Tend To It Events Programme (15 January)
Tend To It Events Programme 14 & 15 January 2022
Join us for the second round of Tend To It’s associate programme on 14 & 15 January 2022. We have a new series of FREE workshops by TOMA 19-21 cohort artists, Paige Ockendon, Jon Rust & Philippa Stewart. Due to popular demand Lu Williams is running their Make Your Own Fridge Magnet Workshop again, and Ruth Hazel is running their Creative Writing Workshop online! Additionally, to mark the end of Tend To It, we are running a closing event with performances by Maria Bird, Milky Genes & Paige Ockendon.
For more information on Tend To It click here.
‘Administry of Sound’ Workshop with Paige Ockendon
Online - Zoom
14 January 2022
14:00pm to 16:00pm
An online drop-in session which invites you to batter out some errands ahead of the weekend.
Whether it's life admin, application writing, Friday afternoon at your day job, tidying your studio or experimenting at the desk, you are invited to join this call and enjoy some group encouragement to get sh*t done!
Enjoy an alternative motivational playlist, pop-up colleagues, the occasional stretch and a half-time drawing exercise.
Use the chat function to get feedback ('Does this sentence read weirdly?')
Ask for tips ('Where can I get a last minute present for my 4 year old nephew?')
Share a task ('Can someone help me cut the word count down on this?')
Artist Bio:
Paige likes to celebrate shared experiences within her work, both as an artist and as a producer based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Her own playful practice merges administration, internet humour and all things naff with video, performance, and installation. Her work aims to connect people, be it through laughter, common ground, collective cringing, or a shared surprise.
‘Flint Remains’ Workshop with Philippa Stewart
The Old Waterworks
North Road
SS0 7AB
15 January 2022
11:00am to 14:00pm
Join artist Philippa Stewart to create your very own limited-edition artwork, using clay printing, drawing, and hand felting. Philippa will invite participants to handle replica prehistoric tools creating indentation prints on clay tiles. Participants will then create a custom calico skin by felting wool, which will act as a case for the artwork.
Artist Bio:
Philippa Stewart (b. Wolverhampton, UK, 1990) is an artist, designer and educator who lives in Essex. Philippa received a BA in Fashion and Textiles from University West of England, Bristol, (2009 – 2012) and is currently part of The Other MA (TOMA) 2019 -21 cohort. Philippa’s works manifest in the form of drawings, paintings, textiles, sculpture, and video. Works and research are primarily centred around the exploration of the role survivalism has played in prehistory, nature, and environment as a means of refuge and the importance of family passing down and sharing, skills, knowledge, and collections.
Make Your Own Fridge Magnet Workshop with Lu Williams
The Old Waterworks
North Road
SS0 7AB
15 January 2022
11:00am to 14:00pm
Join artist Lu Williams in creating and casting your own fridge magnet. Looking at artist merchandise, slogans, nostalgia and local imagery; we’ll design, create and cast magnets using clay and plaster.
Please note that this will be a fast paced workshop, with a focus on local activism and will not be suitable for young children. Ages 11 - 15 should be accompanied by an adult. This workshop will be messy, so don’t wear fancy clothes or bring an apron!
Artist Bio:
Lu Williams creates cross disciplinary artworks, events and printed matter with a focus on do-it-yourself culture, process, social practice, activism, intersectional feminism and class. For the last three years, Lu Williams has been creating, self-publishing, platforming and archiving zines as Grrrl Zine Fair through live events, zine workshops, Grrrl In Print zine and a LGBTQIA+ feminist library- the Grrrl Zine Library; which now resides at The Old Waterworks arts space in Southend-on-sea.
Creative Writing Workshop with Ruth Hazel
Online – Zoom
15 January 2022
14:00pm to 16:00pm
Ruth Hazel will lead participants through 3 creative writing exercises centering upon food, foods of comfort, joy, and those evocative memories. Attendees are invited to bring some of their favourite foods, to share or just to provoke their own thoughts.
No writing experience is necessary, this workshop is to inspire alternative ways of writing, an opportunity to express yourself in different forms; equally seasoned writers may also enjoy this fun approach to creative writing.
Artist Bio:
Ruth Hazel aka Fanny von Beaverhausen is a working-class queer artist from pitsea. Fanny uses memory and the recall of a moment in time to tell a story and create connection with the listener. Using settings seemingly insignificant, the ignored spaces of domesticity and servitude.
‘What an Earth is an NFT?’ Workshop with Jon Rust
The Old Waterworks
North Road
SS0 7AB
15 January 2022
15:00pm to 17:00pm
Are you curious about NFTs?
If so join TOMA artist Jon Rust who will host an informal workshop on what a ‘non fungible token’ is, how NFTs relate to ‘cryptocurrencies’; ‘Web 3.0’; and their application in terms of digital art and beyond. This workshop does not assume prior knowledge and is appropriate for those over 15 years of age.
Artist Bio:
Jon Rust lives and works in Essex. He has been making digital art since 2008 and has current work on show at the TOMA project space in The Royals Shopping Centre, Southend. He is particularly interested in the emergence of the NFT space and he’s keen to share his curiosity, knowledge and interest to discuss this exciting, confusing and contradictory new phenomena.
Tend To It Closing Event
TOMA Project Space
The Royals Shopping Centre
High Street
SS1 1NG
15 January 2022
16:00pm to 18:00pm
Join us and the Tend To It artist in celebrating the end of the longest running TOMA cohort so far. We will have drop-in BINGO BIRO with Paige Ockendon, a debut performance by Maria Bird, and Milky Genes will be showing a new improvisational performance. Come along, soak up the atmosphere, and help us close this fantastic show in style.
Paige Ockendon's BIRO BINGO
4:30-5:00pm
Family friendly rounds of Biro Bingo. All welcome!
Find new combinations of art materials and things you might like to draw.
Take 3 x spins on the bingo machine to receive loose instructions on drawing tools, surfaces and subjects, to help you create something different each time.
Have as many free spins as you like and take your artworks home or add them to our Bingo Gallery Wall.
Paige likes to celebrate shared experiences within her work, both as an artist and as a producer based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Her own playful practice merges administration, internet humour and all things naff with video, performance and installation. Her work aims to connect people, be it through laughter, common ground, collective cringing or a shared surprise.
Maria Bird Performance
5-5:30pm
Maria is an executive assistant at a fortune 500 firm based in London. As an anti-capitalist feminist anarcho queer Maria’s artwork explores identity crises, compromise, irony, transformation, acts of petty resistance and the grotesque.
Milky Genes Performance
5:30-6pm
Milky Genes is the alter ego of artist and musician Michael Paul Graham a Southend based artist who uses sound as an expressive tool to convey thought (though recently this work has become more digital and video based) well known for doing one off performances and bespoke DJ sets for receptive.
Tickets to these events are free, however if you would like to make a donation to help support TOMA's education and exhibition programme, please do so by also selecting the 'Donate to TOMA' ticket in addition to a 'General Admission' ticket.
In the event that places on the workshops or performances sell out, please email elliotgibbonsapple@gmail.com to be added to a waitlist.
These events are part of Tend To It's associated programme brought to you by the 2019-21 cohort of the TOMA (The Other MA) course. The Tend To It exhibition runs until 15 January 2021 at TOMA Project Space. With thanks to our funders and supporters Arts Council England and Metal.