- Venue
- Big Screen Southend & Twenty One
- Starts
- Saturday, April 1, 2023
- Ends
- Monday, May 1, 2023
- Address
- Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Elmer Ave, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1NS Twenty One, Unit 21, Pier Approach, Western Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EH
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- The Other MA (TOMA)
Patchwork Arcade
Big Screen Southend and Twenty One Gallery
1st April – 1st May 2023 | Opening Event: Saturday 1st April 2023 4pm – 11.30pm
Patchwork Arcade offers visitors the chance to experience new work created during the past 6 months of the programme from our current 2022/24 TOMA cohort.
Patchwork Arcade brings together the artists’ diverse practices including video, painting, drawing, photography and sculpture.
Artists exhibiting…
Neeral Bhatt | Graham Burnett | Erene Dellaporta | James Forward | Gülşen Güler | Joanna Hartle | Edi McGurk | Eva Sbaraini | Kate Sullivan | Fredrix Vermin | Fern Worsley
You are invited to the opening event to view artworks alongside performances and DJs:
>> 4pm – 6pm at Big Screen Southend: Meet outside Focal Point Gallery – for film launch and performance from Fredrix Vermin
>> 6pm – 11.30pm at Twenty One: Patchwork Arcade exhibition opening event with performances, live music, DJs. TOMA designed pizzas + cocktails available.
The launch event is split into two happenings, and you are welcome to join for both. Note: there is a walk of approx 10 minutes between venues.
Address: Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Elmer Ave, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1NS
Twenty One, Unit 21, Pier Approach, Western Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EH
* 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.
