work and not talk / perform / read / screen some video work / play a sound work / encourage a discussion around a topic / ask for feedback.

All work is welcome for supportive critical feedback hosted and facilitated by TOMA artists - drawing / painting / text / print / photography / sculpture / sound / video / anything really - we are interested in the work you make, not your CV.