Tend To It

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Opening: Saturday 23/01/21 12-6pm RSVP via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tend-to-it-a-group-show-from-toma-2019-2021-artists-tickets-126043279843 (bookable slots to ensure social distancing).

Then: 24/01/21 - 25/04/2021 with usual opening times: Saturday + Sunday 12-5pm

FREE performance in the gallery by Milky Genes : 4:30pm and 5:30pm on 23/01/2021.

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.