BODY WORK

TOMA End-of-Year Show: BODY WORK

TOMA 24/25 Cohort Presents “BODY WORK” – A Test Drive of Resilience, Collaboration, and Creative Mileage

@ The Old Waterworks, Southend, SS0 7AB | 21–23 November 2025
Private View: Friday 21 November, 5–9pm
Open: Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November, 11am–5pm

TOMA 2024/25 artists exhibiting…

Pull into The Old Waterworks this November and enter the world of BODY WORK, the end-of-year show from the 2024/25 cohort of The Other MA (TOMA), Southend’s artist-led alternative art education programme.

BODY WORK is an exhibition that explores the joins, seams, and under-the-bonnet realities of creative practice. Expect painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, writing, performance, installation, and film; all tuned-up and ready to roll.

This isn’t your gleaming showroom display. Instead, BODY WORK is a celebration of paradoxical togetherness; a car lot full of unique, second-hand stories, revving engines, flat tyres, and creative reinventions. The artists present their work as vehicles for shared experience: weathered, modified, resilient, and still running strong.

The show is both a culmination and a critique. After 18 months of workshops, crits, and guest lectures, these artists reflect on the grit and gloss of making art within (and beyond) the systems that often privilege polish over process. Through their collective effort, they’ve buffed, rebuilt, and reimagined together.

As the cohort prepares to hand over the keys and graduate from the programme, BODY WORK invites you to join them for one last test drive.

Click on the thumbnails below to find out more about each exhibiting artist’s work! All photos by Anna Lukala.

Mark Amura (Copy)

Becky Buchanan (Copy)

Selena Chandler (Copy)

Karen Christensen (Copy)

Nathalie Coste (Copy)

Lucy Daley (Copy)

Sue Gascoyne (Copy)

Teddy Godwin (Copy)

Ella Johnston (Copy)

Majik (Copy)

Jo Morrison (Copy)

Martin Osman (Copy)

Amy Ryall (Copy)

Chanel Vegas (Copy)

About The Old Waterworks

Located in the heart of Southend, The Old Waterworks is a dynamic space for artists, activists, and makers. With studios, workshops, and events, it’s a home for creative practice and critical exchange, and where TOMA proudly continues to evolve.