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# Focal Point Gallery

Contemporary visual arts organisation based in South Essex

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## Pages

- [Home Page](https://www.fpg.org.uk/)
- [Shop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/shop/) - Welcome to the Focal Point Gallery shop. You can browse our Editions, Publications, Merchandise, Invitations and Self-portraits online or in-person at the gallery. Since 1990 the gallery has published ‘printed matter’, acknowledging FPG’s partnership with the City’s main library and referencing the traditional seaside postcard or souvenir. This includes our ongoing series of printed invitations
- [Team and Advisory Group](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/staff/)
- [Spend the day in Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/visit-us/spend-the-day-in-southend/) - The Forum is adjacent to Southend High Street and well serviced by a number of cafe’s and eateries, particularly on Queens Road and London Road. Whilst in Southend there are a number of other cultural destinations you might like to visit, such as the Beecroft Art Gallery, The Old Waterworks, TOMA project space and Southend Central Museum, all within a 15 minutes’
- [Visit Us](https://www.fpg.org.uk/visit-us/)
- [Partnerships](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/partnerships-and-networks/) - Focal Point Gallery receives regular funding from Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation. The gallery also forms part of Southend-on-Sea City Council from which it receives regular support and funding.
- [Previous Events and Recordings](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/)
- [Learning for All Ages](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/learning-for-all-ages/)
- [Learning for 0-19 Years](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/learning-for-0-19-years/)
- [Contemporary Elders](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/contemporary-elders/)
- [About Us](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/about-us-2/)
- [About Us](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/)
- [Learning](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/)
- [Accessibility](https://www.fpg.org.uk/accessibility-statement/) - Focal Point Gallery understands disability within the Social Model. This means we believe it is our responsibility to stop our spaces being disabling and we are committed to making our venue accessible to everyone. Access is not a goal we achieve, but a continuous process of learning and responsibility to adapt our practices and program
- ['Things You Never Get Taught...'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/)
- [Activity Sheets](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/schools/activity-sheets/)
- [Learning for 18+ Years](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/learning-for-18-years/)
- [Schools](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/schools/)
- [S for Southend 2024 Booklet](https://www.fpg.org.uk/s-for-southend-2024-booklet/) - For ‘S for Southend 2024’, Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present artworks created by the participants of our learning programme, celebrating creativity in Southend-on-Sea. Along with pieces from Southend Youth Council and an intergenerational project, ‘Messages in the Sand’, works include those produced in Children’s Art Club, Contemporary Elders, Digifest, and our local school
- [Gwen Simpson Punch and Judy Script](https://www.fpg.org.uk/gwen-simpson-punch-and-judy-script/) - Mr Punch : ( strolling along singing, waving his rolled-up newspaper ) Oh! What a beautiful morning. Oh! What a beautiful day, I’ve got a wonderful feeling… Judy : ( hurrying after him ) Scues me, scues me! Mr Punch I need to talk to you Mr Punch : ( stops, and turns round )
- [Big Screen Southend Open Call: Guidance Notes for Applicants and FAQ](https://www.fpg.org.uk/big-screen-southend-open-call-guidance-notes-for-applicants-and-faq/) - Guidance notes for applicants What is the opportunity? We are looking for UK-based artists, filmmakers or individuals creating moving image artworks to be considered for the Big Screen Southend’s future programme. Big Screen Southend is an outdoor screen that exhibits moving image artworks in a public square in Southend-on-Sea. We will award £1,500 to
- [Big Screen Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/big-screen-southend/) - 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. A quarterly programme of curated or newly commissioned artist moving image are screened daily in the public setting
- [What is Climate Change?: Glossary](https://www.fpg.org.uk/what-is-climate-change-glossary/) - Weather vs. climate: Weather consists of short-term (minutes to months) changes in the atmosphere (temperature, rain, etc). Climate describes what the average weather is like over longer periods of time (more than 30 years) in a particular area. Climate change is a shift in those average conditions. Greenhouse gases are gases such as carbon dioxide
- [The benefits of Seagrass](https://www.fpg.org.uk/the-benefits-of-seagrass/) - Seagrasses are the only flowering plants able to live in seawater and pollinate while submerged, giving the appearance of underwater meadows. They support diverse marine ecosystems and are also vital in our combat against climate change: a hectare of seagrass may store two tonnes of CO2 a year and hold it for centuries. The UK
- [What do we mean by rising sea levels?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/what-do-we-mean-by-rising-sea-levels/) - Climate scientists monitor sea levels to understand how they have changed over time, to project how they might change in the future, and predict the impacts that these changes might cause. Sea level is monitored by tide gauges, including at Newlyn’s Tidal Observatory, and from space by satellites. In August 2019, the Met Office Hadley
- [What is Climate Change?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/what-is-climate-change/) - Over the last million years or so, the Earth’s climate has had a natural cycle of (cold) glacial and (warm) inter-glacial periods. This cycle is mostly caused by gradual changes in the Earth’s orbit over many thousands of years. But greenhouse gases produced by human activity are altering this cycle beyond this natural variation, and
- [What is Plankton?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/plankton/) - The most ancient and diverse group of creatures on the planet is marine plankton. There are two main types of plankton: phytoplankton, which are plants, and zooplankton, which are animals. Phytoplankton make their energy through exposure to light, and, like other plants, they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Zooplankton eat phytoplankton and then
- [Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programmes](https://www.fpg.org.uk/flood-and-coastal-resilience-innovation-programmes/) - The UK has good rainfall that flows over and through the land, and the sea is constantly changing our coastline. These are natural processes which have happened since time began. However, over many years, we have built housing and infrastructure close to water, meaning risks are growing as climate change leads to higher sea levels
- [Why is sewage pumped into the sea and rivers?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/why-is-sewage-pumped-into-the-sea-and-rivers/) - Most of the UK has a combined sewerage system, meaning that both rainwater and wastewater – from toilets, bathrooms, and kitchens – are carried in the same pipes to sewage treatment works. Capacity can sometimes be exceeded during heavy rainfall, especially when dry ground is unable to quickly absorb water. This can overwhelm the sewage
- ['Storm Warning' Selected Biographies](https://www.fpg.org.uk/storm-warning-selected-biographies/) - Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator, and artist specialising in climate change. Her work with videos, illustration, workshops, and data examines how colonial histories of climate change shape systems of power, technologies, ecologies, and today’s climate framings. She co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community and is an educator (games, fine art). Chan
- [Storm Warning: List of Works](https://www.fpg.org.uk/storm-warning-list-of-works/) - Big Screen Southend Angela YT Chan Waterscapes on Land, 2023 Film 04:50 mins Joey Holder Metis, 2023 Film 15:30 mins Window Gallery Joey Holder Model Organism, 2023 Wallpaper print Dimensions variable Gallery One David Watkins Slowly Sinking, 2023 Mixed media, wood and cork 180 x 100 cm Rebecca Chesney With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea,
- [FPG Commitments](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/fpg-commitments/) - At FPG, we are committed to building an inclusive community that reflects the increasing diversity of the area local to us. We believe in creating an inclusive community of staff, participants and audiences where everyone feels valued, where their contribution matters and where they can reach their full potential, irrespective of background, identity or circumstance.
- [Feedback](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/feedback/) - Subscribe to our mailing list * indicates required Email Address * First Name Last Name Interested in similar organisations and events? Please check this box if you do NOT want us to share your email with similar organisations
- [Printed Matter](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/)
- [Projects](https://www.fpg.org.uk/projects/)
- [Who Are We?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/who-are-we/) - Ever wondered what goes on at Focal Point Gallery? Find out more about who we are and what we do in our brand-new video. At Focal Point Gallery you can discover art exhibitions, workshops, outdoor film screenings on Big Screen Southend and more. Come and see for yourself, you are sure to receive a warm
- [Access and Facilities](https://www.fpg.org.uk/visit-us/access-and-facilities/)
- [S for Southend 2023 Exhibition Booklet](https://www.fpg.org.uk/s-for-southend-2023-exhibition-booklet/)
- [Previous Contemporary Elders](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/contemporary-elders/previous-contemporary-elders/)
- [Focal Point Gallery](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/focal-point-gallery/) - Focal Point Gallery is south Essex’s gallery for contemporary visual art, promoting and commissioning major solo exhibitions, group and thematic shows, a programme of events including performances, lm screenings and talks, as well as offsite projects and temporary public artworks. The organisation currently produces up to seven gallery exhibitions each year, in which artists and
- [Book a Workshop or CPD](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/schools/schools-workshop/) - Formerly part of a national initiative by Children & The Arts, Start is a programme of gallery based, creative activities for local children and young people. Thanks to the generous support of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, FPG Start will continue through 2020-21, building and sustaining relationships with schools in catchments of socio-economic deprivation. The programme facilitates arts activities over a
- [Bridge Commission Research Context](https://www.fpg.org.uk/bridge-commission-research-context/)
- [Test](https://www.fpg.org.uk/test/)
- ['Time After Tide' Acknowledgements](https://www.fpg.org.uk/acknowledgements/) - RikTheMost would like to make the following acknowledgements: Many thanks to Little Andromeda Theatre, Orange Studios, and Tūranga Library, for allowing me the use of their facilities to record and edit the vocal (such space is not easy to find whilst the pandemic has been sweeping through New Zealand), and for lending me equipment to
- [Keep in Touch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/keep-in-touch/) - Stay up to date with our current and forthcoming programme by subscribing to our mailing list. Email Address * First Name Last Name * indicates required Interested in similar organisations and events? Please check this box if you do NOT want us to share your email with similar organisations
- ['Lost in Music' Audio Transcript](https://www.fpg.org.uk/lost-in-music-audio-transcript/) - The sound of the needle being placed on a vinyl record. Voice over…… (starts in the needle playing section) Music is a universal medium and generates so many fond melodic journeys – Young gifted and Black starts… The tunes that melt your heart and re-awake the memories in your soul, of times past, of love
- [South Essex Homes](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/contemporary-elders/south-essex-homes/)
- [Twenty One](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/twenty-one/)
- [#7 Freelancing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-7-freelancing-and-the-coven/)
- [#6 Unpicking Proposals](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-6-unpicking-proposals/)
- [#5 Up Your Grant Game](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-5-up-your-grant-game/)
- [#4 Self Assessment](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-4-the-dreaded-self-assessment/)
- [#3 Dealing with the Pandemic](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-3-dealing-with-the-impact-of-the-coronavirus/)
- [#2 Fund a Film & Media Project](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-2-how-to-fund-a-film-and-media-project/)
- [#1 Project Grant Applications](https://www.fpg.org.uk/learning/things-you-never-get-taught/previous-events/tyngt-1-how-to-make-a-project-grant-application-to-arts-council-england/)
- [Selected Biographies](https://www.fpg.org.uk/tip-of-the-iceberg-selected-biographies/) - Shaun C. Badham lives and works in Essex. He creates long-term collaborative projects which are realised across a range of mediums, from local community actions to large-scale sculptural installations. Notable projects include, ‘I’M STAYING’ (2014 to present), ‘MORNING’ (2014 to 2018) and ‘PLOT’ (2018 to present). Shaun has recently shown a new body of
- [Radical ESSEX](https://www.fpg.org.uk/about-us/radical-essex/)
- [Updates](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/) - Check here for updates on Focal Point Gallery's expansion projects, future programme and organisational development. You can also receive more information by signing up to our mailing list, or following us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
- [Big Screen Southend Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/big-screen-southend-programme/) - Films from the Big Screen Southend programme for 'To Dream Effectively' are screened everyday from 10.00am to 5.00pm. Below is the running order of the films which have a combined running time of approximately 50 minutes, looping continually throughout the day. Please note, if you require a chair whilst watching the films in Elmer Square,
- [Science Fiction and Beyond](https://www.fpg.org.uk/science-fiction-and-beyond/) - Science-Fiction and beyond is a suggested reading list by Focal Point Gallery to compliment the exhibition, ‘To Dream Effectively’. These books offer us alternative realities and narratives that suggest a way we could dream a new future for ourselves. They are inspired by a broad range of voices in the field of science-fiction. The
- [Further Information](https://www.fpg.org.uk/further-information/) - Ursula Le Guin (1929 to 2018) Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was a celebrated and beloved author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, 12 children’s books, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebulas, nine Hugos, and SFWA’s
- [Selected Biographies](https://www.fpg.org.uk/to-dream-effectively-select-biographies/) - Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. For the past few years, she has been carrying out research around the concept of Gulf Futurism. Her primary interests are around the isolation of individuals via technology
- [Permanent Commissions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/permanent-commissions/)
- [Exhibitions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/)
- [Projects](https://www.fpg.org.uk/archive/projects/)
- [Events](https://www.fpg.org.uk/archive/events/)
- [Forthcoming](https://www.fpg.org.uk/projects/forthcoming/)
- [Permanent commissions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/projects/permanent-commissions/)
- [Forthcoming](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibitions/forthcoming/)
- [Events](https://www.fpg.org.uk/events/)
- [Exhibitions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibitions/)
- [Archive](https://www.fpg.org.uk/archive/)
- [Tide Times](https://www.fpg.org.uk/tide-times/) - Tide Times

## Exhibitions

- [Rosie Ridgway: Phantom Power](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/phantom-power/) - This summer, Focal Point Gallery presents Rosie Ridgway: Phantom Power, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Comprising all new work, this exhibition at Focal Point Gallery brings together interactive film, sound, costume and performance. A highly prolific and original artist, for over two decades Ridgway has explored collectivity within artmaking. What is involved
- [Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: rest in a networked world](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/compulsory-continuous-connectedness-rest-in-a-networked-world/) - This autumn Focal Point Gallery presents a group show exploring the impact of networked media on our collective mental wellbeing. Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: rest in a networked world is led by a new commission and research from artists Caroline Sinders and Romy Gad el Rab, and features work by Helen Cammock, Nina Davies, Rebecca Moccia,
- [Railway Bridge Commission 2026](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/railway-bridge-commission-2026/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present our annual Railway Bridge Commission with a new site-specific public artwork by Southend-born artist Elleanna Chapman. Do Somethin’ continues Chapman’s exploration of celebrity, identity, and popular culture, reimagining familiar public figures through unexpected visual and cultural pairings. Using found imagery, rhinestones, and nostalgic references, the work reflects the
- [Big Screen Associate Programme:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-associate-programme-3/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a programme of artist moving image to coincide with Rosie Ridgway’s exhibition Phantom Power. Works by D.M.S and Heart n Soul, Black Obsidian Sound System, Do Your Own Thing and Heart n Soul accompany a video by Ridgway's band Ravioli Me Away. The four videos bring together music, moving
- [Lucía Pizzani: Faunal Succession](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/lucia-pizzani/) - Venezuelan-born, London-based artist Lucía Pizzani presents her first institutional UK exhibition at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea. Through a series of new installations and in collaboration with artists Cecilia Bonilla, Jaime Gili, Javier Weyler and local community groups and schools, Pizzani reimagines the Essex coast through a ‘deep time’ lens, linking geological transformation with contemporary questions of
- [ESCALA Collection Presents:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/escala-collection-presents/) - Las Cáscaras is part of a larger body of work by Venezuelan artist Lucía Pizzani that reimagines the fantastical and emotive dimensions of metamorphosis, regeneration and transformations, processes akin to the growth of a second skin in the natural world. In this video-performance, a group of feminised bodies appear fully enveloped in human-scale cocoon garments
- [Big Screen Associate Programme:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-associate-programme-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a programme of artist moving image to coincide with Lucía Pizzani’s exhibition Faunal Succession. Works by Pilar Elgueta, Valentina Alvarado Matos and Rebeca Romero accompany a work by Pizzani. All four films look at the relationship between the human body and landscape, whether of this planet or otherworldly,
- [Relay 2026](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/10583-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 3 of the 2026 edition of Relay with Rosie Holman, Esther Elegbede and Julian Woollatt. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and featured on our website and social media platforms
- [Relay 2026](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-2026-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 2 of the 2026 edition of Relay with Avril Hockett, Ojoma Idegwu and Niki Cornish. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and featured on our website and social media platforms for
- [S for Southend 2026](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/s-for-southend-2026/) - S for Southend marks its fifth anniversary with a vibrant and diverse collection of works drawn from across the breadth of Focal Point Gallery’s Learning and Engagement Programme. This milestone exhibition brings together contributions from participants of all ages and backgrounds, spanning projects from Blank Slate, our youth-led programme, to Contemporary Elders, a collective of
- [Relay 2026](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-2026/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 1 of the 2026 edition of Relay with Rachel Dingle, Benny Elom and Ian Treherne. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and featured on our website and social
- [Poulomi Basu](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/poulomi-basu/) - Focal Point Gallery presents Always Coming Home, an immersive multi-room installation of new work by Indian transmedia artist and activist Poulomi Basu (b.1983, Calcutta). The exhibition combines moving image, photography, sculpture, sound and performance to create an interactive space where different realities and speculative futures simultaneously exist, exploring the notion of exile as a shared
- [Railway Bridge Commission 2025](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/railway-bridge-commission-2025-droichead-na-sidhe/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present our annual Railway Bridge Commission with a new site-specific public artwork by multi-disciplinary artist, Hazel O'Sullivan. Droichead na Sídhe is a two-part artwork composed of eight individual acrylic paintings on canvas that have been photographed, digitally enlarged and assembled into two banner-scale prints. The compositions are based on
- [Big Screen Southend:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend/) - To coincide with Poulomi Basu’s solo exhibition Always Coming Home, Focal Point Gallery presents a programme of artist moving image on the Big Screen Southend. Featuring works by Aqsa Arif, Asuf Ishaq, and Aziza Kadyri, alongside a collaborative film by Basu and CJ Clarke, the programme brings together works that engage with questions of transnational
- [In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/in-other-worlds-acts-of-translation/) - This summer, Focal Point Gallery presents a major exhibition developed in collaboration with the Roberts Institute of Art. This exhibition brings together over 25 works, some of which have never been shown in a public gallery before, from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, one of the UK’s foremost private collections. The exhibition engages with
- [Open Call Commission: Big Screen Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/open-call-commission-big-screen-southend/) - We are pleased to announce the Big Screen Open Call Commission My Wits or Salts by Bryony Gillard. The three chapters that comprise the work will be show on the Big Screen Southend and online, from 30 June to 30 September 2025. My Wits or Salts is a moving image work exploring porous entanglements between waste,
- [In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation Associate Programme:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/in-other-worlds-acts-of-translation-associate-programme/) - Focal Point Gallery and the Roberts Institute of Art are pleased to present programme of artist moving image to coincide with the group exhibition In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation. Screened daily on rotation on the Big Screen Southend from 21 June to 26 September 2025, 11am to 5pm. Films in order of appearance: Neïl
- [A Smile for Her](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/a-smile-for-her/) - We are pleased to screen A Smile For Her by Southend filmmaker Daniel Keeble, a short story of a man searching for something on the mudflats around a coastal town. Filmed on the muddy banks of the Thames, the film poignantly explores family, perseverance and death, how we are forced to grapple with loss and
- [Estuary Dreams](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/estuary-dreams/) - ‘Estuary Dreams’ is a community experimental storytelling project led by Basildon video-maker Aaron Shrimpton. Up to 20 participants – emerging artists, recent graduates, or creatives working outside traditional pathways – were selected to take part in workshops exploring unique Estuary narratives. Under Aaron’s guidance, and supported by renowned guest lecturers and artists, participants created experimental
- [Rafał Zajko](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/rafal-zajko/) - Focal Point Gallery presents the first UK institutional solo exhibition by Rafał Zajko. The Spin Off is a theatrical installation that reflects on memory, repetition, reappearance, cyclicality, preservation and pickling, following Zajko’s practice of world building. Spanning sculpture, installation, ceramics and fresco, a new departure for the artist, this presentation of an entirely new body
- [BA (Hons) Photography (UAL), South Essex College: Year 1 Showcase](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/year-1-ba-photography-ual-south-essex-college-showcase-2/) - Focal Point Gallery and BA Photography (UAL), South Essex College present the work of year 1 students at the Big Screen Southend. The Year 1 BA (Hons) Photography students at University Centre South Essex have made selections from their first year of study as a showcase for the end of year. Artwork by: Beth Callaghan,
- [Rafał Zajko Associate Programme:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/rafal-zajko-associate-programme/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present programme of artist moving image to coincide Rafał Zajko’s exhibition The Spin Off. Works by Jenkin van Zyl, Mary Ellen Bute and Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller and Ted Sears accompany a film by Zajko exploring where melody and rhythm meet silence, and how the audible relates to the
- [S for Southend 2025](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/s-for-southend-2025/) - Welcome to S for Southend 2025. We are proud to celebrate the community – the family – that has grown with us at Focal Point Gallery throughout 2024. From Children’s Art Club and Blank Slate to Contemporary Elders, Schools, and Creative Open Days, this exhibition reflects the relationships, creativity, and connections at the heart of
- [Relay Round 3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-3-3/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 3 of the 2025 edition of Relay with Adrian Green, I Knew These People (Amy McKenny, Chris Bellis-Wright, Bryan Styles, Lois Mauklin and Sarah-Ann Patel), and Alfie Winters and The One Hour Residency. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in
- [Art Exchange x Big Screen Southend:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/art-exchange-x-big-screen-southend/) - Big Screen Southend and Art Exchange present El Brujo, 2025, by Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana. This artwork is on view on the Big Screen Southend every day at 1pm and 4pm to coincide with their exhibition Take a Bow/Haciendo una Reverencia with Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester campus. Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana, El
- [Relay Round 2](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-2-3/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 2 of the 2025 edition of Relay with Alastair Johnson and Özlem Simsek, Esme Keenleyside and Sue Lesser. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and
- [TOMA Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/toma-takeover-2/) - On the occasion of The Other MA (TOMA) 2024/26 cohort's exhibition Reject Reflect Reclaim at Beecroft Art Gallery, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to host a TOMA Takeover of the Big Screen Southend. Each artist has created a 60-second film that will be screened daily from 22 February to 21 March in Elmer Square, adjacent to
- [Relay Round 1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-1-3/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 1 of the 2025 edition of Relay with Elle Godfree, Cerys Hogg and Dorothy Turner. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and featured on our
- [Adham Faramawy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/adham-faramawy/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Adham Faramawy, featuring two recent moving image pieces and a work on the Big Screen Southend. Recent works have delved into the hidden histories of rivers, particularly the Thames, and other waterways, revealing their roles as politically contested sites throughout time. Through poetic exploration,
- [After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/after-the-end-of-history-british-working-class-photography-1989-2024/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present 'After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024' which will explore contemporary British working class photography since 1989. Instead of looking at working-class people, the exhibition will explore life through the lenses of working-class practitioners, who have not only turned their gaze towards their own communities
- [Open Call: Big Screen Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/open-call-big-screen-southend-2/) - Focal point Gallery is proud to present moving image works by GWENBA, Jessa Mockridge and Joseph Noonan-Ganley, selected as part of Open Call: Big Screen Southend. The selection panel was comprised of Inês Costa, Curator at Focal Point Gallery, Ruth Jones, artist, independent curator, lecturer, and Director of The Old Waterworks and Morgan Quaintance, artist
- [Railway Bridge Commission 2024: 'Blue Collared'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/railway-bridge-commission-2024-blue-collared/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present our annual Railway Bridge Commission with a new site-specific public artwork by photographer Nico Smith. This year’s commission has been selected by curator Johny Pitts to accompany his Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition After the End of History: British working class photography 1989–2024, taking place at Focal Point Gallery
- [Big Screen Associate Programme:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-associate-programme/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present programme of artist moving image to run alongside the exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024. Works by Imogen-Blue Hinojosa and Rhea Storr look at how bodies and communities occupy and reclaim public space through music and dance, themes which are present in the
- [Year 1 and 2 BA Creative Media & Promotion, University Centre South Essex Showcase](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/sec-ba-creative-media-promotion/) - Focal Point Gallery and BA Creative Media & Promotion, South Essex College present the work of year 1 and year 2 students at the Big Screen Southend. With an emphasis on creative direction, styling and photography, the course offers direct entry to the creative media industry, specifically for careers in digital media, promotional design, social
- [Open Call: Big Screen Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/open-call-big-screen-southend/) - Focal point Gallery is proud to present moving image works by Beth Fox, Duncan Poulton & Sally Beets and Enej Gala, selected as part of Open Call: Big Screen Southend. The selection panel was comprised of Inês Costa, Curator at Focal Point Gallery, Ruth Jones, artist, independent curator, lecturer, and Director of The Old Waterworks
- [Year 1 BA Photography (UAL), South Essex College Showcase](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/year-1-ba-photography-ual-south-essex-college-showcase/) - Focal Point Gallery and BA Photography (UAL), South Essex College present the work of year 1 students at the Big Screen Southend. The Year 1 BA (Hons) Photography students at University Centre South Essex have made selections from their first year of study as a showcase for the end of year. Technical approaches have been
- [Big Screen Associate Programme:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/associate-programme-maz-murray/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present programme of artist moving image to coincide with Maz Murray’s exhibition Principal Boy. Works by Amy Pennington and Gaby Sahhar accompany a film by Murray, all looking at redevelopment and gentrification and its impact in place making and identity building. Screened daily from 11am to 5pm on Big Screen
- [Principal Boy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/maz-murray/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce 'Principal Boy', the first solo exhibition by Maz Murray, an artist filmmaker based in London and Basildon. Murray uses satire, surrealism, melodrama, and humour to talk about queer and trans identity, class, and the complexities of public life. They repurpose and subvert pop cultural tropes such as music
- [Relay Round 3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-3-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 3 the final round of the 2024 edition of Relay with Sasha Lorraine Aguirre, Nikki Laoye and Edi McGurk. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend
- [S for Southend 2024](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/s-for-southend-2024/) - Learn more about this exhibition by reading our exhibition booklet. Our community exhibition ‘S for Southend’ is back, showcasing artworks made by local residents and artists of all ages during 2023. We are delighted to share works made by participants across our learning programme and in collaboration with local organisations and charities to champion
- [Big Screen Southend x Art Exchange:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-x-art-exchange-3/) - Big Screen Southend and Art Exchange present When I Look At You I See Myself, 2023, by Daniel & Clara. This artwork is on view on the Big Screen Southend every day at 12.30pm and 3.30pm to coincide with their exhibition The Watcher and the Bird with Art Exchange at the Albert Sloman Library, University
- [Big Screen Southend x Art Exchange:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-x-art-exchange-2/) - Big Screen Southend and Art Exchange present 'How to make a proper cup of tea', 2019, by Hetain Patel. This artwork is on view on the Big Screen Southend every day at 12.10pm and 3.10pm to coincide with Hetain Patel's exhibition Jump at Art Exchange at the University of Essex, Colchester campus. Hetain Patel,
- [Relay Round 2](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-2-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 2 of the 2024 edition of Relay with Mia Jerome, Emma Mills and Snatcha. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and featured on our website
- [Relay Round 1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-1-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the Round 1 of the 2024 edition of Relay with Richard Baxter, Sonny Green, and Danielle Kassaraté. Each Southend-based creative was invited to share artwork, research, or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend and featured on
- [Big Screen Southend x Art Exchange:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-x-art-exchange/) - These artworks are part of Trinta/Treinta/Thirty, an exhibition at Art Exchange at the University of Essex, Colchester campus. The works on the Big Screen Southend at 12.10pm an 3.10pm every day. Eduardo Padilha's work Self-Portraits, 1995 is a collage of ID pictures which the artist gathered throughout the first half of the nineties. By superimposing them
- [Big Screen Southend x Art Exchange:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-x-art-exchange-bosode-by-akinsola-lawnson/) - This artwork is part of ‘I Put a Spell on You’ exhibition at Art Exchange at the University of Essex, Colchester campus. It plays on the Big Screen Southend at 12.10pm an 3.10pm every day. Akinsola Lawnson’s film Bosode opens up new worlds which critique the legacy of colonialism by taking us on a journey
- [The Storm](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-storm/) - Listen here to an audio work by Rebecca Chesney with Lubaina Himid as part of 'Storm Warning'. Since 2013 artist Rebecca Chesney has been gathering sound recordings of thunder storms in a number of locations in Romania, Italy, Germany and UK. Combining these field recordings with spoken word, she and artist Lubaina Himid have created
- [Storm Warning: What does climate change mean for coastal communities?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/storm-warning/) - and at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance 18th November 2023 to 13th April 2024 Launch: Friday 17th November 2023, 6.30pm to 10pm ‘Storm Warning’ is a collaborative project between Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance, which seeks to raise awareness of the impact of the climate crisis
- [“…her boots were thin and soft” – A Kind of Vanishing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/her-boots-were-thin-and-soft-a-kind-of-vanishing-damien-robinson/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new project by local artist Damien Robinson as part of New Histories: a project from the East Contemporary Visual Art Network (ECVAN) funded by Arts Council England to explore new regional histories from diverse communities across the East of England. Please click here to access “…her boots were
- [Railway Bridge Commission: 'Waterscapes on Land' Angela YT Chan](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/railway-bridge-commission-angela-yt-chan/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present our annual Railway Bridge Commission on Southend high street with 'Waterscapes on Land' a new temporary site-specific public artwork by artist, curator and researcher Angela YT Chan, in partnership with the Catchment to Coast project. Led by Southend City Council, it is one of 25 projects within the
- [Unstable Condition](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/unstable-condition/) - In her first solo institutional exhibition in the UK Rebecca Moss will include new and recent works. The exhibition will explore notions of ecological and economic instability featuring moving image, sculpture, photography and installation. The main gallery will feature a series of witty short format videos, where Moss performs to the camera, staging interactions between
- [Free Outdoor Family Friendly Cinema at the Big Screen](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/outdoor-family-friendly-cinema-screenings-at-the-big-screen/) - Free Outdoor Family Friendly Cinema at the Big Screen at The Forum are back, taking over a refurbished Elmer Square! This year’s programme has been selected in response to Southend Libraries annual summer reading challenge ‘Ready, Set, Read!’, a sports and games themed Challenge to encourage children to enjoy the benefits of reading for pleasure.
- [Big Screen Associate Programme: Esther Ferrer, Emma Hart, Rebecca Moss, Wood and Harrison](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-associate-programme-esther-ferrer-emma-hart-rebecca-moss-wood-and-harrison/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an Associate Programme of artist moving image to coincide with Rebecca Moss’ solo exhibition ‘Unstable Condition’. Works by Esther Ferrer, Emma Hart and Wood and Harrison accompany three short films by Moss, where all artists perform humorous actions to the camera, drawing on the tradition of slapstick humour.
- [Film Graduates Showcase: Lorenzo Irrera, Samuel Eliu Espinoza Parrales and Jake Parris](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/film-graduates-showcase-lorenzo-irrera-samuel-eliu-espinoza-parrales-and-jake-parris/) - Focal Point Gallery and Film & Television Production BA, South Essex College present the work of 2023 graduates Lorenzo Irrera, Samuel Eliu Espinoza Parrales and Jake Parris. A girl is trapped inside a fictional book world by an evil Shakespearean author in THE CHAPTER by Lorenzo Irrera. She will be forced to marry a knight
- [The Rise and The Fall](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-rise-and-the-fall/) - Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, the exhibition will subsequently tour to The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin (14 July-24 September 2023) and Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (26 October 2023 – January 2024). 'The Rise and The Fall,’ by Liz Magor presents a focused selection of works from the last five
- [Year 1 BA Photography (UAL), South Essex College](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/year-1-ba-photography-ual-south-essex-college/) - Focal Point Gallery and BA Photography (UAL), South Essex College present the work of year 1 students at the Big Screen Southend until 28 May. Artwork by: Kenneth Brown, Terence Castle, Joey Curtis, Abby Grainger, Ellie Green-Wright, Rhys Marshall, Samuel Meddle, and Rebecca Watts. The showreel will screen daily, from 12-1pm and 4-5pm until the
- [Film & Television Production BA, South Essex College, 2022 Graduates: Alex Chettur and Lewis Hobbs](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/film-television-production-ba-south-essex-college-2022-graduates-alex-chettur-and-lewis-hobbs/) - Focal Point Gallery and Film & Television Production BA, South Essex College present the work of Alex Chettur and Lewis Hobbs, who graduated in 2022. Dear Mr. Fantasy by Chettur, looks at a a young filmmaker’s attempts to recreate a cinematic masterpiece, questioning the impact of this obsession on one's life. Lewis Hobbs’ Jacob Hobbs Racing: The
- [Big Screen Southend Associate Programme: Richard Ducker & Ian Thompson](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-associate-programme-richard-ducker/) - Focal Point Gallery presents the work of Richard Ducker and Ian Thompson, The Accurate Perception Available When Our Eye Becomes Single, as part of our Big Screen Associates Programme. This immersive audio-visual film explores the enigmatic essence of Orford Ness, a shingle spit located on the Suffolk coast. This film transcends a linear narrative as
- [S for Southend 2022](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/s-for-southend-2022/) - ‘S for Southend’ is an inspiring new community exhibition taking place at Focal Point Gallery in January 2022. The exhibition will showcase artworks made by local residents and artists of all ages during our exhibition ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ and from this year’s Digifest, our annual celebration of digital arts. The exhibition includes artworks developed
- [Big Screen Southend Associate Programme: TOMA – Patchwork Arcade](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-associate-programme-toma-patchwork-arcade/) - Focal Point Gallery is proud to announce a collaboration with The Other MA (TOMA), on the occasion of the 2022/24 cohort’s exhibition ‘Patchwork Arcade’. This exhibition is TOMA’s cohort interim event, happening in two sites, with a screening of short films on Focal Point Gallery’s Big Screen Southend and a group exhibition at Twenty One.
- [Interview between Liz Magor and Katharine Stout](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/interview-between-liz-magor-and-katharine-stout/) - Interview between Liz Magor (LM) and Katharine Stout (KS) 24th February 2023 KS To start with a basic question, underpinning all your work it seems, is a relationship with the material world, which in this exhibition is represented by a focused selection of work from the last five years. What is it about this relationship
- [S for Southend 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/s-for-southend-2023/) - Launch Saturday 21st January – 12pm to 6pm Full booklet for 'S for Southend' 2023 ‘S for Southend’ is back for our community exhibition showcasing artworks made by local residents and artists of all ages during 2022. We are delighted to share works made by participants across our ongoing learning programme, including artworks created by
- [Big Screen Southend Associate Programme: Elleanna Chapman, Laura Jean Healey, Joe King and Rosie Pedlow, and David Valentine.](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-associate-programme-elleanna-chapman-laura-jean-healey-joe-king-and-rosie-pedlow-and-david-valentine/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a programme of artists moving images to coincide with the new group exhibition ’S for Southend 2023’. Including works by Essex-based artists: Elleanna Chapman, Laura Jean Healey, Joe King and Rosie Pedlow, and David Valentine. These works will be screened daily from 11 am to 5 pm on
- [FPG Sounds: Sign/Sound/Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/fpg-sounds-sign-sound-southend/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the final commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists or groups from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, artist Damien Robinson has been working with local D/deaf people and BSL users to explore how sound
- [Dub Plants + Estuary Acoustic Radio 2022](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/dub-plants-estuary-acoustic-radio-2022/) - Dub Plants + Estuary Acoustic Radio 2022 Listen here to a new audio work by Joe Namy as part of Receiver, a free exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Southend’s free art gallery, located just off Southend High Street until Friday 23rd December. Joe Namy explores the historically connected kinship between radio culture and agriculture. The
- [Big Screen Southend Associate Programme: Appau Jnr Boayke-Yiadom, Kelly Ann Buckley, Frazer Merrick, Nastassja Simensky](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-associate-programme-appau-jnr-boayke-yiadom-kelly-ann-buckley-frazer-merrick-nastassja-simensky/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an associate programme of artist moving image to coincide with the new group exhibition Receiver. Including works by Appau Jnr Boayke-Yiadom, Kelly Ann Buckley, Frazer Merrick and Nastassja Simensky. Screened daily from 11am to 5pm on Big Screen Southend from 1st October to 23rd December 2022. Films in
- [Receiver](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/receiver/) - Artists: Appau Jr Boayke-Yiadom, Frazer Merrick, Joe Namy, Nastassja Simensky ‘Receiver’ brings together four artists who consider sound in relation to innovative technologies, and our understanding of place. It explores Essex’s historic and current relationship with broadcasting pioneering audio technologies, the movement of people and cultures, and the unique soundscapes of its coastline and estuaries.
- [A Testament To Life & Death](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/a-testament-to-life-death/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the ninth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, The Repeat Beat Poet (Peter deGraft-Johnson) has produced audio recordings from his debut pamphlet, A Testament To Life &
- [FPG Sounds: Vibe Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/fpg-sounds-vibe-southend/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the thirteenth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists or groups from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, participants from Vibe Southend were joined by Frazer Merrick and Jack Vernon from CLIP for a series
- [FPG Sounds: Carrissa Baxter](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/fpg-sounds-carrissa-baxter/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the twelfth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission Southend-born spoken word artist, Carrissa Baxter has created three original pieces covering a range of topics that she is
- [Othered in a region that has been historically Othered](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/elsa-james/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the first major solo exhibition by British African-Caribbean artist, producer and activist Elsa James. Her most ambitious work to date, ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’ premieres in her home of Southend and is part of her ongoing enquiry into what it means to be
- [A fine little edge to slip in](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/a-fine-little-edge-to-slip-in/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the eleventh commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, multidisciplinary sound and visual artist Billie Baxter has created an explorative audio journey through their hometown of Southend. Recorded
- [Rings on Water](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/rings-on-water/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the tenth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For their contribution to Focal Point Gallery’s experimental sound programme artist’s Nastassja Simensky and Rebecca Lee present Rings on Water. The commission
- [Railway Bridge Commission: 'ESSEX @WAY from keyboard?'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/railway-bridge-commission-essex-way-from-keyboard/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new temporary public artwork by Essex-based artist George Morl with Elm Class of Nancealverne School in Penzance, consisting of two new site-specific works for the annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. Reflecting on 100 years of radio broadcasting in the county and Southend becoming a
- [New Histories](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/new-histories/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present two separate research projects by local artists' George Morl and Damien Robinson as part of New Histories: a pilot project from the East Contemporary Visual Art Network (ECVAN) funded by Arts Council England to explore new regional histories from diverse communities across the East of England. Electrum Spektrum
- [Relay Round 3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round3/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the second round of ‘Relay’ creatives Gemma Shaw, Kicassoo and Jon Rust. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video which will
- [Big Screen Southend Associate Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/big-screen-southend-associate-programme/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an associate programme of artist moving image to coincide with a new solo exhibition by Elsa James, 'Othered in a region that has been historically Othered'. Including works by Elsa James, George Morgan, Michael McMillan and an extract of a speech by David Lammy MP on the Windrush
- [The eel](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-eel/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the eighth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, writer Lucia Dove has created a work of creative nonfiction which explores the shared cultural histories between fishing communities
- [English Country Music](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/english-country-music/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the seventh commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, Essex-based alternative folk music collective The Owl Service have composed and recorded five new tracks, which present a contemporary
- [Relay Round 2](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the second round of ‘Relay’ creatives Daisy Hamlin, Trigger Bliss and Peter Haugh. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video which
- [Time After Tide](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/time-after-tide/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the sixth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, Southend-born, spoken word artist, performer and producer, RikTheMost, has created a new, long-form poem, entitled 'Time After Tide', as
- [Relay Round 1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round1/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the first ‘Relay’ creatives Mary Lodge, Hannah Brailsford and Victoria Sills. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video which will be
- [New Model Village](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/cui-jie/) - Following an initial research visit in Autumn 2019, to the 1920s modernist factory town at Silver End and the 1930s Bata Estate in East Tilbury in Essex, Cui Jie has been researching digital archives and records. This process has inspired new paintings and works on paper which explore the social and political context behind these
- [Hidden Sounds of Play](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/hidden-sounds-of-play/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the fifth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, artist Frazer Merrick has created an electromagnetic soundscape of Southend, ‘The Hidden Sounds of Play’. The track is composed of
- [Utopia Portals](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/utopia-portals/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new moving image commission for Big Screen Southend by artist Jessica Ashman. Awarded through a call for submissions in 2020, Utopia Portals will launch on 19 February and continue until 24 April 2022. The film will be screened daily on Big Screen Southend from 11am to 5pm,
- [Lost in Music](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/lost-in-music/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the fourth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, writer and director Josephine Melville has created a new sound work in the form of an experimental mixed tape.
- [Clifftown Sounds](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/clifftown-sounds/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the third commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, musician and songwriter M G Boulter has created a special episode of his podcast series ‘The Clifftown Podcast’, which
- [Parallel](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/parallel/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the debut screening of a new film by artist Rosanna Lee, made with the involvement of the Chinese community in South East Essex and filmed on location at The Pearl Dragon, Southend-on-Sea. Parallel will launch on 5 March and continue until 12 June 2022. Presented alongside a new
- [Adrian Lane](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/adrian-lane/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the second commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, artist Adrian Lane has composed and created a series of musical instrumentations inspired by locations, sounds and textures across
- [Echoes in the Fossils](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/echoes-in-the-fossils/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the first commission as part of 'FPG Sounds', a year-long online project to support the development of new sound works by artist from or based in Southend-on-Sea. In this five-part audio-visual work, Southend-based artist Kelly Ann Buckley (K-A-B) looks at the parallels between the devastation of a rich
- [Tip of the Iceberg](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/tip-of-the-iceberg/) - If you wish to book a free ticket in advance for your visit to the exhibition, please do so here, however booking is not essential. Artists: Shaun C. Badham, Becky Beasley, Kathrin Böhm, Graham Burnett, Gabriella Hirst with Warren Harper, Anna Lukala, Mary Mattingly, Uriel Orlow, Rachel Pimm, Alida Rodrigues, Zheng Bo This exhibition explores the
- [A View without the Bridge](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/a-view-without-the-bridge/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present a new site-specific artwork by Janette Parris for its annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. Parris has responded to this unique location at the heart of Southend’s Town Centre by making new drawings that reimagine a familiar view. Considering the wider locality of Southend and everyday
- [Death of a Village](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/death-of-a-village/) - We’re pleased to launch the first of two moving image commissions for Big Screen Southend, awarded through a call for submissions in 2020. Death of a Village, 2021, by artist Annabel Taylor Munt launches on 24 July and will continue until 11 September 2021. The film will be screened daily on Big Screen Southend from 11am
- [Open Call Screening Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/open-call-screening-programme-2/) - Following a call for submissions last year, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the second round of screenings awarded to artists to show work on Big Screen Southend over the next 3 months. The second open call screening programme includes works by Diane Edwards, Helga Fannon, Matthew de Kersaint Giradeau, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Ruaidhri Ryan,
- [On The Island](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/on-the-island/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a screening of works by Essex-based moving image artists Daniel & Clara. On The Island will screened daily on Big Screen Southend from 30 August to 10 September. Responding to the psychological impact of the global pandemic and the physical restrictions of lockdown, On The Island is a series
- [weeds by the moon](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/weeds-by-the-moon/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new moving image commission by artist Rachel Pimm, presented as part of the group exhibition ‘Tip of the Iceberg’. Weeds by the moon, 2020-21, launches on Saturday 11 September 2021 and will continue until 9 January 2022. The film will be screened daily on Big Screen Southend
- [How to Make a Bomb](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/how-to-make-a-bomb/) - As part of an ongoing project by artist Gabriella Hirst and curator Warren Harper, Focal Point Gallery hosted the ‘How to Make a Bomb’ presentation and rose grafting workshop at the gallery on 12th September 2021, which provided knowledge and discussion about British atomic history, rose gardening and the links between the military and the
- [What Makes Good Public Art?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/what-makes-good-public-art/) - 'What Makes Good Public Art?' is the outcome of a project with Southend-based artists Emma Edmondson and Lu Williams who were invited to respond to research that has emerged from Towns and the Cultural Economies of Recovery: an AHRC funded project to scope future research priorities that enhance understandings of culture, towns and economic recovery.
- [Relay Round 4](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-4/) - FPG is pleased to announce the fourth ‘Relay’ creatives Thomas Eatherton, Alice Ryan and Kiya Wilson. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video. Please see more information on
- [Relay Round 1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-1/) - FPG is pleased to announce the first 'Relay' creatives Ben Chandler, Anne Odeke and Emy P. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video. For more information on 'Relay'
- [Relay Round 3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-3/) - FPG is pleased to announce the third ‘Relay’ creatives Eleanor Cunningham, Sarah Holburn and James Wilshire. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video. Please see more information on
- [Relay Round 2](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-2/) - FPG is pleased to announce the second ‘Relay’ creatives Tom Broderick, Natasha Kamburova and Ren Stedman. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video. For more information on ‘Relay’
- [Catherine Hyland](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/catherine-hyland/) - Originally commissioned as part of the Radical ESSEX programme, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographic works by Catherine Hyland at Twenty One. Hyland’s photographs convey the quiet monumentality of Essex’s modernist architecture, now gently embedded into the landscape and consciousness of its residents, visualising the crucial role the county has
- [Practice Makes Perfect](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/practice-makes-perfect/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present the first institutional exhibition of new work by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. Book a time slot to visit the exhibition here. Tickets are free of charge. Booking isn't essential but you might be asked to wait if
- [Every Thought There Ever Was](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/every-thought-there-ever-was/) - Drawing on philosophical ideas and scientific research, this ambitious project by UK based artist Lindsay Seers considers historical representations of schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition achieved through the use of virtual reality. Through digital animation, special effects, drawing and sound design, ‘Every Thought There Ever Was’ explores the extraordinary brain functioning that occurs
- [Other Voices, Other Rooms](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/other-voices-other-rooms/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a public gallery of the British artist Paul Anthony Harford. Paul Anthony Harford lived and made drawings in Southend-on-Sea and Weymouth, before passing away at the age of 73 in Leigh-on-Sea in 2016. Harford produced hundreds of meticulous large-scale drawings throughout his lifetime.
- [Cthonic Index](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/cthonic-index/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Chthonic Index’, a two-part project between Focal Point Gallery and Southend’s Central Museum. For the work, Southend-based artist and writer Sophie Sleigh-Johnson investigates the idea of the ‘flicker’, a term used to describe a moment in flux, emphasising the oscillating space between light, inscription and objects. For the
- [#75](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/75-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘#75’, an exhibition showcasing the galleries series of printed matter since 2009. Whilst other institutions are no longer producing printed invitations, Focal Point Gallery’s projects are always accompanied by a unique printed artifact. Each individual item, including bags, books, t-shirts and bookmarks, is logged with a '#' number.
- [Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/graphics-interchange-format-25-years-of-focal-point-gallery/) - ‘Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery’ is a multi-screen installation showcasing a collection made up of hundreds of GIF animations. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a technology that has been in use for around twenty-five years, it was developed as an early method of compressing digital images for distribution through the internet.
- [If You Want To Talk About Light You Have To Talk About Waves](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/if-you-want-to-talk-about-light-you-have-to-talk-about-waves/) - Bridget Smith has exhibited her work internationally and is known for a style that is both documentary and reliant upon the imagination. Smith’s images explore the interplay between objectivity and subjectivity. This ambitious new work takes the artist’s interest in the transformative properties of light, colour and pattern further, into a series of installations throughout
- [The Sunless Sea](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-sunless-sea/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present Paul Johnson’s exhibition ‘The Sunless Sea’, a series of new work by the British artist, presented in FPG’s main gallery, window space and display cabinets. Inspired by south Essex’s history of attracting utopian thinkers and the artist’s continued interest in the failed historic attempts to fulfil such visionary
- [Tooth House](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/tooth-house/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Tooth House’, an exhibition by the British artist Ian Kiaer. ‘Tooth House’ was first shown at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds where a new body of sculptures was developed in relation to the gallery spaces. This work is transposed to the spaces here in Southend, alongside a series
- [Open Call Screening Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/open-call-screening-programme/) - Following a call for submissions last year, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce a programme of moving image from twelve artists who have each been awarded the opportunity to show work on Big Screen Southend throughout the year. The artists include Ryan Christopher, Diane Edwards, Helga Fannon, Helen Anna Flanagan, Katharine Fry, Matthew de
- [Relay Round 5](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/relay-round-5/) - FPG is pleased to announce the fifth and last ‘Relay’ creatives Davey Hal, Samantha Anderson and Clara Robson. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creative practitioners. Each artist will be invited to share work, research or work in progress in the form of a one-minute video. Please see more
- [TOMA Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/toma-takeover/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a programme of artist moving image by participants of The Other MA (TOMA) on Big Screen Southend and online. Made and previewed on our website during the first national lockdown of 2020, the works here are presented as a second iteration along with a series of supporting material
- [Imagining a New Future](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/imagining-a-new-future-display/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present drawings, photos, poetry and text made by local residents over the unusual summer of 2020 displayed in our gallery window, on Big Screen Southend and here on our website. People of the town were invited to tell us about their activities or new experiences during the first lockdown,
- [A Lament For Power](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/a-lament-for-power/) - We're pleased to present 'A Lament for Power'. A new film by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy available to watch on our website and Big Screen Southend until 28 February. This ambitious new film explores the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in our age of avatars, video gaming and
- [Black Bile 84](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/black-bile-84/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a public gallery by Southend-born artist, Rick Buckley. This new series of works will be split between the gallery and the Pavilion at the end of Southend’s pier – the first time the gallery has installed work on this iconic landmark. In the
- [#STANDARDISER](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/standardiser/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present Hannah Sawtell’s exhibition ‘#STANDARDISER’. Having shown her work internationally, this is the first time the British artist has produced new work to occupy an entire public institution, including the entrance foyer and exterior of the building. Sawtell’s multi-disciplinary work is concerned with the consumption of images and objects
- [Announcer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/announcer/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present David Mabb’s exhibition ‘Announcer’. The British artist has gained international recognition for his appropriation of the work of 19th century designer and socialist, William Morris (1834–1896). This exhibition marks an exciting culmination of Mabb’s work which, for over fifteen years, has investigated the utopian socialist concerns in Morris’
- [Endears me, yet remains](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/endears-me-yet-remains/) - “The whole crowd became absolutely silent as we came onto the stage, the band to gear up and me to undress and pick up the camera. For a moment I was concerned it would kill the energy of their show, but the silence switched to a surge of energy and relief and I was forgotten,
- [SUNLIGHT](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/sunlight/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘SUNLIGHT’, Elizabeth Price’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery since winning the 2012 Turner Prize and the inaugural show in the gallery’s new space. A two-screen video work, SUNLIGHT (2013) occupies the main gallery space and forms the first part of a trilogy of new video works
- [Video](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/video/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Video’, Eddie Peake’s first UK regional solo exhibition, which is divided between the organisation’s main space and project room through site-specific material indicative of the artist’s burgeoning practice. New work includes a large sprayed wall painting, a marble sculpture of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and an invented structural
- [What Happened to Helen?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/what-happened-to-helen/) - I didn’t want to sublimate my ego, my vanity’, she said. ‘You know that kind of ensemble feeling –"We’re all in this together." No, actually, we’re not all in this together. I am the queen. I am the star, and, you know, suck it up.’ Just as soon as the words were out of her
- [In the disappearing mist, the gift whispers](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/in-the-disappearing-mist-the-gift-whispers/) - 'breaking, to reach you, what was maybe, visible, as summer begins to close, memories call, and see, on the beach she listens, a matter of finding, knowing, fragments and possibility, words being tried...' Three into one: a re-appearance, a fresh breeze, a gathering of friendships with Kathy Acker, David Barton, John Cussans, Tatjana Doll, Margarita
- [Kitty Kraus](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/kitty-kraus/) - For her first solo exhibition in a British publicly funded gallery, Kitty Kraus will present four elements of her current work: an antennae piece, a found window ‘shutter’ cut to shape, gap reflecting lamps, and a series of drawings that present the fictional and often deliberately incorrect trajectories of light escaping from the inwardly reflective
- [Thames Delta](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/thames-delta/) - ‘Thames Delta’, curated by David Elvin. Barry Sinclair and Focal Point Gallery, reflects the growth, variety and development of popular music by those groups and individuals that have grown up or lived in the Southend-on-Sea, Canvey Island and Basildon area since the late 1940s. The project will draw a time-line from the end of World
- [THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/this-this-monster-this-things/) - Giorgio Sadotti ‘THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS’ Includes work by Shahin Afrassiabi, Fiona Banner, Mark Beasley, Vanessa Billy, Roxane Borujerdi, Eleanor Brown and Loolie Habgood, David Burrows, Denna Cartamkhoob, Rachael Champion, Steven Claydon, Kelly Eginton, Laura Eldret, Graham Fagen, Karin Felbermayr, Ella Finer, Ceal Floyer, Freee, Neil Gall, Anya Gallaccio, Liam Gillick, Matt Hale, Matthew
- [Jean Genet… The Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Three featuring Dan Fox](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/jean-genet-the-courtesy-of-objects-chapter-three-featuring-dan-fox/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present Marc Camille Chaimowicz ‘Jean Genet… The Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Three, featuring Dan Fox’. Chaimowicz is famed for his installations and performances that include preparatory photographs, collages and prototypes, as well as found objects and artwork by others. As a Frenchman who works out of London, he has
- [Kaiki](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/kaiki/) - An exhibition of artist Kai Althoff's work selected by Saim Demircan. I remember sitting in a café in New York late last year when Kai agreed to a show at Focal Point Gallery, which would accompany the play he and Yair were already developing. It wasn’t long after this meeting that he asked me to
- [The Year of the Left Hand / Folkal Point](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-year-of-the-left-hand-folkal-point/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present Aaron Angell’s first solo exhibition. Taking the form of a project in two parts, and divided between the gallery’s main space and project room, ‘The Year of the Left Hand’ / ‘Folkal Point’ includes a range of new material from the young artist’s burgeoning practice, such as wall
- [Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/outrageous-fortune-artists-remake-the-tarot/) - ‘Outrageous Fortune’ was a Hayward Touring exhibition showcasing contemporary artists’ interpretations of the classic Tarot de Marseille deck of cards. Tarot playing cards originated in Italy in the 15th century. Used in most of Europe to play games, in the English-speaking world the tarot is generally associated with divination and fortune telling. A rich source
- [Orbitecture II: Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/orbitecture-ii-everything-under-heaven-is-in-utter-chaos-the-situation-is-excellent/) - ‘Orbitecture II: Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent’ curated by Cedar Lewisohn and Focal Point Gallery 18 April to 11 June 2011 Artists include: Gerd Arntz, Ray Brassier, Pim Conradi, johnny de philo, Romain Gavras, The Gut Club, Head Gallery, Eileen Joy, Dean Kenning, Rachel Kushner, Patricia MacCormack, Alastair MacKinven,
- [Please do not place drinks on vitrines or books](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/project-space-please-do-not-place-drinks-on-vitrines-or-books/) - ‘Please do not place drinks on vitrines or books’, curated by Arnaud Desjardin, is an exhibition of publications and compendiums on artists’ books specifically designed for Focal Point Gallery’s new project space. Starting with Germano Celant’s exhibition pamphlet and catalogue from 1972, Book as Artwork, and continuing through examples from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
- [Anti-Photography](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/anti-photography/) - William Anastasi, Walead Beshty, Mel Bochner, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Anne Collier, David Raymond Conroy, Jan Dibbets, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ceal Floyer, Mario Garcia Torres, John Hilliard, Sherrie Levine, Sara MacKillop, Dan Rees, Ed Ruscha, Joachim Schmid, John Stezaker, Wolfgang Tillmans, and James Welling. ‘Anti-Photography’ brings together a selection of historic and contemporary works exploring
- [The Empty Plan](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-empty-plan/) - Focal Point Gallery presents a new feature length film, The Empty Plan, by London based artist filmmakers Anja Kirschner and David Panos. The piece considers the historical context for the work of renowned German playwright Bertolt Brecht, reconstructing four productions of his play, Die Mutter across three decades, and contrasting rehearsals and performances with Brecht’s
- [The ticket is for today](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-ticket-is-for-today/) - Focal Point Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Moscow-based artist Anna Parkina. ‘The ticket is for today’ consists of two parts: a display of book pages, and a newly commissioned film. The first section of the exhibition shows a decomposed adaptation and archival rendering of Parkina’s new book Biryulevo. Taking its name from a suburb
- [Infermental](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/infermental/) - ‘Infermental’ curated by George Clark and Dan Kidner, surveys the ‘first international magazine on videocassettes’ initiated by Hungarian Filmmaker, Gábor Bódy in 1981 and is the first significant presentation of the project in a UK gallery. A specially built screening room and three viewing platforms, designed by artist James Richards, host three of the eleven
- [New Wooabbeleri](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/new-wooabbeleri/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Stuart Whipps. Coming off the back of his recent solo projects for New Art Gallery Walsall and Oriel Davies, as well as his contribution to the latest edition of the seminal exhibition EASTinternational – for which the selectors Art & Language (Michael
- [Me, You, Us, Them](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/me-you-us-them/) - For her first solo exhibition in the UK, the Swedish artist Petra Bauer will explore the history of UK film collectives from the 1970s and 1980s. Through ‘Me, You, Us, Them’, Bauer’s intention is to re-examine claims made by political filmmakers at this time, and bring the various issues that preoccupied the period’s practitioners into
- [No more racing in circles — just pacing within lines of a rectangle](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/no-more-racing-in-circles-just-pacing-within-lines-of-a-rectangle/) - Tris Vonna-Michell has recently risen to prominence for his photo-installations and story-telling actions, and it is fair to say that he is now regarded as one of the leading performance artists of his generation. Originally hailing from the greater Southend-on-Sea conurbation (Vonna-Michell was born in Rochford and brought up on the border of Westcliff-on-Sea and
- [Let’s Take Back Our Space](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/lets-take-back-our-space/) - Listen to Marianne Wex in discussion with Mike Sperlinger, ahead of installing 'Let’s Take Back Our Space' A transcript will be available shortly. ‘When an acquaintance greets me on the street by lifting his hat, what I see from a formal point of view is nothing but the change of certain details within a
- [Caprona](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/caprona/) - Focal Point Gallery, Artists' Research Centre (ARC) and Southend Libraries and Museums are pleased to present a series of outcomes from Alexandra Leykauf's Research Fellowship, which forms part of the ARC Creative Libraries Programme in Southend-on-Sea. As part of ARC’s ongoing programme at the intersection of performance politics and popular culture, Leykauf has been carrying
- [Sounds of the Sea and Shops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/sounds-of-the-sea-and-shops/) - ‘Sounds of the Sea and Shops’ will be the US-born artist Erik Blinderman’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Working predominantly with film and photography, the artist has developed a practice that shows a concern for the dislocation of time and place through unexpected narrative structures. Blinderman’s interest in Southend-on-Sea has also grown through regular
- [Savoir Faire](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/savoir-faire/) - ‘Savoir Faire’ will be Milly Thompson’s first regional solo exhibition in the UK. Thompson has gained a reputation for a self-deprecating approach to her work, and for a more formal aesthetic than the directly critical approach that she employed while working as a member of the group BANK in London during the 1990s. Interested in
- [Out There, Not Us](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/out-there-not-us/) - Are you French? Do you like Paris Hilton? Do you speak Hilton? Do you dance in Hilton’s space? Who have you looked at? What have you seen of Hilton? What have you touched? Has Paris touched you? Have you touched something of hers? What Paris is touching you? Do you torch her fire? Are you
- [Performances 2006 to 2009](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/performances-2006-to-2009/) - This exhibition by Alastair MacKinven will be the first presentation of the artist’s recent performance-based works. Developed over a three-year period, these actions have become an integral part of MacKinven’s visual research, which has previously focused on a critical engagement with painting as well as a number of other diverse projects. Through his performances, the
- [The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/mark-fell/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to announce an ambitious new sound commission by the artist and musician Mark Fell. Using sound synthesis and pattern generating systems, A Stitch Outside Time is presented in the form of an app that has been designed to uniquely complement journeys on the London to Southend c2c train line, which
- [The Estuary](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-estuary/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of British painter John Wonnacott, the first in his hometown of Southend-on-Sea. ‘The Estuary’, curated with Professor Lynda Morris, brings together a series of works featuring the artist’s most viewed subject; the Thames Estuary. For over 60 years John Wonnacott has witnessed the changing situation
- [Day Tripper](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/day-tripper/) - ‘Day Tripper’ brings together painter Liz Arnold (1964-2001) with two contemporary artists, Maria Farrar and Samara Scott, in consideration of the continued relevance of Arnold’s original and inventive practice. Arnold lived her teenage years in Southend-on Sea, and like many at this formative time of life found herself trapped between child and adulthood, out-growing her
- [One Summer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/railway-bridge-commission/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new temporary public artwork for its annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. This year, artist Samara Scott has been invited to create a brand new large-scale artwork which will adorn either side of the bridge’s façade in the centre of the town. Visible for a
- [Vision Verticale](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/vision-verticale/) - Big Screen Southend is pleased to present ‘Vision Verticale’ by Monster Chetwynd. As part of the associate programme for ‘Day Tripper’, the film will be screened each day throughout the exhibition at 10.00am, 12.00pm, 2.00pm and 4.00pm. Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Vision Verticale 2014 Duration: 31 min 10 sec © Monster Chetwynd, courtesy of the artist
- [The World After](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-world-after/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘The World After’, a newly commissioned work and exhibition by artist David Blandy. Comprised of a film, installation and game, ‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines a world after the Anthropocene era, a time in which humanity’s activities had detrimental effect on earth’s climate and
- [UK Gay Bar Directory](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/uk-gay-bar-directory/) - To coincide with Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ current solo show, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present online excerpts from ‘UK Gay Bar Directory (UKGBD)’ during the current closure of the gallery. This video work comprises extracts from a moving image archive of over 100 gay bars filmed across the UK by the artists
- [Start Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/start-programme/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present the first in a series of videos that emerge from a year round programme of gallery based, creative activities for local children and young people. Our Start Programme facilitates art activities over a sustained period of time, with local schools visiting two exhibitions per year. Start's practical workshop sessions reference our exhibitions with hands-on and
- [Start Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/start-programme-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present the second in a series of videos that emerge from a year round programme of gallery based, creative activities for local children and young people. Our Start Programme facilitates art activities over a sustained period of time, with local schools visiting two exhibitions per year. Start's practical workshop sessions reference our exhibitions with hands-on and
- [To Dream Effectively](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/to-dream-effectively/) - Artists: Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle), Diann Bauer, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Caspar Heinemann, Leyla Pillai, Tabita Rezaire, Himali Singh Soin, Emilija Škarnulytė, Rosie Grace Ward Book a time slot to visit the exhibition here. Tickets are free of charge. Booking isn't essential but you might be asked to wait if the gallery
- [Cthuluscene](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/chthulucene/) - 'Cthuluscene' is a new video work by David Blandy and Claire Barrett that addresses the climate crisis and our collective future, through a close examination of nature. Shot at University College London’s Grant Museum, the camera gazes at a history of enquiry, of classification and dissection made while some of the subjects of the enquiry
- [In My Room](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/rosie-hastings-and-hannah-quinlan/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce ‘In My Room’, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ first solo institutional exhibition, bringing together film, fresco painting and works on paper. As a new body of work, ‘In My Room’ develops the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This enquiry builds
- [Arrowcut Slab (colliding not thriving)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/arrowcut-slab-colliding-not-thriving/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new temporary public artwork by Rosie Grace Ward consisting of two new site specific works for its annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. Drawing inspiration from Southend’s Anglo Saxon history, each panel - one decorative, one figurative, depict both sides of an intricately carved slab
- [Resurrection Lands](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/resurrection-land/) - CLICK THE GIF TO PLAY THE GAME Having lost all our history, we needed a way to bring it back. So we resurrected our Black Trans ancestors using the most advanced technology we had. Those that were resurrected now live out their second life in a digital environment built to sustain them. However when this
- [CANWEYE  { }](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/canwey/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘CANWEYE { }’, the first solo exhibition by British artist Frances Scott. This ambitious commission develops the artist’s interest in the apparatus of film within a three-part construction in Gallery 1. Here, different vantage points are offered on a new moving image work, filmed on 16mm in Essex
- [On Peacock Island](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/on-peacock-island/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘On Peacock Island’, the first major solo exhibition of the German artist Volker Eichelmann. The exhibition features a series of new work by the artist, incorporating a an arrangement of drawings by Stephen Tennant (1906-1987), one of the most prominent of the ‘Bright Young Things’ – an influential
- [The Bear Pit](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-bear-pit/) - ‘The Bear Pit’ is a purpose-built installation, which simultaneously operates as both studio and exhibiting space. Visitors are restricted to a raised gantry which surrounds and creates a viewing point for an enclosed area below. Three artist-run spaces from around the UK have been invited to curate a programme of events, exhibitions or residencies for
- [duh? Art and Stupidity](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/duh-art-and-stupidity/) - Including works by Tariq Alvi, BANK, Michael Bracewell, Archie & Edith Bunker, Werner Büttner & Albert Oehlen, Bonnie Camplin, Cecelia Condit, The Cockettes, Claude Faraldo, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Isa Genzken, Gaylen Gerber, Judith Hopf, Larry Johnson, Erik van Lieshout, Kalup linzy, Clunie Reid, Kim Schoen, Lily van der Stokker, Annika
- [The Peculiar People](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-peculiar-people/) - Including artworks and archival material from Access Credit Card, Alan Kane, Jeremy Deller, Dan Mitchell and Simon Periton, Alan Sorrell, Alfred Hitchcock, Ashingdon Colony, Basildon New Town, Bata International, Caspar Heinemann, Cedric Price, Christian Nyampeta, Colin Ward, Dial House, Dunton Plotlands, Eduardo Paolozzi, Essex Wildlife Trust, Gloria Jackson, Graham Burnett, Hadleigh Farm Colony, Hammer Prints
- [The Remains](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/the-remains/) - To coincide with 'The Peculiar People' exhibition, Gallery 2 housed an installation by the artist Christian Nyampeta. The space was designed by the artist as a framework to an evolving radical library and dynamic programme of performances, permaculture experiments, readings and public discussions which extend, question and re-examine modes of non-conformity within a wider cultural
- [Southend Editions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/southend-editions/) - A collection of editions from Southend Arts Organisations including Metal, The Old Waterworks, The Other MA (TOMA) and Focal Point Gallery. Installed across Twenty One's curved wall.
- [Exhibition for Go-Getters](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/exhibition-for-go-getters/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Exhibition for Go-Getters‘, the first major UK solo exhibition of the Austrian artist Torsten Slama. The exhibition comprises the artist’s work spanning over the past seven years and includes a series of new works made especially for Southend. This new series of drawings and paintings showcases some of
- [Maximum Overdrive](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/maximum-overdrive/) - Julia Crabtree and William Evans, Thomas Lock, Nina Wakeford, Lucy Woodhouse. Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Maximum Overdrive’, an ambitious project that seeks to connect the gallery space to its immediate social context at Elmer Square. Artists, practitioners and community groups are invited to activate set perimeters designed by the gallery, mirroring the
- [Theatre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/theatre/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Theatre’, a newly commissioned work by British artist Hilary Lloyd. Shot in the Palace Theatre in Westcliff-on-Sea, Lloyd worked with a group of actors and non-actors to produce a series of films of people and dogs acting out a script written by the artist. Theatre in Gallery 1
- [Get Out and Push!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/get-out-and-push/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present 'Get Out and Push!', an exhibition that begins with the British Free Cinema film movement of the late 1950s. The term ‘free’ is used loosely to denote a programme of films having been made free from propaganda, under independent circumstances or free from technical and social convention. As
- [Residency Programme 2009/2010](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/residency-programme-2009-2010/) - Focal Point Gallery are pleased to announce the participants for the organisation’s 2009 / 2010 Artist Residency Programme. Tris Vonna-Michell, Petra Bauer and Stuart Whipps will each spend three months in Southend-on-Sea, on the South East coast of the UK, developing new work to be shown in the gallery between January and June 2010. Tris
- [100% Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/100-southend/) - To coincide with the launch of Twenty One, the gallery showcased the diverse range of artistic practice in the area by inviting every Southend and SS postcode artist to take part in the first exhibition ‘100% Southend’. ‘100% Southend’ is a continuation of Focal Point Gallery's 2014 project, which explored categorisations of how people engage

## Events

- [Blank Slate: Self Portrait Illustration](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-2/) - Please note, this is for ages 13 to 16 years only. Exploring character illustration through self-portraiture with artist, Craig Hallums. This workshop will provide an overview of Craig's process: from finding and creating references, to sketching and crafting a narrative, and ultimately to a fully inked illustration. We will explore practical drawing techniques, and discuss
- [Touch Talk Tour](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/touch-talk-tour/) - We are delighted to be working with Sound Scribe and are pleased to invite you to a special event at Focal Point Gallery on Monday 24 August, 2.00pm to 4.30pm. Join us to explore our current exhibition, Rosie Ridgway, Phantom Power, the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK. The afternoon will include a touch tour
- [Creative Open Day: The Test Space](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-the-test-space/) - Join us for our next Creative Open Day at Focal Point Gallery, delivered in partnership with The Other MA, for a special Scratch Night taking place from 11am to 3pm in our gallery. To book your space as a performer or as audience, please head to our Eventbrite page. Hosted by Kim Davey and Geegee, in the intimate setting
- [Contemporary Elders: August Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-august-workshop/) - Join us for the next Contemporary Elders with artist Erene Dellaporta on Saturday 22 August 10:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 3:30pm. In this workshop, we will examine the body, mind, space and how the accumulation of marks evolves to create the human form and beyond. As both the artist and the model, we
- [Blank Slate: Multimedia Zine Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-multimedia-zine-workshop/) - For our next Blank Slate workshop on Thursday 30 July, we will explore the world of digital art. Led by artist Elle Godfree, we will look at the basics of Procreate and produce our own zines and posters by learning new digital art techniques and developing our own graphical identity. Our zines and posters will
- [Opening and In conversation with Elleanna Chapman and Tory Turk](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-elleanna-chapman-and-tory-turk/) - Join us at the gallery on Saturday 18 July at 4pm for a special opening celebration and an in-conversation with artist Elleanna Chapman and Tory Turk, marking the launch of the Railway Bridge Commission 2026. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from Chapman about her artistic practice and the ideas behind her new
- [Contemporary Elders: Mindful Mark-Making & Experimentation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-mindful-mark-making-experementation/) - Join artist Ella Johnston on Saturday 18 July, 10:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 3:30pm for an inclusive and immersive mark-making workshop that celebrates expressive drawing, creative play, and the joy of experimentation. Please note: We will meet on the beach, just out of the front of Saltwater Café in Chalkwell. 111 Chalkwell Esplanade,
- [Blank Slate: World Building](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-world-building/) - Exploring kitsch sculpture and world building with artist, Amber Merry for the next 13 to 16 year old Blank Slate workshop! Please note, this is for ages 13 to 16 years only. Join artist Amber Merry for a playful and imaginative Blank Slate workshop on Thursday 25 June 4:30pm to 6:30pm exploring kitsch sculpture, world-building, and personal
- [Contemporary Elders: June Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-june-workshop/) - What happens when a room full of people put on overalls, divide into painters and canvases, move to music, and start painting each other? We're about to find out. Join artist Avril Hockett for a gloriously unconventional Contemporary Elders on Saturday 20 June where movement, colour, performance and painting collide. Wearing protective overalls, you will
- [Children's Art Club: June to July](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-june-to-july/) - For the next block of Children’s Art Club, we are joined by Emma Gibbs de Oliveira, 17 June to 16 July - let's step into the world of illustration this summer! Over the five sessions we'll delve into what an illustration is, storytelling behind the image, the intention of lines and marks, how illustration is
- [Summer Opening: Rosie Ridgway](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/rosie-ridgway-phantom-power/) - To celebrate the opening of Rosie Ridgway’s exhibition on Saturday 20 June, Ridgway and Focal Point Gallery are hosting an all-day event featuring live music, artist-led workshops and ice cream, inviting audiences to explore and celebrate underground practices. Free and welcome to all, the line-up includes Ridgway’s long time co-conspirators and inspirations Dean Rodney Jr.
- [Blank Slate: Screenplay Writing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-screenplay-writing/) - Please note, this is for ages 13 to 16 years only. Join us on Thursday 28 May 4:30pm to 6:30pm with screenwriter Kat Rollinson in our next Blank Slate session! In this workshop we will look at the building blocks of screenwriting, as well as the tools used within the industry and tips for getting
- [Big Screen Summer Cinema 2026](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/big-screen-summer-cinema-2026/) - Join us at Elmer Square for our annual Big Screen Summer Cinema! This year’s programme has been selected in response to The Reading Agency annual summer reading challenge. A collaboration with Universal Music Group UK,Read to the Beat! will harness the universal appeal of music to tackle the decline in children’s reading enjoyment and inspire a
- [Contemporary Elders: Exhibitionist Grotesques](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-sheela-na-gigs/) - Join us for the next Contemporary Elders on Saturday 23 May where we are led by one of our own Contemporary Elders, artist Janet Phillips. Either 10:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 3:30pm In the workshop, we’ll have an opportunity to explore the term ‘Exhibitionist Grotesques’ and discuss the somewhat controversial forms that architects and historians have found within churches called
- [In Conversation: Lucía Pizzani and Helen Gordon](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-lucia-pizzani-and-helen-gordon/) - Join us at the gallery on Saturday 9 May at 3pm for this special in-conversation between artist Lucía Pizzani and Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time. This will be a great opportunity to gain insight into Pizzani’s artistic practice and her inspiration for her current exhibition, Faunal Succession. Faunal Succession is Pizzani’s first
- [Blank Slate: Silliness and Ceramics](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-ceramics/) - Please note, this is for ages 13 to 16 years only. Join us for a ceramics workshop led by artist Kat Outten where we will explore identity, silliness, colour and queerness! In this special session of Blank Slate, we will focus on playing with clay and thinking about the processes involved in making everyday objects.
- [Creative Open Day: Traces, Time, and Clay](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-5/) - Join us for the next Creative Open Day with artists, Lucía Pizzani and José García Oliva leading us in two activity throughout the day. The two workshops will run side by side throughout the afternoon, welcoming people of all ages to drop in, spend time making, and leave whenever they wish. These are open, informal
- [Contemporary Elders: Paper Craft Houses](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-make-your-house-a-house/) - Join us for the next Contemporary Elders session on Saturday 18 April with artist and puppet maker Claire Brooks. In this workshop we’ll be sculpting houses out of cardboard, paper, and found objects such as plastic trays and leaflets. We will explore craft techniques like folding and layering to create anything from a quaint cottage to a
- [Blank Slate: Tides of Voice](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-tides-of-voice/) - Please note this is for 13 to 16 years only. In this interactive session, led by artist and folksinger Luzmira Zerpa, you’ll discover the power of call-and-response singing, a musical tradition found in many cultures where voices answer and respond to one another. Together we’ll explore how sound can be inspired by the natural environment
- [Children's Art Club: April to May Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-april-to-may-workshops-2/) - For our next block of Children’s Art Club, we will be led by Natasha Davis, an artist, printmaker and qualified primary school teacher, who specialises in linocut and also loves to share the lino cutting process with people who have never tried it before. Please note, only for ages 7 to 12 years. Over four
- [Contemporary Elders: Loose and Lively](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-loose-and-lively/) - Join us for the next Contemporary Elders session on 21 March with artist David Watkins. In this workshop we’ll explore large-scale drawing and painting focused on ideas of connectivity and collaboration. Using Watkins’ own intuitive methods, we’ll begin by working instinctively with inks and tools, allowing forms to emerge naturally before refining them into unique
- [Lu Williams in conversation with Ellen Mara De Wachter](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/lu-williams-in-conversation-with-ellen-mara-de-wachter/) - Have you spotted Southend’s newest public artwork? Situated at the gateway to the High Street, 'Souvenirs & Suburbia' by Lu Williams takes the form of a large-scale fridge magnet and postcard, bringing together visual histories gathered from hundreds of Southend residents. Join us at the gallery on Saturday 7 March at 4pm for this special in-conversation
- [Things You Never Get Taught #16: Social Media and Understanding Your Audience](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-16-social-media-and-understanding-your-audience/) - Please note this event will be held at: Sababa, 21 Clifftown Rd, Southend-On-Sea, SS1 1AB This practical 3 hour workshop, led by Ella Sisso, is designed for creative practitioners who want to feel more confident and intentional about how they show up on social media. Together, we’ll explore who you’re trying to reach, what you
- [Exhibition Opening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-3/) - We are delighted to invite you to an opening event for Faunal Succession, a solo exhibition by Lucía Pizzani, which will take place on Saturday 21 March from 5pm to 8pm – everyone is welcome! Please RSVP here if you are attending. Through a series of new installations and in collaboration with artists Cecilia Bonilla, Jaime Gili, Javier Weyler, local community
- [Children's Art Club: March](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-2/) - Join us for our next block of Children’s Art Club where we will be exploring sculpture! We will be led by artist Hazel Sankey. In this project, we will explore the themes of home, roots, and identity through sculpture. Please note, only for ages 7 to 12 years. Using chicken wire, Mod Roc, and mixed media materials, each participant will create an individual branch that represents their own ideas, memories, and
- [Things you never get taught #15: How to price your artwork](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-15-how-to-price-your-artwork/) - After a period of consultation with our communities of artists and creative practitioners, Things you never get taught is back with a session on How to price your artwork with Ema O’Donovan, founder and director of Xxjira Hii, a contemporary art gallery based in Deptford. O’Donovan will take the participants through what ‘value’ means in
- [Creative Open Day: Exhibition Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-exhibition-making/) - Our next Creative Open Day sees us exploring curation of the current exhibition - this is an opportunity to have your say! This is a free drop-in workshop. Feel welcome to come for 20 minutes or the full day! Join us for the next Creative Open Day on Saturday 21 February 11am to 3pm. We
- [Blank Slate: Southend Sails](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-southend-sails/) - For ages 13 to 16 years only. You’re invited to take part in a hands-on embroidery session for Southend Sails — a large public artwork that will be installed on Southend High Street. In this session, you’ll work with artist Katrin Mountain to create stitched designs on reclaimed sail cloth. We’re focusing specifically on embroidery — adding words, symbols,
- [Contemporary Elders: Sails](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-sails/) - Join us for our next Contemporary Elders workshop focused on embroidery as part of an exciting, large-scale project, Southend Sails, a new community-made artwork launching in Southend High Street this spring. We'll be working with artist Emma Gibbs de Oliveira to stitch messages, patterns and imagery into reclaimed sailcloth. The focus is on simple embroidery
- [Contemporary Elders: Guidelines of Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-5/) - Join us for the first session of 2026 on Saturday 24 January, inspired by the newness of the year, we will be exploring how and why we make creatively. Artist Shaun C. Badham invites Contemporary Elders to create their own Communal Guidelines for Making, a set of key points which act as a personal set of prompts for creation and curation. The session
- [Launch: Souvenirs & Suburbia](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/souvenirs-suburbia-2/) - Focal Point Gallery and Creative Estuary are delighted to invite you to celebrate a major new public artwork, Souvenirs & Suburbia by Lu Williams, welcoming visitors and residents to one of the UK’s leading visitor destinations, Southend-on-Sea. Souvenirs & Suburbia takes the form of a large-scale fridge magnet and postcard, referencing the tourist attractions, cultural
- [Always Coming Home: Exhibition Opening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-2/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for Always Coming Home, a solo exhibition by transmedia artist and activist Poulomi Basu, which will take place on Saturday 27 September from 6pm to 8pm. Everyone is welcome! Always Coming Home is an immersive multi-room installation of new work that combines moving image, photography,
- [S for Southend 2026: Exhibition Opening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/s-for-southend-2026-exhibition-opening/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for our community exhibition, S for Southend 2026, on Saturday 17 January from 1pm to 5pm. Everyone is welcome! S for Southend marks its fifth anniversary with a vibrant and diverse collection of works drawn from across the breadth of Focal Point Gallery’s Learning
- [Blank Slate: Metalsmithing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-metalsmithing/) - Please note, this is for ages 13 to 16 years only. Join us for the next Blank Slate, where we are exploring some of the basic techniques behind jewellery making led by artist, Liz Casey. Thinking about ideas around community, friendship and what that means to us as a starting point to making our own metal
- [Children's Art Club: January to February](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-january-to-february/) - For ages 7 to 12 years old. Join us the first Children's Art Club of 2026! This four-week creative block, led by artist Elle Godfree, sees young makers exploring photography, collage, digital art, and stop-motion animation inspired by the bold visual language of music, punk, and rave-scene posters. Across the sessions, we will capture our
- [Winter Closure](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/winter-closure-2/) - Seasonal Closure ❄️ We will be closing at 2pm on Wednesday 24 December and will reopen on Friday 2 January 2026 for the final two days of Always Coming Home by Poulomi Basu. Thank you for your support and see you in 2026!
- [Contemporary Elders: Roast and Reads](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-roast-and-reads/) - Please note: This session will take place at The Old Waterworks, North Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7AB. The last Contemporary Elders of the year sees us working with Jacqson Diego Story Emporium over our annual Christmas dinner – this time, a proper roast! Hosted at The Old Waterworks, this special workshop-slash-dinner has us looking at stories.
- [Exhibition Opening: In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-in-other-worlds-acts-of-translation/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation' an exhibition developed in collaboration with the Roberts Institute of Art. This exhibition brings together over 25 works, some of which have never been shown in a public gallery before, from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, one of the
- [Exhibition Opening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'The Spin Off', Rafał Zajko's first institutional solo exhibition, which will take place on Saturday 22 March from 5pm to 8pm. Everyone is welcome! ‘The Spin Off’ is a theatrical installation that reflects on memory, repetition, reappearance, cyclicality, preservation and pickling, following Zajko’s
- [Exhibition Opening: 'And these deceitful waters', Adham Faramawy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-and-these-deceitful-waters-adham-faramawy/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for the exhibition 'And these deceitful waters', Adham Faramawy which will take place on Saturday 28th September from 6pm–8pm. Everyone is welcome! The exhibition features two recent moving image pieces and a work on the Big Screen Southend. Recent works have delved into the
- [Children's Art Club: November to December](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-november-to-december-2/) - We’re thrilled to announce the next season of Children’s Art Club at Focal Point Gallery, where young artists aged 7 to 12 are invited to unlock their creativity, develop new skills, and make amazing artwork in a fun, supportive environment. This term, we’ll be working with the brilliant artist Rachel Dingle who will be exploring our creativity with us
- [Blank Slate: Pop & Politics](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-pop-politics/) - For ages 13 to 16 years only. Join artist Elleanna Chapman for the next Blank Slate session! In this workshop, we will be exploring collage as a way to reclaim and reshape the stories around us. Drawing on their own experiences of navigating the art world from a working-class background, Elleanna will introduce their practice
- [Contemporary Elders: Joyful Links](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-joyful-links/) - Join us on Saturday 22 November for Joyful Links, the next Contemporary Elders workshop with Comfy Club Collective. They will lead a reflective drawing workshop inviting participants to joyfully capture happy life moments, personal comforts, and favourite items on strips of paper. These will then be linked together to form a collaborative paper chain. You can
- [Souvenirs & Suburbia](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/souvenirs-suburbia/) - Focal Point Gallery and Creative Estuary are delighted to invite you to celebrate a major new public artwork, Souvenirs & Suburbia by Lu Williams, welcoming visitors and residents to one of the UK’s leading visitor destinations, Southend-on-Sea. Souvenirs & Suburbia takes the form of a large-scale fridge magnet and postcard, referencing the tourist attractions, cultural icons,
- [Contemporary Elders: Shoal Building](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-shoal-building/) - Join us for the next Contemporary Elders session, on Saturday 18 October, with local artist Sue Lynas, to create a vibrant shoal of Japanese-inspired flying carp-shaped streamers, drawing on Koinobori, a traditional Japanese art form. Using a range of recycled materials, we will be working to build a large-scale artwork that takes up space and joins together individual
- [Creative Open Day: Video Diaries](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-video-diaries/) - Come and join us for an exciting new Creative Open Day with local artist and filmmaker George Morgan! ‘Video diaries’ is an experimental videomaking workshop that provides a safe space for you to meditate/imagine/remember and create using resources supplied for you to make personal and poetic video diaries/ films about your past, present and future.
- [Closed for Installation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/closed-for-installation-4/) - We are now closed as we prepare 'Always Coming Home' by Poulomi Basu. Opening on Saturday 27 September from 6pm to 8pm. 'Always Coming Home' is an immersive multi-room installation of new work that combines moving image, photography, sculpture and sound to create an interactive space where different realities and speculative futures simultaneously exist, exploring
- [Contemporary Elders: Curating Together](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-curating-together/) - Join curator Gisselle Girón Casas, for the next Contemporary Elders on Saturday 20 September 10:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 3:30pm for an introduction into the fundamentals of curating! We will explore how the way artworks are shown changes how we understand, feel, and connect with them. Along the way, we’ll also talk about what curators do,
- [Children's Art Club: September to October](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-september-to-october/) - For ages 7 to 12 years. We’re thrilled to announce the next season of Children’s Art Club at Focal Point Gallery, where young artists aged 7 to 12 are invited to unlock their creativity, develop new skills, and make amazing artwork in a fun, supportive environment. This term, we’ll be working with the brilliant artist Sylak Ravenspine, who
- [Blank Slate: Beat Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-beat-making/) - For 13 to 16 year olds In this Blank Slate session, join us and build your own electronic beat from scratch! In this two-hour workshop, you’ll record and shape your own loops and samples, then turn them into a short unique track. No experience needed, just curiosity, a love of sound and music and a
- [Creative Break Time](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-break-time/) - We’re one of the four projects awarded Freelands Foundation funding as part of their Autumn 2023 grant. Focal Point Gallery, Metal, and The Other MA (TOMA) have collaborated to establish our brand-new programme, Creative Break Time! This three-year project allows teachers to step away from rigid planning schedules and collaborate with artists and other creatives in Southend, fostering
- [Blank Slate - Photography and Storytelling](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-photography-and-storytelling/) - This month Blank Slate will explore storytelling through the medium of portrait photography with Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, taking place on Friday 29 August. The first session introduces the fundamentals of portrait photography, including camera functions, lighting, and analogue cameras. Participants will then practice photographing each other in a temporary studio set up in the gallery,
- [Focal Point Gallery x City Jam: Street Art Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/focal-point-gallery-x-city-jam-street-art-cube/) - As part of the Southend City Jam 2025 celebrations, Focal Point Gallery invites you to join two days of unique, free street art workshops led by acclaimed artists Peals and Rask. Saturday 30 August – Street Art on the Cube with Peals This year, we’re focusing in on one collaborative piece: the street art cube,
- [Contemporary Elders: Worldbuilding with Sound](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elder-worldbuilding-with-sound/) - Join artist Harriet Pittard for the next Contemporary Elders on Saturday 23 August 10:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 3:30pm to explore the art of worldbuilding — through sound! From fantastical landscapes to future societies, worldbuilding can help us ask bold questions about how we live, what we value, and what we hope for. We
- [Creative Open Day: Princess Dinubolu's Journey](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-4/) - Please ensure you read the workshop structure thoroughly. All ages and abilities welcomed. Find out more and book your tickets on our Eventbrite! Join us for a new and exciting Creative Open Day – Saturday 26 July! We're teaming up with artists, Teddy Godwin and Anne Odeke, for a hands-on workshop that explores Southend’s rich and layered history through sound
- [Blank Slate - Life Drawing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-life-drawing/) - For ages 13–16 only We’re excited to welcome artist Michelle Goldman to lead the next Blank Slate workshop: a dynamic, hands-on life drawing session designed specifically for young people aged 13 to 16. In this workshop, participants will explore the fundamentals of drawing the human form, focusing on shape, negative space, and the power of
- [In Conversation: Bryony Gillard and Dr. Kirsten Cooke](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-bryony-gillard-and-dr-kirsten-cooke/) - Please note this is an online event. Join artist and researcher Bryony Gillard in conversation with curator and academic Dr. Kirsten Cooke as they delve into My Wits or Salts, Gillard’s episodic moving image work that explores the metabolic and infrastructural entanglements of wastewater. This discussion will unravel the work’s complex relationships to resistance, flow,
- [Big Screen Summer Cinema](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/big-screen-summer-cinema-2/) - Join us at Elmer Square for our annual Big Screen Summer Cinema! This year’s programme has been selected in response to The Reading Agency annual summer reading challenge. ‘Story Garden’ will inspire children to tap into a world of imagination through reading, exploring the magical connection between storytelling and nature. The outdoor screenings take place on
- [Blank Slate: Who Cares? The Old Waterworks Visit](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-who-cares-the-old-waterworks-visit/) - Please note this is for ages 13 to 16 only. Politics, the environment, our society — would they all be better if we cared for and about them a little more? What is care?Who does the caring?What do we care about?And what on earth does art have to do with any of this? Join us
- [Closed for Installation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/closed-for-installation-3/)
- [Children's Art Club: June to July Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-june-to-july-workshops-2/) - This block at Children’s Art Club, we’re excited to welcome artist Connor Turansky for a hands-on workshop that blends creativity with technology. Using sensors and Micro:bits, we will learn how to turn movement, speech, light and sound into interactive artworks. Working in pairs or small groups, they’ll rotate roles—such as coder and circuit builder—each week,
- [Contemporary Elders: Bookmaking](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-bookmaking/) - In this month’s session on Saturday 21 June, participants will review and work with their printed portraits, arranged in a zine layout. Some written pieces will be included alongside the images. The session concludes with an introduction to the Pamphlet Stitch Bookbinding technique, allowing participants to assemble their own handmade photo album using their portraits
- [Performance: Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO for Choral Octet by Haroon Mirza](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/performance-adam-eve-others-a-ufo-and-a-large-language-model-by-haroon-mirza/) - Join us at Clifftown Theatre in Southend-on-Sea on 5 July at 4pm for a performance of Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO for Choral Octet (2025), a newly commissioned audio installation and live performance by Haroon Mirza on the occasion of In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation, a group exhibition at Focal Point Gallery. A
- [Final Performance: Denim by Rafał Zajko](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/final-performance-denim-by-rafal-zajko/) - Join us on Saturday 7 June at 4pm for Denim, a performance by Rafał Zajko, Contemporary Elders (Penny Benge, Selena Chandler, Janet Phillips, Jane Ponton, Kim Saunders, Jane Sealy, Gwen Simpson, Sue Stubbs, Christine Turner, Barbara Wells) and Agnieszka Szczotka. This performance will mark the last chance to see Rafał Zajko’s first institutional solo exhibition
- [Blank Slate - Fashion Design](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-fashion-design/) - We’re thrilled to announce that the next Blank Slate session on Friday 30th May 4:30pm to 6:30pm will be led by artist, Ojoma Idegwu, who will guide us through the much-requested topic of fashion design! Join us for an hands-on workshop where you’ll have the chance to unleash your creativity, experiment with design ideas, and
- [Contemporary Elders - Portrait Photography and Storytelling](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-photography/) - Contemporary Elders this month will kick off the first stage of a two-part workshop, led by Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, taking place Saturday 24 May. This two-part workshop explores portrait photography, storytelling, and bookmaking. Participants will learn technical skills, engage in creative exercises, and produce a personal photo book. The first session introduces the fundamentals of
- [Children's Art Club - April to May Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-april-to-may-workshops/) - For ages 7 to 12 years only. We are delighted to be joined by artist Iris Dina Gunnarsdóttir for a fun and creative Children's Art Club block where we will be exploring clay, colour, and collaboration. Across three weeks, children will design and paint their own clay tiles, then experiment with curating and re-arranging them
- [In Conversation: Rafał Zajko and Jonathan Baldock](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-rafal-zajko-and-jonathan-baldock/) - Join us on 17 May at 5pm for a conversation between artists Rafał Zajko and Jonathan Baldock, as they explore the themes, materials, and processes behind Zajko’s solo exhibition The Spin Off here at Focal Point Gallery. Working with a wide range of processes and materials, from ceramics and prosthetics to frescos, Rafał Zajko’s predominantly
- [Contemporary Elders - Illustration](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporaryelders/) - Join us on Saturday 19 April for the next Contemporary Elders with illustrator Craig Hallums. Craig's intricate drawing style is inspired by graphic design, technical illustration and the narrative art of comics. Craig will be walking you through some of the steps to recreate his signature graphic style. No prior experience needed! Reserve your place today by calling 01702 534108,
- [Blank Slate - Miniatures](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-miniatures/) - In this workshop we’ll be exploring themes of identity by using different materials to make bedroom scenes. Join Daisy Blower as they guide you through making your own miniature bed at a 1/25 scale. We’ll be sculpting a miniature representation of our safe havens. The nests we build for ourselves. The places we feel truly
- [Creative Open Day - Reimagining Surveillance with DIY Data Tools](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-reimagining-surveillance-with-diy-data-tools/) - Running 11am to 3pm, this is drop in session. Stay for as long or as little time as you like. For all ages. Ever feel like you're being watched? From facial recognition vans on the high street to algorithms on your smart devices, we are surveyed more and more. Our behaviours, bodies, habits, and emotions are
- [Contemporary Elders - 3D Printing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-3d-printing/) - Join visual artist and educator Connor Turansky for a hands-on introduction to 3D printing. Using intuitive iPad apps, you'll sculpt a digital creation that will be transformed into a physical 3D-printed object. Connor will guide you through the process from start to finish, with time to explore example pieces, experiment with recycled materials, and discuss
- [Things You Never Get Taught #14 Upskilling Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-13-upskilling-day/) - Back for the third year, Show Up! Southend brings you a series of workshops to help you build and grow your business! Working with Focal Point Gallery, we are organising the following sessions on Saturday 7th October that promises to give you the skills and tricks to take your freelance adventure to the next level.
- [Blank Slate - Ink Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate/) - Join eco artist and ink maker Sylak Ravenspine for an immersive workshop exploring the connection between the geology of Essex and ink making at Blank Slate, Friday 28 March 4:30pm to 6:30pm. Learn how complex animal and plant relationships play a vital role in the process. Craft rudimentary drawing materials from found objects and recycled waste, and
- [Children's Art Club - March](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-march/) - Join us for a four-week creative journey exploring the rich history and evolving significance of mandalas, inspired by the ideas in Rafal Zajko’s exhibition on foreverism—the concept of things being reused, remade, and adapted for new audiences and purposes over time. Led by artist and researcher Steve Lawes, these hands-on workshops will take participants through
- [Blank Slate - Special Effects Makeup and Prosthetics](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-special-effects-makeup-and-prosthetics/) - Open to ages 13 to 18 years and always welcoming new faces! This month we will be exploring special effects makeup and prosthetics, working with Production Hair & Makeup Artist, Amy Slade to recreate casualty special effects makeup that are widely used in education and film to imitate injuries. We will be working on our
- [Contemporary Elders - Bin Day of the Dead](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-animation-2/) - What if all the planet-polluting rubbish we threw away came back to haunt us…? Join us for Contemporary Elders, Saturday 15 February with artist, Kate Sullivan where we will be making bringing our rubbish back to life! Following on from Kate Sullivan's previous workshop where we breathed life into everyday inanimate objects... We will be
- [Contemporary Elders](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-4/) - Join us in the New Year for Contemporary Elders on Saturday 18 January! Whether you’re an experienced artist or just looking to explore a new creative outlet, this is your opportunity to experience a unique and inspiring artistic journey! Reserve your spot today by calling 01702 534108, emailing us at focalpointgallery@southend.gov.uk, or visiting the gallery to chat
- [Children's Art Club - January to February 2025](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-january-to-february-2025/) - To welcome in the new year, our first block of 2025’s Children’s Art Club, runs Wednesday 15 January to Wednesday 5 February 4:30pm to 6pm with local artist, Ashleigh Cripps. We will be taking a deep dive into the world of illustration with Ashleigh Cripps (aka AshleighIllustrates) to create our own story zine! Ashleigh will
- [Creative Open Day - Miniature Lives](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-miniature-lives/) - Ever wondered what your dream space would look like, scaled down to a charming, whimsical miniature? Join us for a FREE, hands-on Creative Open Day led by artist Grace Harriet Price, ‘Miniature Lives’ . Together, we’ll design and build a large dollhouse that celebrates the comforts, joys, and quirks that make us feel truly at
- [Blank Slate - Photon Smashers](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-photon-smashers/) - Open to ages 13 to 18 years and always welcoming new faces! Get hands on with artist, Frazer Merrick, in his workshop working with his artworks, 'Photon Smasher'. These microphones can turn bike lights into thumping drum beats or light up toys into futuristic synthesisers, and we have the opportunity to explore what is possible
- [Life Class, In Conversation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/life-class-in-conversation/) - Open to anyone ages 18 and over. Why not try something new in the new year? Focal Point Gallery hosts the first of our new adult workshops, where artists Cristian Quiteros Soto and Barry Sykes will take turns to pose for you as life models in this special online life drawing class, whilst they simultaneously
- [S for Southend Opening Event](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/s-for-southend-opening-event-2/) - We’re thrilled to announce 'S for Southend', a celebration of creativity that shines a spotlight on the talent and imagination of our South East Essex community, opening Saturday 18 January 2025! Everyone is welcome! This dynamic exhibition is set to be an immersive journey, showcasing an incredible array of artworks created by local artists and
- [Winter Closure](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/winter-closure/) - Seasonal Closure ❄️ We will be closed from Wednesday 25 December and will reopen on Thursday 2 January for the final three days of 'And these deceitful waters' by Adham Faramawy. See you in 2025!
- [Cancelled: An Evening of Film and Performance: Adam Moore and Leila Gamaz, Q&A with Adham Faramawy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/an-evening-of-film-and-performance-adam-moore-and-leila-gamaz-qa-with-adham-faramawy/) - Due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to make the difficult decision to cancel the Evening of Film and Performance event due to take place on 7 Dececember. We will be in touch directly with ticket holders to issue refunds. We hope you are still able to join us during the final weeks of Faramawy's
- [Contemporary Elders with Trigger Bliss and Lunch!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-with-trigger-bliss/) - Join Focal Point Gallery for our special Christmas Contemporary Elders session on Saturday 14th December! This workshop will include a one-of-a-kind session led by artist Trigger Bliss, as a part of her project ‘Generelation’. Come and be part of the workshop where oral history is celebrated. In the workshop we will explore and record memories and
- [TOPS by Ames Pennington Screening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/tops-by-ames-pennington-screening/) - Join Focal Point Gallery for the screening of Ames Pennington's TOPS, exploring the question that defines trans masc experience in the UK today: “What TOP did you wanna wear after TOP surgery?” In this profound and intimate film, Ames meets four unique individuals: a powerlifter and gay-games Olympian hopeful, a housing-officer-slash-actor, an Essex filmmaker, and an
- [Closed](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/closed/) - Unfortunately the gallery will be closed Saturday 9 November due to unforeseen circumstances, we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
- [Contemporary Elders - Animation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-animation/) - Join us for Contemporary Elders, Saturday 23 November with artist, Kate Sullivan where we will be making the inanimate, animate with animation! Working in small groups, you’ll learn how to make a short animation – bringing everyday objects to life! Along the way Animator Kate Sullivan will share some tricks of the trade – and
- [Blank Slate - Theblokouse Visit](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-theblokouse-visit/) - Join us for the next Blank Slate session on Friday, 29th November from 4.30 PM to 6.30 PM, as we embark on our first outing together! We will visit the local artist studios at theblokhouse, where we’ll tour the artists' studio spaces and the brand new workshop studio and participate in a workshop led by
- [Children's Art Club - November to December](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-november-to-december/) - Join Focal Point Gallery for the next block of Children’s Art Club with local artist, Hayley Summers where we will be exploring clay! For ages 7 to 12 years and all equipment provided. Drawing inspiration from Adham Faramawy's work, you will craft your own interpretation of an afternoon tea experience. Delve into the art of
- [Made from this Land - Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/made-from-this-land-launch/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'Made from this Land' by Emma Edmondson, which will take place on Sunday 20th October, 2pm–4pm. Meet at Southchurch Park East for a walk around the brickfields with the artist and an opening speech from Councillor Dent. Everyone is welcome! 'Made from this Land'
- [Creative Open Day - Shared Threads](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-november/) - How can we creatively take action in gentle and thoughtful ways? Join artist Edi McGurk on Saturday 2nd November from 11am to 3pm for our next FREE Creative Open Day, 'Shared Threads.' This event is open to all ages and requires no prior experience. We will be exploring the role of textiles in political art
- [Contemporary Elders - One Hour Residency](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-one-hour-residency/) - We’re excited to invite you to the next Contemporary Elders session on Saturday 19th October, from 10.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 3.30pm. Led by artist Alfie Winters, this session will feature a One Hour Residency, which offers a fresh and unconventional twist on the traditional artist residency. Using familiar, accessible tools and working within
- [Blank Slate - Pottery with Hayley Summers!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-pottery/) - Focal Point Gallery is inviting you to join us on Friday 25th October from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, with artist Hayley Summers, where we will be creating ceramic pots! This workshop offers a welcoming, slow-paced space to explore pottery techniques and unleash your creativity. About Blank Slate Focal Point Gallery is delighted to announce the
- [Contemporary Elders](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-3/) - Join us for next month’s Contemporary Elders session on Saturday 18th May! With two sessions open for booking – 10.30am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm to 3.30pm with Sylak Ravenspine. Come explore the fascinating practice of ‘atramentum’: ink-making using naturally occurring iron salts and tree tannins foraged from the local area. In this two-hour practical workshop,
- [Contemporary Elders - Foraging](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-foraging/) - Join Focal Point Gallery's Contemporary Elders group on Saturday 22nd June for our latest workshop, where we will be foraging in Two Tree Island, Leigh-on-Sea! Foraging is a great way for us to reconnect with the communities of flora and fungi in our local landscape that we may usually pass by. Our walk will begin
- [Contemporary Elders - Casting Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-casting-workshop/) - Join us on Saturday 24th August for the upcoming Contemporary Elders session, led by artist Hazel Sankey in a plaster casting workshop! We will create unique casts of our own hands and learn the entire casting process, with the chance to apply decoupage on top of our work at the end. To join, please email
- [Contemporary Elders - Natural Dyeing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-21st-september/) - Join us Saturday 21 September 10:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 3:30pm with local organisation, Trustlinks Ecodays! They will be leading in a natural dyeing workshop using plants to dye fabric and yarn. It is a fascinating craft with a close connection to the natural world. You will learn about preparing the fabric and some of
- [Blank Slate - September Session](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/blank-slate-september-session/) - Join us for our first ever Blank Slate workshop! Join us with artist, Iris Dina Gunnarsdottir and dive into the world of natural tie-dye as we explore plant-based dyes. Craft unique patterns with colours derived from nature itself—each creation is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece thanks to the unpredictability of plant dyes. We'll supply everything you need,
- [Children's Art Club - September to October Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-september-to-october-workshops-2/) - Join us at Focal Point Gallery for our latest Children's Art Club! Over the next six weeks, we will be getting creative, using inspiration from artist Adham Faramawy's upcoming exhibition, ‘And these deceitful waters’. We're thrilled to bring you a special workshop called "Fluidity," led by fashion designer Ojoma Idegwu. In these workshops, we'll learn
- [Creative Open Day - Sweeping Performances: The Art of Domestic Chores](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/sweeping-performances-the-art-of-domestic-chores/) - Our next Creative Open Day! We are thrilled to invite you to “Sweeping Performances: The Art of Domestic Chores,” a playful workshop led by artist Kelly O’Brien open to all ages and abilities. Dive into the performance of cleaning work, domestic labour, and hidden gestures, to discover a fresh perspective on these often-overlooked aspects of
- [Big Screen Summer Cinema](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/big-screen-summer-cinema/) - Join us at Elmer Square for our annual Big Screen Summer Cinema! This year’s programme has been selected in response to Southend Libraries annual summer reading challenge ‘Marvellous Makers’, aiming to fire up children’s imaginations and unleash storytelling and creativity through the power of reading. The outdoor screenings take place on the first four Saturdays
- [Contemporary Elders - Nature of Essex Lino Cutting Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-nature-of-essex-lino-cutting-workshop/) - Come and join us for Contemporary Elders on Saturday 20 July for our workshop, 'The Nature of Essex'. During the workshop, artist Mary Lodge will guide us in creating our own lino cuttings and prints using professional tools and equipment that will all be provided in the workshop. We will be drawing our inspiration from
- [Exhibition Opening:](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-after-the-end-of-history-british-working-class-photography-1989-2024/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for the exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024, which will take place on Saturday 29th June from 6pm–8pm. Everyone is welcome! 'After the End of History' will offer a counterintuitive picture of working-class life today, from Khadija Saye’s evocative self-portraits
- [Closed for Installation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/9824-2/)
- [Panel Discussion: Emma Frankland, Maz Murray and Shola von Reinhold](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/panel-discussion-emma-frankland-maz-murray-and-shola-von-reinhold/) - As we enter the final weeks of the exhibition Principal Boy by Maz Murray, we are delighted to announce that we are hosting a closing event on Thursday 13 June from 6.30pm! There will be an opportunity to see the show followed by a panel discussion between Maz Murray, performer, writer and artist Emma Frankland,
- [Children's Art Club - June to July Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-june-to-july-workshops/) - Aged 7 - 12? Join us at Focal Point Gallery for our next block of Children's Art Club, led by Casting Director, Film Publicist and Producer Jo Farrugia (How to Build a Girl, Blue Jean, The Crown) who will be leading a 6 week film making art course relating to the themes in the
- [Creative Open Day - 'Enough with the Flamboyance' Costume Design Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-1st-june/) - Join us at Focal Point Gallery on Saturday, Saturday 1st June, for our latest Creative Open Day, where we will explore the ideas and methods of art displayed in our current exhibition with artist Ojoma Idegwu. 'Enough with the flamboyance' workshop is inspired by Maz Murray's 'Principal Boy' exhibition at Focal Point Gallery in Southend
- [Contemporary Elders: Clay Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-clay-workshop-2/) - We are back in the New Year with artist Hayley Summers running a Contemporary Elders session on Saturday 20th January, 10.30am to 12.30pm. This workshop will explore the sights and shapes of Southend, using paper stencils and masks with coloured decorating slips with simple press mould clay forms; not one to be missed! Please book
- [Contemporary Elders - Life Drawing Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-life-drawing-workshop/) - Join us in February for our upcoming Contemporary Elders workshop with local artist Andy Downes! During the workshop, you'll have the opportunity to create life drawings of clothed models with a fun and creative twist. Downes will guide you through a series of exercises, where you'll learn how to add vibrant touches and flares to
- [Contemporary Elders: Hobby Aprons](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-hobby-aprons/) - Join us on Saturday 23rd March for our next session of Contemporary Elders! Artist, Nicole Morris will be helping us explore all the wonderful hobbies, interests and loves that make us all individual. We'll create an apron specifically tailored to showcase our interests, whether that be gardening, crocheting, painting, writing, or building. Using fabric paints,
- [Contemporary Elders - Song Writing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-2/) - Have you ever written lyrics? Or wanted to write a song? Join songwriter M G Boulter for a songwriting workshop where you will try a number of fun and engaging exercises to create poems and lyrics using different techniques used by songwriters to kick start their inspiration. You’ll be writing songs within minutes! You don’t
- [Frame of Mind - Animating Education Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/frame-of-mind-animating-education-workshops/) - For ages 11 to 16 years. We at Focal Point Gallery are delighted to partner with SAVS and Animating Education to bring this free course to young people in Southend! Over 6 weeks we will be making a short animated film, taking ‘mental health’ as our starting point for the narrative. Learn stop-motion animation and
- [Children’s Art Club - April to May Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club/) - Aged 7 to 12 years? Join us with Hannah Brailsford in our Children's Art Club as we create storytelling puppets, taking inspiration from Maz Murray's exhibition at Focal Point Gallery. From cardboard Marquette's to shadow puppets, we will be investigating every variety of puppetry. Discover how to write completely unique stories for this new venture! Children’s
- [Easter break closure](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/easter-break-closure/) - We will be closed for an Easter break from 29 March - 2 April. We look forward to welcoming you back to the Gallery to explore Maz Murray's first solo exhibition Principal Boy.
- [Have a Go! Crochet Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/have-a-go-crochet-workshop/) - Please note: there's no need to be with us for the full time, come and go as you please! Come along to Focal Point Gallery for our Crochet Workshop! Learn the basics or develop your skill with us on 2nd March, 11am to 2pm. At this workshop Laura Mills, with a side helping of baked
- [Exhibition Opening: 'Principal Boy', Maz Murray](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-principal-boy-maz-murray/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for the exhibition Principal Boy by Maz Murray, which will take place on Saturday 23rd March from 6pm–8pm. Everyone is welcome! In their first solo institutional exhibition Murray will include newly commissioned and recent sets, props and moving image works reflecting on oral histories of
- [Character Design Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/character-design-workshop/) - Join us as part of Southend Libraries Anime and Manga Week for this FREE workshop! To book your free tickets, please go to Eventbrite page. Focal Point Gallery is delivering a workshop for ages 10 to 16 years old with animator, Kate Sullivan, on exploring character design! Learn fun simple tricks, get help
- [Children's Art Club - February to March Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-february-to-march-workshops/) - For ages 7 to 12 years old. Join us for the next block of Children's Art Club at Focal Point Gallery with artist and animator, (back by strong demand!) Kate Sullivan. We will be exploring and creating animations starting from designing your character and background, through to animations with sound effects. Along the way, Kate
- [Creative Open Day February 2024](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-february-2024/) - Join us on Saturday 24th February for a day of Lino printing, led by local artist Mary Lodge. Mary Lodge is a local artist who works across various mediums, however a key part of her practice is printmaking, specifically lino-cut prints. Capturing cultural institutions in South-East Essex and beyond, Mary’s prints range in subject but
- [Closed for Installation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/closed-for-installation-2/) - Please note Focal Point Gallery is closed to the public for the installation of 'S for Southend 2024' from 9th January to 19th January. We apologise for any inconvenience. Please join us for the opening on Saturday 20th January 11am to 5pm! Open to all.
- [Children's Art Club - January to February 2024](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-january-to-february-2024/) - Join us for the Children's Art Club's new year's block from 17th January to 7th February. This block will be led by artist Sue Lynas. To celebrate the start of the Chinese Year of the Dragon, we'll be working together to create our own sculptural masterpieces. With the help of local artist Sue Lynas, you'll
- [S for Southend Opening Event](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/s-for-southend-opening-event/) - 'Come along to Focal Point Gallery for the opening of 'S for Southend' to celebrate all the wealth of creativity in our little corner of Essex! With works from individuals taking part in our learning programme and with partner organisations; we are proud of the people we get to engage with, be inspired by and
- [Newlyn/Southend Postcard Project](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/newlyn-southend-postcard-project/) - THE BRIEF Use art as a tool to comment or reflect on the question: What does climate change mean for coastal communities? Year 10 to Year 13 Art & Design students from Cornwall and Southend-on-Sea are invited to make a 2D response on 148 x 210 mm, 130 gsm+ cartridge paper / card, in
- [Focal Point Gallery Seasonal Sale! 25% Off Everything!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/focal-point-gallery-seasonal-sale-25-off-everything/) - We are delighted to launch our 2023 seasonal sale and are offering 25% off ALL items in our online shop and in person at the gallery from 1st – 14th December 2023. Please visit our online shop or the gallery in person to take advantage of this fantastic offer and purchase one of our special
- [Contemporary Elders Christmas Social](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-christmas-social/) - Join us for a festive activity and celebration on Saturday 16th December, 10.30am to 12.30pm for our last Contemporary Elders of this year! We will reflect together on the activities that we have achieved together and discuss what you would like to see in our Contemporary Elders 2024 programme! We will provide some festive food
- [Open Call: Big Screen Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/open-call-big-screen-southend/) - Focal Point Gallery has an exciting opportunity for UK-based artists or collectives working in film and video to take part in the future programme of the Big Screen Southend! We are looking to screen the work of seven artists during 2024, one of which will be a newly commissioned moving image artwork. Apply by Monday
- [Children's Art Club - November to December Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-november-to-december-workshops/) - For ages 7 to 11 years old. Artist/Historical Researcher Steve Lawes will lead sessions which take a look at Stone-Age life and art by exploring the fantastical story of Doggerland - a massive area of land connecting the east and south of Britain with continental Europe which became submerged around 8000 years ago after a
- [Environmental Justice Questions Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/environmental-justice-questions-workshops/) - Thursday 23rd November, 6pm to 8pm at Focal Point Gallery - To book on the workshop please follow the link. Harun Morrison has invited a range of people including activists, writers, artworkers, theorists, architects, chefs, natural historians and horticulturalists to propose a question relating to environmental justice that can stimulate conversation. Take part in the
- [Contemporary Elders - Screen Printing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-screen-printing/) - A festive screen printing workshop! Come along to Focal Point Gallery and give screen printing a go! With lead artist, Charlotte Hamilton, create your own designs using pre-made festive elements to print a selection of prints, cards and tags in this relaxed and interactive workshop. About the Artist: Charlotte Hamilton is a multidisciplinary artist and
- [Contemporary Elders - Puppet Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-puppet-making/) - Led by local artist, Claire Brooks, we are very excited to say we will be making and crafting our very own puppets using recycled materials and our creativity. Claire will teach us how to craft and shape our own puppet then teach us the basics of puppet operation to bring these objects to life! No
- [Contemporary Elders - Basket Weaving](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-basket-weaving/) - Artist-Basketmaker, Selena Chandler, makes both traditional and contemporary basketry inspired by Essex histories and landscapes. In this Contemporary Elders session, you will work with plant materials - phormium and cordyline - gathered locally. You will prepare the materials for weaving and then using the basketry technique of plaiting over a mould. Come away from the
- [Contemporary Elders - Storm Reflections](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-storm-reflections/) - Kelly Buckley will lead two digital audio-visual workshops titled ‘Storm Reflections’ for Focal Point Gallery’s Contemporary Elders as part of Digifest 2023 at Twenty One. 10.30am to 12.30pm - First Session 12.30pm to 1.30pm - Lunch (Pizza is provided!) 1.30pm to 3.30pm - Second Session These workshops will focus on the participants’ memories or thoughts
- [Digifest 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-2023/) - Digifest is back for 2023 for a week of exploring, imagining, and creating with the digital arts. With sound, light and technology building and growing within the arts, we have the means to stretch our creativity even further. With workshops open to all ages, abilities and backgrounds, there is something for everyone to get their
- [Big Green Creative Open Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/big-green-creative-open-day/) - This special Creative Open Day will see us celebrating all things eco and green! With activities and workshops that gather together the community and celebrate our city with tips, tricks and tools to connect you with nature and see things in a different light. To book your FREE ticket, please visit our Eventbrite - or
- [Closed for Installation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/closed-for-installation/)
- [Messages in the Sand - Intergenerational Project](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/messages-in-the-sand-intergenerational-project/) - All Contemporary Elders sessions 1.30pm to 3.30pm. All younger peoples sessions run 4.30pm to 6.30pm. To book your free tickets, head to our Eventbrite page. Monday 11th September Monday 18th September Monday 25th September Monday 2nd October Monday 9th October Monday 16th October PLEASE NOTE: The younger group is for young people aged up to
- [Exhibition Opening: Storm Warning: What does climate change mean for coastal communities?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-storm-warning-what-does-climate-change-mean-for-coastal-communities/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'Storm Warning: What does climate change mean for coastal communities?', which launches 6pm to 8pm on Saturday 30th September. Everyone is welcome! Nearest station, Southend Central. Check the c2c website for cheap weekend train tickets. This exhibition is a collaboration between Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and
- [Creative Open Day - Street Art Sept 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-street-art-sept-2023/) - Join us on Saturday 2nd September 2023 for our biggest Creative Open Day yet! As part of the City Jam festival, we will be delivering a Creative Open Day like you've never seen before. A BSL interpreter will be present throughout this event. Come along to our Creative Open Day where you will have the
- [Children's Art Club - September to October Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-september-to-october-workshops/) - Children’s Art Club is back 6th September, led by local artist, Charlotte Hamilton. Get ready to get creative and explore a new art form – screen printing! Charlotte will lead us through different workshops experimenting and exploring the art of screen printing This is for young people aged 7 to 11 years. To book, visit
- [Contemporary Elders - Errorless Drawing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-errorless-drawing/) - Artist Barry Sykes will lead a session in what he calls ‘Errorless Drawing’, where the usual criteria for a successful drawing will definitely not apply. We will learn new techniques to think of drawing as a useful, pleasurable way to communicate, not an accurate skill to be judged. Informed by Rebecca Moss’ current exhibition at
- [Artist’s Panel Discussion](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artists-panel-discussion/) - Rebecca Moss’s exhibition ‘Unstable Condition’ uses the language of slapstick humour to comment on the precarity of British seaside resorts, especially those around the UK. We are pleased to be exploring this further in a panel discussion with artists Rebecca Moss, Emma Hart and Wood and Harrison who will discuss their practice in relation to
- [Contemporary Elders - Cyanotype Printing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-cyanotype-printing/) - Join us at Focal Point Gallery where we will be making cyanotype prints! Laurence Harding, a local artist who specialises in analogue and historical photographic processes, will introduce you to the basics of cyanotype printing, one of the earliest forms of photography, recognised by its Prussian blue tint. During this session, we will cover a
- [Contemporary Elders - Shoebox Shrine](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-shoebox-shrine/) - Join us at Focal Point Gallery where we will be making a 'Shrines To Ourselves' Create a feelgood DIY shrine to who you are! Honouring your past, present and future selves. Using multimedia, we will create a 3D collage using text, objects, photos & drawings to make a joyful shrine exploring your memories, dreams, hopes
- [Exhibition Opening: Unstable Condition, Rebecca Moss](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-unstable-condition-rebecca-moss/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'Unstable Condition' by local artist Rebecca Moss which launches 6pm to 8pm on Saturday 24th June, followed by an after-party at Twenty One on the seafront. Everyone is welcome! Nearest station, Southend Central. Check the c2c website for cheap weekend train tickets. In her
- [Book Launch: Tim Burrows](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/book-launch-tim-burrows/) - Join author Tim Burrows in his home city as he discusses his latest book, 'The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English Count' about God’s own county, Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and reality television, consumer culture and right-wing politicians. England's dark id. But beyond the sensationalist
- [Children's Art Club - April to May 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-april-to-may-2023/) - Please note the NEW TIME of Wednesdays 4:30pm to 6:30pm. Join us for the next block of Children's Art Club where we will be focusing on the art of photography. Led by local photography artist, Laurence Harding. Photography is a versatile and unique form of art that allows for a range of creative expression. We
- [Children's Art Club - June to July 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-june-to-july-2023/) - Our next block of Children's Art Club will be led by Farida Kamruddin. This block of Children's Art Club offers an empowering space for young people aged 7 to 11 years to explore using creativity for self expression. Each week we will explore the themes of self-awareness, self-care & self-acceptance through fun and joyful art
- [Contemporary Elders - Soft Toy Creation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-soft-toy-creation/) - Local artist Philippa Stewart will lead a workshop creating soft sculptures inspired by Focal Point Gallery’s current show ‘The Rise and The Fall’ by artist Liz Magor. Participants will respond to the sculptural works of Liz Magor and create their own soft sculpture ‘stuffy’ to take home. Experiment with a range of tactile materials, learn
- [Creative Open Day - Sculptural Drawing 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-may-2023/) - Join us on Saturday 27th May 2023 for another of our popular Creative Open Days! Open and free to all. Come along to FPG’s Creative Open Day where participants will have the opportunity to collaborate and experiment with materials to create their own sculptural assemblage! All are welcome. This activity will be lead by
- [Contemporary Elders - Clay Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-clay-workshop/) - Artist, Emma Edmondson will lead a workshop exploring local clay and land rights. Participants will work with Southend clay dug from the ground to create a decorative plaque and a tile for their home. All materials are provided but if you would like to bring anything of your own to use, this is also welcomed.
- [Creative Open Day - Zine Making 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-zine-making-2023/) - A BSL interpreter will be present throughout as well as the lead artist's assistance dog. Come along to Focal Point Gallery for our Zine Making Creative Open Day, open to all ages and all abilities! Led by local artist, Lu Williams, we will be exploring and creating our very own zines. The day will be
- [Contemporary Elders - Weaving Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-weaving-workshop/) - Learn to weave off-loom (away from the loom) with Sarah Ward. Sarah will be demonstrating how to create simple weavings around small wooden bases with needle and thread. Many found objects can be used as a base for weaving; wood, slate, old tiles, rocks and stones. Off-loom weaving is a great starting point for those
- [Children's Art Club - February to March 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-february-to-march-2023/) - Poetry & Paste is a Creative Wellbeing Session, led by artist, TriggerBliss, that incorporates interactive, confidence building and reflective strategies using creative tools. Participants will use everyday objects to design textured art using homemade paste. We will explore different textures and creative possibilities that invite our reuse, reduce, recycle mentality. Our young people will be
- [Exhibition Opening: The Rise and The Fall, Liz Magor](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-the-rise-and-the-fall-liz-magor/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'The Rise and The Fall' by Liz Magor, which launches 6pm to 8pm on Saturday 4th March – everyone is welcome! Nearest station, Southend Central. Check the c2c website for cheap weekend train tickets. Magor’s first solo exhibition in England presents a focused selection of
- [Contemporary Elders - Portraiture Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-portraiture-workshop/) - This portrait workshop will begin with a series of warm-up and loosening up exercises to build your confidence in drawing. We will play and experiment with different mediums including pens, pencils and charcoal. Michelle will guide us through the techniques of mapping out a simple portrait, which could then be applied to any face -
- [Creative Open Day 2023](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creativeopenday2023/) - There will be a BSL Interpreter at this event. This workshop is for all ages, but under 8's will require some adult supervision. Please only book a ticket for the individual taking part in the workshop - parents/carers are welcome to join without booking a ticket! Join us for a fantastic workshop of light and
- [Learn how to weave with Sarah Ward - Drop in session](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/weaving/) - To celebrate the launch of our new exhibition 'S for Southend' Join us for a drop in session to learn how to use a weaving loom! Guided by local textile artist, Sarah Ward, you will have the opportunity, whilst learning the artistry of weaving, to make your handy work part of the woven artwork on
- [Live Performance: 'Is it Strange?'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/live-performance-is-it-strange/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the fourteenth commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. For her commission, artist Ruth Jones presented a new sound work and live ASMR* performance event at Twenty-One on Sunday 25 September
- [Contemporary Elders – Christmas Social with Laura Mills](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-christmas-social-with-laura-mills/) - Join us for a day celebrating the first year of the Contemporary Elders programme! We have created mood boards, plotted poems, penned songs, explored the story of the witches of Leigh and created fridge magnets – now, we end our year with a Crochet workshop led by artist, Laura Mills. We will also have food!
- [‘Gee Vaucher Book Launch - Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant Garde’](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/gee-vaucher-book-launch-beyond-punk-feminism-and-the-avant-garde/) - Focal Point Gallery is excited to announce the launch of the first ever book on the life and work of the ‘innately disobedient’ Essex artist, Gee Vaucher, of Crass fame, to take place on Thursday 1st December, at 6pm. Following her vast retrospective exhibition at Firstsite Gallery in 2017, this event will feature a digital
- [Contemporary Elders - Leaky Transmissions Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-leaky-transmissions/) - Unlike air microphones that we are most used to, contact microphones are a form of microphone that is sensitive to audio vibrations through contact with solid objects. The microphone picks up sound through vibrations and can open up a whole new way of hearing. Please join us in this workshop and we will make simple
- [Children's Art Club - November to December 2022](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/childrens-art-club-november-to-december-2022/) - Come and learn how to paint using ink! During these Sunday workshops we will learn some new techniques and have fun with various media and develop your own personal style. Learn how to use graffiti pens and Brusho inks. Draw, paint and use mixed media to create your artwork! We will combine all these techniques
- [Rings on Water and Dub Plants:  Live Sound Performance at TwentyOne](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/rings-on-water-and-dub-plants-live-sound-performance-at-twentyone/) - Join us at Twenty One on Thursday 8th December for two live performances by Joe Namy and Nastassja Simensky who are both exhibiting in Receiver, our current exhibition on view until Friday 23rd December. Nastassja Simensky and Rebecca Lee perform a selection of sonic fieldnotes from Rings on Water. Rings on Water was originally commissioned by Focal Point Gallery
- [Digifest 2022 Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-2022/) - Saturday 22nd October to Sunday 30th October 2022 Join us for this year’s Digifest celebrations! Workshops are FREE or low cost and open to all abilities. The 2022 programme is set to inspire you to explore creativeness through the ever-growing digital world. Taking inspiration from our new exhibition; ‘Receiver’, we aim to develop artistic ideas
- [Creative Open Day - Performance Poetry and Open Mic!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-performance-poetry-and-open-mic/) - Free and open to all! To celebrate Black History Month, and coinciding with our Digifest week, this is a special Creative Open Day not to be missed! This will be a day of performance poetry, led by artist, Repeat Beat Poet (Peter deGraft-Johnson) and is an opportunity to showcase the talent in our corner of
- [Exhibition Opening: 'Receiver'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-receiver/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for ‘Receiver’, a group exhibition including works by Appau Jr Boayke-Yiadom, Frazer Merrick, Joe Namy, Nastassja Simensky. The opening will take place at Focal Point Gallery on Saturday 1st October, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. Nearest station, Southend Central. Check the c2c website for cheap
- [Contemporary Elders – ‘Create your Own Adventure’ with Laura Trevail](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-create-your-own-adventure-with-laura-trevail/) - Saturday 22nd October & Sunday 23rd October 2022 11am to 1pm As part of our Digifest celebrations, join us for this special TWO DAY event! Create stories where your readers choose what happens next, using open-source game design software “Twine” in our Contemporary Elder’s event led by artist, Laura Trevail. In this pair of slow-tech workshops,
- [Contemporary Elders - 'Writing Talk' Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-writing-talk-workshop/) - In response to our current exhibition, 'Othered in the Region that is historically Othered' by Elsa James, we will be looking at our own, personal stories. We all have stories to tell and many of us enjoy telling them to family and friends. But fewer of us attempt to put those stories to paper or
- [Contemporary Elders - Walk and Talk with Syd Moore](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-walk-and-talk-with-syd-moore/) - As part of the programme celebrating Elsa James’ inaugural solo exhibition ‘Othered, in a region that has been historically othered’, acclaimed writer Syd Moore will be visiting Focal Point Gallery to talk about the research which she embeds in her novels about the witch trials and speaking about the othering that the accused experienced. Following
- [Things You Never Get Taught #13 Show Up Southend - Level Up!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-13-show-up-southend-level-up/) - For this session, we are in person, yep you heard it, in real-life fleshy 4D realness! Collaborating with Show Up! Southend to focus on two areas that are necessary but often mysterious; How to price your work and the major art and craft selling platform Etsy. Penny (Penelope Allard) from Wild Bookkeeping will take us
- [Sunday Children's Art Club - September to November 2022](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/sunday-childrens-art-club-september-to-november-2022/) - Come and learn how to weave! During these Sunday workshops we will try lots of different types of weaving - from colourful paper weaving, to frame weaving, we'll weave around wood, tiles and twigs, using a fabulous array of colourful yarns that have all been rescued from landfill. We'll have a go at weaving on
- [East 15 Performance](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/east-15-performance-2/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for a series of performances by current BA Physical Theatre students from East 15 Acting School. Taking place throughout the gallery space, the performances have been developed in response to Mark Fell's current exhibition, 'The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent'. East 15 Acting School is a British drama
- [Nandini Muthuswamy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/nandini-muthuswamy/) - Join us for an evening of live violin performance and transcendental meditation led by renowned South Indian carnatic violinist Nandini Muthuswamy. Book your ticket here. About Transcendental Meditation: Transcendental Meditation dates its origins back to the Vedic traditions of India and was primarily founded in the 1950s by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a disciple of a
- [International Women's Day 2019 | The Afterparty!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/international-womes-day-2019-the-afterparty/) - Join Southend Museums, Focal Point Gallery, GRRRL ZINE FAIR and local female artists in a unique celebration of poetry, performance and punk for International Women's Day 2019. A huge mix of womxn led acts from across Essex will be taking over Twenty One to celebrate talent across sound and performance from 7.30pm to 11.00pm, sending
- [Exhibition Launch: 'Practice Makes Perfect'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-launch-practice-makes-perfect/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, the first institutional exhibition of new work by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. The opening will take place at Focal Point Gallery on Saturday 22 May, from 11.00pm to 6.00pm.
- [It Ain't Half Racist, Mum](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/it-aint-half-racist-mum/) - Please join us for a film screening and discussion on cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s 1979 documentary, It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum. Produced for the BBC’s Open Door series (1973-1983), which allowed marginalised groups to speak to audiences without editorial interference, Stuart Hall and actor Maggie Steed present an exposé of the subtle and explicit racism and
- [Exhibition Tour: 'Practice Makes Perfect'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-practice-makes-perfect/) - Please join FPG Director Katharine Stout for a free guided tour of Rosa-Johan Uddoh's solo exhibition 'Practice Makes Perfect'. ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ explores the relationship of childhood education with popular ideas of the British nation, and how this forms British subjects. This develops Uddoh’s practice exploring the effects of black British popular culture on self-formation.
- [Things You Never Get Taught #3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-6/) - Things You Never Get Taught #3 Enduring the Impact of the Coronavirus No one would ever had believed the country would be in a third lock-down in this pandemic. Life is tough at the moment and what we can do is try to support those most at risk, in relation to their health, well-being and
- [FPG Postcards Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-fpg-postcards-and-practice-makes-perfect-book-launch/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to launch our most recent project, bringing together works by seven Essex-based artists who provide a diverse and unique perspective through the medium of photography on Southend, South Essex and the Estuary. As part of our celebrated Printed Matter collection, the commissioned artworks will be presented on postcards, sales of
- [Special Viewing: 'Othered in a region that has been historically Othered' and Railway Bridge Commission Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/special-viewing-othered-in-a-region-that-has-been-historically-othered/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special viewing of ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’, by artist Elsa James. The event will also mark the launch of ‘ESSEX @WAY from keyboard?’ by artist George Morl, a new temporary public artwork for our annual railway bridge commission. Taking place at Focal
- [Net Zero - can it be done? A debate by young people for young people](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/net-zero-can-it-be-done-a-debate-by-young-people-for-young-people/) - The last decade was the warmest on record, with 2019 being the second warmest year ever recorded. These alarming milestones will continue to be topped unless we find a way to reduce our impact on the environment. One of the most ambitious targets set by many governments worldwide is to reach net zero carbon emissions
- [Symposium: International Modernism and the Worker Village: from Essex to Shanghai](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/symposium-international-modernism-and-the-worker-village-from-essex-to-shanghai/) - ‘International Modernism and the Worker Village: from Essex to Shanghai’ is an online symposium assessing the development of the pioneering British Modernist projects of the 1920s and 30s for working communities in Essex, specifically Silver End in Braintree, the Bata Estate in East Tilbury, and the Becontree Estate in former Essex, now London Borough of
- [Creative Open Day 99 by 19](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-3/) - Join us for our FREE Creative Open Day at Focal Point Gallery! Funded through the 99 by 19 Creative Exchange programme. 11am to 3pm on Saturday 17th September! Join us at Focal Point Gallery to explore your creativity in a fun, interactive workshop looking at spray-can art with artist Scotty Brave! Taking place just outside
- [Job Opportunity: Deputy Director](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/job-opportunity-deputy-director/) - Focal Point Gallery are looking for a committed and entrepreneurial individual ready for a new challenge to play a leadership role in sustaining and growing our work to support artists, local residents and visiting audiences to produce, present and engage with high quality contemporary art. The Deputy Director works closely with the Director and key
- [Contemporary Elders - George Morl: ‘Essex @way From Keyboard?’ Talk and Tour](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-george-morl-essex-way-from-keyboard-talk-and-tour/) - To coincide with Focal Point Gallery’s annual Railway Bridge commission, George Morl will give a talk and lead a guided tour within Southend exploring the themes within their work ‘Essex @way from keyboard?’. To celebrate 100 years of radio broadcasting in the county and Southend becoming a ‘Digital City’, Morl's work is a digital network
- [SIGN/SOUND/SOUTHEND](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/sign-sound-southend/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to invite D/deaf people and BSL users to a free, informal workshop with local artist Damien Robinson. Would you like to help Damien make a short film looking at the sounds of Southend from a D/deaf perspective? Can you help us show that sound is more than hearing? This workshop
- [Things You Never Get Taught #11 Practice First and How to Fund it](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-11-practice-first-and-how-to-fund-it/) - In this session of TYNGT we are led by Julie Lomax and their extensive knowledge and experience of working in the arts and supporting artists, currently the CEO of the essential a-n, Artists Network. Julie will give a presentation covering a number of considerations around your practice and approaching funders; who, how and suitability for
- [Things You Never Get Taught #12 Running up that Hill? Come on in!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-12-running-up-that-hill-come-on-in/) - Mary Cork, curator, and consultant with over 15 years of experience will join us for this session of our ongoing program. Mary Cofounded ZELDA in 2020, offering a more holistic and shared alternative to art consultancy. Income earned by ZELDA feeds back into the organisation to assist underrepresented artists in the creative community. This is
- [Contemporary Elders - Song Writing Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-song-writing-workshop/) - Songs can represent a range of topics, emotions and stories. This fun and interactive session will introduce you to the key approaches to writing a song using history as a starting point and resource. You will be exploring the local and hidden histories of three Southend based people, using this to write a song. Bring
- [Exhibition Opening: Elsa James, 'Othered in a region that has been historically Othered'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/opening-elsa-james-othered-in-a-region-that-has-been-historically-othered/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’, by artist Elsa James. The opening will take place at Focal Point Gallery on Saturday 25 June, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. Nearest station, Southend Central. Check the c2c website for cheap weekend train tickets. This exhibition
- [A Complete Basket Case](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-complete-basket-case/) - Focal Point Gallery are delighted to be participating We Are Invisible, We Are Visible (WAIWAV) presented by DASH, the disabled led visual arts organisation. On 2 July 2022, 31 Disabled artists will disrupt 30 locations with surreal interventions, in recognition of the 102nd anniversary of the first Dada International Exhibition. Dada is dead. Long live
- [Sunday Children's Art Club - June to July 2022](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/sunday-childrens-art-club-june-to-july-2022/) - The last block of the academic year will be led by artist Steve Lawes. With Steve, we will travel back through Britain’s past to the times of the Romans, Celts, Saxons and Vikings. In these sessions, we will try out several different artforms and learn about the people who lived on this island before us.
- [Radical ESSEX Walks: Othered in a region that has been historically Othered](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/radical-essex-walks-othered-in-a-region-that-has-been-historically-othered/) - Join artist Elsa James and novelist Syd Moore for a guided walk from Mistley to Manningtree, the setting of the county’s famed witch hysterias which are mentioned in several of Moore’s books. In her forthcoming exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, James focuses on the speculative presence of black women during the Essex Witch Trials, using
- [Sunday Childrens' Art Club](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/sunday-childrens-art-club/) - Join us at Focal Point Gallery for a club focusing on creating, exploring and learning about art and artists in an open and supportive environment. Every Sunday, 1:30pm to 3:30pm This club is a weekly club for children ages 8-12 years. Led by local artist, each two-hour workshop they will get the chance to develop
- [Contemporary Elders - Fridge Magnet Creation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-may/) - Join us for our next Contemporary Elders FREE workshop at Focal Point Gallery, led by Elliot Gibbons, where participants will have the opportunity to discuss and share thoughts and feelings about what makes Southend feel like home to them as part of the public consultation work of Lu Williams’ new commission for a major public
- [Summer Creative Open Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/summer-creative-open-day/) - Join us for our FREE Summer Creative Open Day at Focal Point Gallery! 11am to 3pm on Saturday 4th June On the occasion of the special bank holiday to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, join us at Focal Point Gallery to explore your creativity in a fun, interactive workshop looking at spray-can art with artist
- [Have your say on a new public art work for Southend City Centre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/have-your-say-on-a-new-public-art-work-for-southend-town-centre/) - Local artist Lu Williams invites local residents to share their memories, ideas, and thoughts towards a new public artwork for Southend City Centre. Proposing to create large, playful sculptures in the style of fridge magnets, Williams wants to hear from you to inform the final design! Fill out our survey, join a free public workshop
- [Contemporary Elders - 'New Model Home' Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders/) - We are delighted to announce Focal Point Gallery’s programme of Contemporary Elders in now open to the new participants! The forthcoming session on Saturday 23 April will be led by local artist Laura Whiting who will show participants how to draw inspiration from the tones, textures and utopian ideals presented in Focal Point Gallery’s current
- [Opening: Cui Jie 'New Model Village' and ‘Parallel’, Rosanna Lee](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/opening-cui-jie-new-model-village-and-parallel-rosanna-lee/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'New Model Village', by artist Cui Jie. Following an initial research visit in Autumn 2019, to the 1920s modernist factory town at Silver End and the 1930s Bata Estate in East Tilbury in Essex, Cui Jie has been researching digital archives and records.
- [Unusual Rules for Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/unusual-rules-for-making-with-shaun-c-badham/) - Calling all teachers! Join Focal Point Gallery’s artist-led continuing development practice workshops for teachers of all subjects interested in creative thinking. ‘New Ways of Making’ is a series of 3, one hour online zoom sessions to inform the teaching and explanation of difference types of artform, led by specialist artists in these fields. In this
- [You’ve been framed - Performance and Photography Games](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/youve-been-framed-with-lolly-adams/) - Calling all teachers! Join Focal Point Gallery’s artist-led continuing development practice workshops for teachers of all subjects interested in creative thinking. ‘New Ways of Making’ is a series of 3, one hour online zoom sessions to inform the teaching and explanation of difference types of artform, led by specialist artists in these fields. In this
- [Fast Art and Accidental Sculpture](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fast-art-and-accidental-sculpture-with-emma-edmondson/) - Calling all teachers! Join Focal Point Gallery’s artist-led continuing development practice workshops for teachers of all subjects interested in creative thinking. ‘New Ways of Making’ is a series of 3, one hour online zoom sessions to inform the teaching and explanation of difference types of artform, led by specialist artists in these fields. In this
- [Radical ESSEX Walks: The Bata Estate and Tilbury Marshes with Emma Twine](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/radical-essex-walks-the-bata-estate-and-tilbury-marshes-with-emma-twine/) - Experience the Bata Estate with architect Emma Twine. Starting at East Tilbury Library, visit Bata Heritage Centre and see the archives of this modernist working town, before exploring the flat top housing estate, factory buildings and nearby marshlands. This event is programmed as part of Cui Jie's solo exhibition ‘New Model Village’. This event is
- [Creative Open Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day-2/) - 11am – 3pm Led by London-based photography artist, Jonathan Goldberg. As part of Cui Jie’s exhibition ‘New Model Village’ at Focal Point Gallery, we are excited to welcome you to a photography workshop focused on communities and how that reflects onto individuals. In this FREE workshop, participants will go on a guided walk around the
- [Control Voltage: FPG Sounds Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/control-voltage-fpg-sounds-launch/) - We’re pleased to present a live event to mark the launch of our experimental sound programme, FPG Sounds. Presented in association with ‘Control Voltage’, a regular electronic music night in Southend organised by Al Johnson (Ship Full of Bombs, Masal, Alien). Including an exciting line-up of contemporary electronic music performances from artists K-A-B, Adrian Lane,
- [Archiving with the Southend D/deaf Community](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/archiving-with-the-southend-d-deaf-community/) - Focal Point Gallery are pleased to invite you to an event and workshop to discuss how the experience and stories of the D/deaf community of Southend, Essex or East Anglia can be accurately recorded or represented in regional or national archives. Do you have a unique local sign for a place nearby you’d like to
- [Zine Making Workshop for Vanishing Point](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/zine-making-workshop-for-vanishing-point/) - We are excited to be collaborating with Grrrl Zine Fair to create a zine to accompany Mary Mattingly's Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point considers how the plant life of the Thames Estuary has evolved and responded to a changing climate over millions of years, and how this knowledge might be used as a prediction for a
- [Contemporary Elders - PLOT: The Peoples’ Landscape](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-plot-the-peoples-landscape/) - Please join artist, Shaun C. Badham for our Contemporary Elders event at Springfield Drive allotment with Fay Armstrong; Secretary and Malcolm Pinborough; site manager of Westcliff Land Cultivation Society. Armstrong and Pinborough will provide a guided tour of the allotment site, how the community operates and the history of the site. This will be followed by a
- [Estuary Bioregionalism](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/estuary-bioregionalism/) - Think Global, Act Local! has been a rallying cry of environmentalism for decades - but what does living and acting locally mean? Bioregionalism is an approach to living sustainably in place that critically questions our current mapping and governance of physical territory. Taylor will exploring this concept and how it might look here in the
- [This Plot is Not for Sale: Sign Making Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/this-plot-is-not-for-sale-sign-making-workshops/) - Artists Shaun C. Badham and Philippa Stewart will be working with families and friends of Trust Links at St Laurence Orchard for the Apple Day Celebration, where you will be able to make your own This Plot is Not for Sale sign. Using an array of colours and techniques, everyone who makes a sign will
- [Apple Pressing Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/apple-pressing-day/) - Bring your apples along to The Old Waterworks in North Road and learn how to turn them into delicious juice with our apple press. Just bring your apples, a container for your juice if you'd like to take some away or just come along and have a go! This event is presented as part of
- [‘How to Make a Bomb’: Presentation and public rose grafting workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/how-to-make-a-bomb-performance-and-public-rose-grafting-workshop/) - Learn how to make your own ‘Atom Bomb’ rose. As part of ‘How to Make a Bomb’, an ongoing project by artist Gabriella Hirst with curator Warren Harper, Focal Point Gallery will be hosting a presentation by Hirst, followed by a rose grafting workshop. During the session you will graft your own rose to be
- [Vanishing Point Workshop: Miniature Edible Garden](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/vanishing-point-workshop-miniature-edible-garden/) - Learn how to create a miniature edible garden! Join Stephanie Golder to build one in any container, no garden required! Stephanie is the founder of community group Incredible Edible Leigh-on-Sea, an initiative to grow food in public spaces to inspire conversation about the food system, teach new skills and create social connections. She is also
- [Vanishing Point Workshop: Bundle Dyeing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/vanishing-point-workshop-bundle-dyeing/) - Learn a simple, safe, fun way of dyeing fabric with Anna Lukala! In this workshop, you can learn about the best plants and vegetables to use to make fabric dyes. Seeds will be available to start growing your own, or you can take them home. Anna will talk through the steps of growing and looking
- [Vanishing Point Workshop: A Garden in your Kitchen](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/vanishing-point-workshop-a-garden-in-your-kitchen/) - Did you know that your kitchen can be a ‘garden’ in its own right, using the minimum amount of space to produce intensively grown, nutrient rich 'micro-crops' and ferments all year round, especially when other fresh vegetables can be hard to find? This beginner session led by Graham Burnett demystifies the arts and techniques of
- [Exhibition Launch: 'S for Southend'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-launch-s-for-southend/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to invite you to a special opening event for 'S for Southend', an inspiring new community exhibition showcasing artworks made by local residents and artists of all ages during our exhibition ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ and from this year’s Digifest, our annual celebration of digital arts. The opening will take
- [Make Do and Mend FREE Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/make-do-and-mend-workshop/) - Trustlinks ECO Days is excited to bring you this event in conjunction with Focal Point Gallery as part of the programme for the exhibition, ‘S for Southend’. Come along a repair, reuse, or upcycle a garment of any kind in this FREE workshop at Focal Point Gallery. In this workshop, we will be looking at
- [Contemporary Elders: Online Cracking Code](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-online-cracking-code/) - Building on from the success of Contemporary Elders: Digital Connectivity film, this innovative project 'Online Cracking Code' provides creative skills sharing sessions for a group of Digital Ambassadors from South Essex Homes led by artist Laura Trevail. In these practical workshops, the group have discussed the hopes and fears around digital technology, and provide hands-on
- [Film Screening: Maz Murray, 'Poppets'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-maz-murray-poppets/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a film screening of 'Poppets', a new film by artist Maz Murray. ‘Poppets’ is a surreal soap opera set in Basildon and the Estuary, following an Essex girl investigating malpractice in a local housing development, and two women who meet and fall in love on a night out at
- [Creative Open Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/creative-open-day/) - Join us at Focal Point Gallery for our creative open day – open to all ages, backgrounds and abilities! As part of the ‘S for Southend’ exhibition, this workshop will be based on the theme’s community, light and hope. We will explore the local architecture, led by a local artist, participants will discover the high
- [In Conversation with Becky Beasley and Abigail Jouanides](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-becky-beasley-and-abigail-jouanides/) - Becky Beasley and Abigail Jouanides will discuss the politics and histories of printed matter, the power of small individual private gestures, self identification through clothing, queering and boundary spaces and neurodivergent perspectives. Book your free ticket through Event Brite here Becky Beasley is an artist who lives and works in St. Leonards-on-Sea. Beasley produces objects, photographs and
- [Victoria Centre Creative Open Day - free drop-in!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/victoria-centre-creative-open-day-free-drop-in/) - This event is free and open to all ages in the Victoria Centre in Southend. Running from 11am to 3pm. Need a break from Christmas shopping with the little ones? Want to create something unique for the winter? Then come join Focal Point Gallery for this fun, creative and festive drop-in workshop in the Victoria
- ['Tip of the Iceberg' recommended reading list](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/tip-of-the-iceberg-recommended-reading-list/) - Here is a suggested reading list by Warren Harper, curator, researcher and Director of The Old Waterworks to compliment the exhibition, ‘Tip of the Iceberg’. These books offer us insights into botany, horticultural history and eco-systems from different perspectives. All of the titles are available from The Old Waterworks library. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding
- [Vanishing Point Workshop: Wildflower Seed Sharing and Pollinator Plants](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/vanishing-point-workshop-wildflower-seed-sharing-and-pollinator-plants/) - Get to know your wildflowers and start growing them from home at this seed sharing session with Rachel Ellis. In this workshop Rachel will explain how to get started with planting seeds that you will be able to take home. Please feel free to bring along your own excess seedlings or seeds to share with
- [Exhibition Tour Video: Practice Makes Perfect](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/online-exhibition-tour-practice-makes-perfect/) - In this short video, artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh introduces her current solo exhibition 'Practice Makes Perfect'. Filmed and edited by Paul Bates and Gabrielle Milanese. ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ explores the relationship between childhood education and how popular ideas of the British nation are formed. In particular, Uddoh explores the effects of black British popular culture
- [Things You Never Get Taught #9](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-9/) - For Things You Never Get Taught #9 we host artist Amy Beeston to talk tech, responsibility, and carbon reduction. Amy is an artist working in sound and audio research, living in Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of Scotland. She is also the co-founder of SONA and Yorkshire Sound Women Network. Book your free
- [A Creative Commons? The future of Estuary Commons](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-creative-commons-the-future-of-estuary-commons/) - The Thames Estuary serves many purposes. As the country’s major waterway and shipping channel, it was once the centre of the British Empire controlling a quarter of the world’s land via sea. It includes some of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes and its coastal habitats and marshlands sustain various agricultural and foraging practices, some of
- [The Peoples Landscape: Podcast](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-peoples-landscape-podcast/) -  The People’s Landscape podcast aims to look at how the ownership of local land in South Essex has changed over the years from farmers, land speculators, plotlanders to current day. We hope to better understand the synergy between both these past communities and today’s local allotment societies and community growing projects. By tracing the demise of the plotlanders from compulsive purchasing
- [Digifest: Online Cracking Code](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-online-cracking-code/) - Code is poetry for a machine to live by. Do you sometimes look at that glassy screen while scrolling and wish you knew what was really going on in there? Do you wish you could pry it apart and peek inside - not just at the metal and wires but at how it is thinking
- [A Creative Commons? Historical Commons and Landscape Character](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-creative-commons-historical-commons-and-landscape-character/) - The Thames Estuary serves many purposes. As the country’s major waterway and shipping channel, it was once the centre of the British Empire controlling a quarter of the world’s land via sea. It includes some of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes and its coastal habitats and marshlands sustain various agricultural and foraging practices, some of
- [A Creative Commons? Commons, Ecosystems and Public Interventions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-creative-commons-commons-ecosystems-and-public-interventions/) - The Thames Estuary serves many purposes. As the country’s major waterway and shipping channel, it was once the centre of the British Empire controlling a quarter of the world’s land via sea. It includes some of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes and its coastal habitats and marshlands sustain various agricultural and foraging practices, some of
- [DigiFest: Instrument and Soundscape Creation - Free Drop In!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-instrument-and-soundscape-creation/) - This event is free and appropriate for all ages. Create and build your own instrument in this interactive workshop that joins music, culture and creativity with the advantages of digital technology. Your own sound piece will be recorded and manipulated by professional film composer, Greg Birkumshaw, into a track that will be edited and sent
- [Rose Garden Conference](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/rose-garden-conference/) - Curated by Gabriella Hirst and Warren Harper, presented by The Old Waterworks and Metal, in conjunction with Focal Point Gallery’s ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ exhibition Since the forced removal of the Estuary 2021 commission ‘An English Garden’ from Gunners Park in June 2021 we have been working to ensure that the ‘How to Make a
- [Digifest: Online Song Writing](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-online-song-writing/) - Southend YMCA music tutor, Davey Hal will be delivering a collaborative group song writing workshop in an online format. Learn the tips and tricks of the best songwriters in the industry and explore the fundamentals of writing both original music and lyrics with a singer and songwriter with years of knowledge and experience performing in the
- [Digifest: Children's Art Club](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-childrens-art-club/) - In this special Children’s Art Club, participants will explore drawing and creating without restrictions! Participants will create pieces inspired by music and sounds, then get the opportunity to digitalise their work. This is the perfect introduction to the world of digital art. Florence Scott is a prop maker, puppet creator and illustrator from Essex. Her
- [DigiFest: Experimenting with Sound](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-experimenting-with-sound/) - Come and make a beat using samples you’ll create from your own field recordings. You will create the beat via an app provided on a tablet/laptop you can use for the session. No experience or ability to play a musical instrument is necessary, just a basic sense of rhythm. This workshop will suit absolute beginners with
- [Things You Never Got Taught #8 Decarbonising your Creative Practice in the Climate Crisis](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-8-decarbonising-your-creative-practice-in-the-climate-crisis/) - In this session of TYNGT we invite artists to think about their practice in the frame of climate impact. Eco-anxious artist Sean Roy Parker will make a presentation and open the session for debate! A short exercise to provoke thought and new understanding will be issued prior to the event, with a chance to share
- [DigiFest: Pixel Animation to Sound](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-pixel-animation-to-sound/) - In this exciting session, each participant will create plasticine models and a background set, then learn to film a stop-motion animation to a soundtrack. Simon Fowler is a photographer who focuses his work on the Estuary and the East Coast. He has a boundless passion for film, running regular film clubs at Create98 and an
- [DigiFest: Found Sound Sampling](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-found-sound-sampling/) - Learn how to create an eclectic and imaginative piece of music using the things that surround you! Participants will learn how to sample sounds from everyday life and reinvent them into soundscapes using digital sampling techniques. Participants will be using Mac’s and be given the opportunity to create a soundscape as part of a group
- [Exhibition Launch: ‘Tip of the Iceberg’](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-launch-tip-of-the-iceberg/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to invite you to a special opening event for the group exhibition ‘Tip of the Iceberg’. Featuring works from Artists: Shaun C. Badham, Becky Beasley, Kathrin Böhm, Graham Burnett, Gabriella Hirst with Warren Harper, Anna Lukala, Mary Mattingly, Uriel Orlow, Rachel Pimm, Alida Rodrigues, Zheng Bo. This project reveals the
- [Free Outdoor Cinema Screenings](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/free-outdoor-cinema-screenings/) - Free Outdoor Cinema screenings at The Forum return for the fifth year! This year’s programme includes film titles that have been chosen in response to Southend Libraries annual summer reading challenge, ‘Wild World Heroes’. Taking place every Saturday in August at 3.00pm, screenings are free and no booking is necessary. However, due to safety restrictions,
- [The Black Curriculum](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-black-curriculum/) - Join us on Thursday 19 August for a panel discussion which will consider the importance of diversifying the UK education system. Presented as part of an associate programme of events for Rosa-Johan Uddoh's solo exhibition 'Practice Makes Perfect', the panel will use the exhibition as a starting point to discuss the impact of education on
- [In Conversation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-2/) - Please join artist Janette Parris and Katharine Stout, Director of Focal Point Gallery for an in conversation on the new site-specific artwork ‘A View without the Bridge’, the annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. Parris will discuss how she has responded to this unique location at the heart of Southend’s Town Centre in relation to her wider
- [WellbeingMatters documentary launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/wellbeingmatters-documentary-launch/) - On the eve of World Mental Health Day, WellbeingMatters will launch a new short film on Mental Health. 'Circle of Support' aims to improve awareness and highlight the importance of mental health support networks for those living with mental health issues. The film features 17 individuals who live or work in Southend speaking freely and honestly
- [Who am I? Identity and Belonging](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/who-am-i-identity-and-belonging/) - Part of the New Geographies public programme, a group discussion with Maria Anastassiou, Elsa James and Ren Stedman, chaired by Fanny von Beaverhausen will be held around the topic of identity in its many forms and definitions, from international displacement impact to class, gender and sexual identity. This event is free and all are welcome,
- [Family Arts Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/family-arts-day-big-draw/) - Focal Point Gallery will be running free workshops led by local artists, Damien Robinson and Hannah Rose Whittle, exploring collective identity using different drawing methods such as ‘drawbots’ and clay. "Through exploring mark-making and drawing in clay, we will create individual clay tiles with distinctive surface imprints, lines and textures. These tiles will be placed together into a collective whole,
- [A Place of Sanctuary: Panel Discussion](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-place-of-sanctuary-essex-as-a-landscape-for-mental-health-and-wellbeing/) - With its many land settlements and self-sufficient communities, Essex in the early twentieth century provided an escape from the poverty and mental distress of the slums of East London. From retreats such as Greenwood in Stock, The Othona Community at Bradwell and the work at Runwell Hospital, Essex has long been a home for new
- [In conversation: Lindsay Seers and Anil Seth](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-lindsay-seers-and-anil-seth/) - Discussing the science behind 'Every Thought There Ever Was', Lindsay Seers will be in conversation with Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University of Sussex to discuss Avatar Therapy. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Anil will be joining the conversation remotely. This event will take place in the Pod at South Essex College,
- [Speak Your Mind](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/speak-your-mind/) - An evening of stories through the tradition of verbal performance and acapella song programmed by storytelling collective Spinning Yarns.
- [Make A World: Make A Game](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/make-a-word-make-a-game/) - Come, make and play a new tabletop roleplaying fantasy game in the style of Dungeons and Dragons with artist David Blandy, inspired by the wildlife and landscape of Canvey Island. We will design monstrous beings to populate our world, draw maps for our adventures, imagine different civilisations and new forms of life. Drawing, painting, writing
- [We Are Publication](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/we-are-publication/) - Focal Point Gallery is happy to invite you to a public feedback session on experimental publishing. 'We Are Publication' will take up a one-day residency at Twenty-One. During this time the group will produce an experimental and speculative publication; the shape and form of which will be determined on the day and presented to the
- [The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent' and 'A Stitch Outside Time](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-concept-of-time-is-intrinsically-incoherent-and-a-stitch-outside-time/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch event of Mark Fell 'The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent' and 'A Stitch Outside Time', opening Saturday 19 January, 6.00pm to 9.00pm. Focal Point Gallery is delighted to announce an ambitious new sound commission by the artist and musician Mark Fell. Using sound synthesis
- [Essex Book Festival: A Walk Through Canvey Wick](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/essex-book-festival-a-walk-through-canvey-wick/) - As part of the annual Essex Book Festival, join artist David Blandy for a walk around the fascinating setting of Canvey Wick on Canvey Island, an abandoned oil-refinery turned nature reserve recognised as one of the most biodiverse areas in the UK. Blandy has been working with Focal Point Gallery to design a new table-top
- [Electric Orange/Automatic Blue Launch Event](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/electric-orange-automatic-blue-launch-event/) - You are invited to the launch event for Bridget Smith's permanent commission Electric Orange/Automatic Blue Bridget Smith will be in conversation with Clare Cumberlidge and Ken Worpole at Trust Links, 47 Fairfax Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 9AG at 11.00am, followed by a walk along Prittle Brook Greenway to visit both art works. The walk ends a short distance from
- [Day Tripper](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/day-tripper/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch event of 'Day Tripper' with Liz Arnold, Maria Farrar and Samara Scott opening Saturday 20 July from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. ‘Day Tripper’ brings together painter Liz Arnold (1964-2001) with two contemporary artists, Maria Farrar and Samara Scott, in consideration of the continued relevance of Arnold’s
- [Panel Discussion](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/panel-discussion-andrew-graham-dixon-brighid-lowe-and-janette-parris/) - Art Critic and TV presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon will be joined by artists Brighid Lowe and Janette Parris to discuss the continued relevance of Liz Arnold’s inventive practice, her influence on other artists and the legacy she has left behind. Tickets are £4.00 per person, with concessions available. Please book your ticket here. Born in London in
- [Exhibition Tour: Day Tripper](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-with-maria-farrar-and-katharine-stout/) - Please join artist Maria Farrar and Katharine Stout, Director of Focal Point Gallery for a guided tour of the works in the exhibition 'Day Tripper'. Farrar will discuss her practice and how Liz Arnold's paintings have inspired and influenced her new work for the exhibition, followed by a short Q&A session. This event is free and all are welcome. Find out more
- [Exhibition Tour: Day Tripper](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-with-laura-bowen-assistant-curator/) - Please join Laura Bowen, Assistant Curator for a guided tour of the works in the exhibition 'Day Tripper'. This event is free and all are welcome. No booking necessary. Find out more about the exhibition here.
- [Woman with Salad](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/woman-with-salad/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to host ‘Woman with Salad’, a performance by Emily Perry. Perry’s interest in the repetitive actions of women’s labour and the endless loop format of the GIF intersect with a comparison between contemporary stock imagery and Johannes Vermeer’s 17th century paintings of domestic women forever captured in precarious mundanity. ‘Woman with
- [Pulp Puppets](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/pulp-puppets/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to host artists from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, who invite you to a night of live performances, durational and participatory works at Twenty One on 31st August. The programme will include a participatory exercise in public confession and absolution; an invitation to dance; a rugby coach having an existential
- [The World After](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-world-after/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch event of David Blandy, ‘The World After', opening Saturday 26 October from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. ‘The World After’ is a newly commissioned work and exhibition by artist David Blandy. Comprised of a film, installation and game, ‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines
- [Radical Histories of Basildon](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/radical-histories-of-basildon/) - 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Basildon’s designation as a post-war British New Town. Writer and researcher Holly Firmin, in conversation with Shaun C. Badham of Bas Arts Index and Lu Williams of Grrrl Zine Fair, will discuss how we might go about producing alternative, ‘radical’ histories, art and archives about Basildon. Holly Firmin is
- [In conversation: David Blandy and Dr. Merline Evans](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-david-blandy-and-dr-merline-evans/) - 'In conversation: David Blandy and Dr Merline Evans, chaired by Jamie Sutcliffe' audio recording. David Blandy will be joined in conversation with local writer and researcher Dr. Merline Evans, chaired by writer Jamie Sutcliffe, to discuss his new film, exhibition and table-top roleplay game ‘The World After’, currently on view at Focal Point Gallery until
- [Live Action Role Play](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/live-action-role-play-seaxe-sorcery/) - Join us for a live action role play (LARP) demonstration with members of Seaxe & Sorcery, a fantasy LARP group based in Essex which draws on history, mythology and fiction. Led by Gary Bates, co-author of ‘The World After’ table-top roleplay game with David Blandy. LARP is a form of role-playing game where the participants
- [Canvey Wick Guided Walk](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/canvey-wick-guided-walk/) - Join us for a guided walk through Canvey Wick Nature Reserve with David Blandy and Chris Fenwick, manager of Canvey Island pub rock band Dr Feelgood. The walk will begin at Canvey Wick Nature Reserve off Northwick Road and end at The Lobster Smack pub by the seawall at Holehaven Creek. Learn about the fascinating
- [Big Screen Southend Commissions Awarded](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/big-screen-southend-commissions-awarded/) - Following a call for submissions last year, FPG is pleased to announce the artists who have been awarded new commissions or screening opportunities at Big Screen Southend, selected by artist Elsa James, artist and filmmaker Renee Vaughan Sutherland and Focal Point Gallery Assistant Curator James Ravinet. Due to the number of applicants, FPG have doubled
- [The World After Game Session](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-introduction-and-game-run-through/) - Join us for a free exhibition introduction followed by a game session of table-top roleplaying game ‘The World After’ with David Blandy. No experience necessary. This event is free to attend, to secure your place please book here. As well as presenting an exhibition and film at Focal Point Gallery, Blandy saw the potential in table-top roleplay
- [Digital Workshop with David Blandy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-world-after-digital-workshop/) - Join David Blandy for a digital photography and photoshop activity using the The World After gaming characters. Using DSLR cameras with macro filters and Adobe Photoshop software, you can created your own 'World After' vision. Book your place here
- [Things you never get taught...#1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-1/) - 'Things you never get taught...' is a new series of free development workshops for artists, arts organisations and those who want to develop their cultural offer. This series will focus on essential skills that might be overlooked by formal arts education, such as writing funding applications and developing a career as an artist. 'Things you
- [Digifest: Home Education Group](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/home-education-group-digifest/) - Focal Point Gallery's art club for home educated children forms an introduction to the artists and exhibitions in the organisation’s rolling programme, and helps participants engage in practical workshops within the exhibition spaces. In these events, children try out new skills, explore materials, and develop their critical abilities in an encouraging and open atmosphere. Carers are very
- [Digifest: Film Making Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digital-film-making-workshops/) - As part of Digifest, Focal Point Gallery will be hosting a series of film-making workshops. These workshops will focus on video capture and editing using Adobe Premier software. DSLR cameras and laptops with editing software are available to use in small groups, or bring your own. We welcome people of all abilities over the age
- [Digifest: Digital Illustration Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-digital-illustration-workshop/) - As part of Digifest, Focal Point Gallery will be hosting an evening digital illustration workshop open to participants of all ages and abilities. This workshop will be led by Cat Rogers, illustrator of ‘The World After’ game and publication. We particularly welcome those with caring responsibilities. Wednesday 15 January, 6.30 to 8.30pm. Find out more here. These
- [Digifest: Family Animation Activities](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-family-animation-activities/) - As part of Digifest, Focal Point Gallery will be hosting two afternoon workshops of collaborative family artworks using digital animation techniques, led by Taylor Jack Smith. Cut out characters will created and photographed, the resulting animation will be included in the Digifest 2020 Celebration event on 22 February at Twenty One. Free to attend, a suggested donation of
- [Digifest: Saturday Art Club](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-saturday-art-club/) - As part of Digifest, Saturday Art Club sessions will have a digital focus in the month of January. Taylor Jack Smith will be leading workshops creating characters and learning key digital photography skills. These workshops are for children aged between 7 and 11 years. Booking online is advisable, but feel free to email focalpointgallery@southend.gov.uk to reserve
- [800,000 tonnes: Talking Rubbish with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/800000-tonnes-talking-rubbish/) - 800,000 tonnes: Waste Management and Recycling in Essex is a programme of displays, site tours, and discussions that will map waste in Essex past and present. This programme is presented by artist Eloise Hawser as part of Focal Point Gallery's Radical ESSEX programme. Historically, Essex has been home to some of the largest landfills in Europe,
- [800,000 tonnes: Walk 1, Tilbury Port: Infrastructure with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/800000-tonnes-walking-tour-1-tilbury-port/) - In the first of our four visits, we will be going to the Port of Tilbury, the UK’s largest waste import and export location. Tilbury’s Port receives, processes and exports dozens of different kinds of waste from the UK and overseas alike, including wood, metal, biological, and household waste. Over 1,000,000 tonnes of this waste
- [800,000 tonnes: Walk 2: Stanway Quarry: Rewilding with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/800000-tonnes-walking-tour-2-creekmouth/) - In this second visit of our series, we will be going to one of the largest active landfill sites in the county. This landfill occupies the void left by the former Stanway Quarry and can hold up to 23 million cubic metres of waste. During our walk around the site, we will see rubbish in
- [800,000 tonnes: Walk 3, Rainham: Plastic with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/800000-tonnes-walking-tour-3-rainham/) - The third visit in our series will look at the work of Veolia Rainham, a Plastics Recovery Facility adjacent to Rainham Marshes along the Thames Estuary, looking at how waste management’s infrastructure mingles with natural landscapes. Veolia Rainham is one of the most technologically advanced PRFs in the country, sat next to the RSPB wildlife
- [800,000 tonnes: Walk 5, Thurrock: Rewilding with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/800000-tonnes-walking-tour-4-rewilding/) - In this visit, 800,000 tonnes ventures to a large landfill site in East Tilbury. A former quarry, this site has been renovated to hold up to 2.1 million cubic metres of waste, specialising accepting soil, rubble, and gravel. Much of this is being used to raise the surrounding land as a flood defence. This initiative follows
- [In My Room](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-my-room/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch event of 'In My Room', Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings' first solo institutional exhibition opening Saturday 15 February from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. As a new body of work, ‘In My Room’ develops the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and
- [Exhibition Tour: In My Room](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-in-my-room/) - Please join Katharine Stout, Director of Focal Point Gallery for a guided tour of the works in the exhibition ‘In My Room’. Katharine will explore the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This is part of Southend’s #LastThursdayLates programme. Find out more about the exhibition here.
- [800,000 tonnes: Walk 4, Tilbury: Tilbury Green Power Plant with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/800000-tonnes-walk-4-tilbury-tilbury-green-power-plant/) - In this visit, we’ll be going to Tilbury’s new biomass plant. This site is the most recent addition to Tilbury’s long history of generating power for the rest of Essex. Until 2019, the area was home to coal and oil power stations whose famous chimneys were visible for miles around. Since the station’s demolition, Tilbury’s
- [Things You Never Get Taught #2](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-2/) - ‘Things You Never Get Taught…’ is a new series of free development workshops for creative practitioners, arts organisations and those who want to develop their cultural offer. This series will focus on essential skills that might be overlooked by formal arts education, such as writing funding applications and developing a career as a creative practitioner.
- [Fashion/Remade Online](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fashion-remade/) - Rescheduled from earlier in the year, join us online on Focal Point Gallery's Instagram page for three conversations and practical activities centred on sustainability and the fashion industry, led by Sara Brown and Ella Sisso of Eighty Eight Podcast, artist Philippa Stewart and zine-maker Lu Williams. Tuesday 14 July, 7pm: Ethical Clothing with Ella Sisso
- [Things to Pass the Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-to-pass-the-day/) - With longer days at home comes the inevitable task to keep ourselves engaged and active. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing a number of highlights from the Focal Point Gallery programme, featured here and updated on a weekly basis. 'Park Explorations', Kieren Reed In 2016 artist Kieren Reed was commissioned by Focal
- [Why Don't You Make A Ferment?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-make-a-ferment/) - We’re pleased to present the second episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Art Activity Pack](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-activity-pack/) - We are excited to launch our art activity pack by local artists Louise Ayre and Philippa Stewart. This pack is an invitation to take part in an art activity within your own home. We hope you will find the activities a fun, relaxing and engaging thing to do, whatever your age or ability. These art
- [Why Don't You Make A Zine?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-make-a-zine/) - We’re pleased to present the third episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Instagram Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/instagram-takeover/) - With the current closure of Focal Point Gallery along with Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings' solo exhibition 'In My Room', the artists will takeover the @focalpointgallery instagram for one week from Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May. During this time, they will give a unique insight into the practical steps that go into producing an
- [In My Room: Art Activity Pack](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-my-room-art-activity-pack/) - We are excited to launch the 'In My Room' art activity pack designed by artist and FPG Start Coordinator Lu Williams. This pack explores the concepts and imagery of the current exhibition by Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, offering ways to engage with it in your own home. It is aimed at young people of
- [Why Don't You Sprout Some Seeds Or Go Foraging?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-sprout-some-seeds-or-go-foraging/) - We’re pleased to present the fourth episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Why Don't You Make An Air Dry Clay Ornament?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-make-an-air-dry-clay-ornament/) - We’re pleased to present the fifth episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Call For Submissions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/call-for-submissions/) - Big Screen Southend is looking for artists, filmmakers or individuals creating moving image works for its future programme. Situated adjacent to Focal Point Gallery in the centre of Southend-on-Sea, this permanent outdoor video facility presents a unique and exciting context for the presentation of moving image at the centre of a public square. Big Screen
- [Why Don't You Try Laughter Yoga?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-try-laughter-yoga/) - We’re pleased to present the seventh episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Why Don't You Grow Your Own?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-grow-your-own/) - We’re pleased to present the sixth episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Why Don't You Make An Image Out Of Simple Data?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-make-an-image-out-of-simple-data/) - We’re pleased to present the eighth episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [TOMA Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/toma-takeover-2/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an online programme of artist moving image made by participants of The Other MA (TOMA). Previewed here on the FPG website for the first time, this project was initially programmed before the COVID 19 pandemic, conceived as a temporary takeover of Big Screen Southend. In place of this,
- [Call out for new members on FPG Advisory Group aged 18 to 24](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/call-out-for-new-members-on-fpg-advisory-group-aged-18-to-24/) - Focal Point Gallery (FPG) is looking for people aged between 18 and 24 to join a group that advises the gallery on its future direction, ensuring it continues to be relevant for all communities in Southend. This is an exciting time to get involved in the organisation as we are expanding in the coming years
- [Things You Never Got Taught #7 Freelancing and The Coven](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-7-freelancing-and-the-coven/) - In this instalment of Things You Never Got Taught we talk freelancing. A long-established mode of working in the creative sector, yet still shrouded in mystery. It is no secret that women and marginalized genders are at a disadvantage in the workplace and with all the apparent laws and policy making slow progress, freelancing is
- [Artist's Talk](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artists-talk-2/) - Listen to Mary Mattingly discuss her artistic practice and journey to producing ‘Vanishing Point’, her commission for Estuary 2021 that considers how the plant life of the Thames Estuary has evolved and responded to a changing climate over millions of years, and how this knowledge might be used as a prediction for a nearing future.
- [Things You Never Got Taught #6…Unpicking Proposals](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taughtunpicking-proposals-6/) - This isn’t a how to, more of a what, why and where. Proposal is a word that comes loaded with preconception and fear for many artists, leaving us head in hands ‘What do they want from me?’. Let’s go back to the start, proposals don’t just serve to seek funding, or a place to exhibit,
- [Things You Never Got Taught #5 Up Your Grant Game Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-5-up-your-grant-game-workshops/) - Following on from Things You Never Got Taught #5 Up Your Grant Game with Mandy Fowler, an independent consultant, curator and producer in visual arts. We are delighted that she will be leading two in depth free workshops running consecutively on Thursday 25 February and Thursday 4 March, 5.00pm to 7.00pm. This will be a chance
- [Things You Never Got Taught #5 Up Your Grant Game](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-got-taught-5-up-your-grant-game/) - Join us for the fifth event in our 'Things You Never Get Taught' series. This talk will provide an overview to Arts Council England's Developing Your Creative Practice grant and the difference to the National Lottery Project Grants. We will also discuss access support and provisions for neurodivergent and disabled artists. Taking place online, this
- [Things You Never Get Taught #4 The Dreaded Self-Assessment](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-4-the-dreaded-self-assessment/) - With January 31 ready to loom large after the holiday festivities, you might find yourself in a panic, valiantly scrabbling through your receipts and invoices to get your self-assessment done in time. Or maybe you’ve only just registered as self-employed and are staring in wide eyed horror at the thought of a tax return. We
- [3 + 3 = 7](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/3-3-7-2/) - Following on from Leyla Pillai's deep listening online event ‘3 + 3 = 7’ in November, Pillai will present a second online event on Saturday 16 January. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings, Pillai will transport participants to otherworldly places through immersive assemblages of sonic text, spoken word, poetic inscriptions and music that will
- [We Are Opposite Like That](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/we-are-opposite-like-that/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a series of live one-to-one readings with artist Himali Singh Soin. Reading from her new book, we are opposite like that, participants are invited to join Soin who will read a passage to them via a remote video link. In the manner of a long-distance tarot reading, the
- [99 by 19 Let’s Create Packs](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/99-by-19-lets-create-packs/) - We are excited to launch a new activity pack as part Arts Council England’s ‘Let’s Create Packs' scheme. This pack allows children and young people to have a taster of 99 by 19 and complete 4 items on the list to get a head start! The items listed can be completed individually or as a
- [Things You Never Get Taught #3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/things-you-never-get-taught-3/) - Is anyone ever prepared for a pandemic? Not really, as times change so quickly it’s really impossible to be. What we can do is try to support those most at risk, in relation to their health, well-being and financial circumstance. With that in mind we have pulled together some resources you may find useful, both
- [In Conversation: Podcast](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-podcast/) - Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings are joined in conversation by writer and editor Rosanna Mclaughlin to discuss their show and practice in this pre-recorded podcast. From their experience of filming at Bar Jester and Core Club, to producing a new fresco based on Andrea Mantegna's 'The Flagellation', this podcast provides an insight into the research
- [Why Don't You Make Your Own Paper?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-make-your-own-paper/) - We’re pleased to present the ninth episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.
- [Imagining a New Future](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/imagining-a-new-future/) - Focal Point Gallery is inviting people of the town to tell us about their activities or new experiences during lockdown and to submit ideas for imagining a new positive future for Southend. We invite you to send in your ideas in the form of a drawing, photo or video. You don’t have to be good
- [Exhibition Tour: To Dream Effectively](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-to-dream-effectively/) - Please join assistant curators Laura Bowen and James Ravinet for two free guided tours 6.00pm and at 6.45pm of the exhibition 'To Dream Effectively'. Artists: Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle), Diann Bauer, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Caspar Heinemann, Leyla Pillai, Tabita Rezaire, Himali Singh Soin, Emilija Škarnulytė, Rosie Grace Ward ‘To Dream Effectively’
- [Reading Group 1 'The Bees' by Laline Paull, led by Ruth Jones](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-group-1-the-bees-by-laline-paull-led-by-ruth-jones/) - Ruth Jones will lead the group through discussion of The Bees by Laline Paull. Laline Paull approaches our current ecological concerns through the eyes of a single bee in a hive. Beautifully descriptive of the hierarchy and functioning of the beehive, but told with a human parallel, the nearly all female society of bees provides
- [Reading Group 2: 'Parable of the Sower' by Octavia E. Butler, led by Holly Firmin](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-group-2-parable-of-the-sower-by-octavia-e-butler-led-by-holly-firmin/) - Holly Firmin will lead an online group through a discussion of The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Set in the 2020s, Octavia E. Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' explores the aftermath of capitalism's collapse and climate change. After she is forced to flee her gated village, hyper-empath Lauren Oya Olamina sets out
- [3 + 3 = 7](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/3-3-7/) - Leyla Pillai will present an online deep listening event ‘3 + 3 = 7’ on Saturday 21 November. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's writings, Pillai will transport participants to otherworldly places through immersive assemblages of sonic text, spoken word, and poetic inscriptions that will be presented as an invocational unfolding through seven vignettes. The audience
- [In Movement Be Like Clouds & Water](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/leyla-pillai/) - We are pleased to present Leyla Pillai's selected playlist, inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's writings. Please see the full track list below. Leyla Pillai is an artist, writer and researcher, currently producing and presenting Who's That Girl?, a radio-art show spanning seven years in residence on NTS Radio. Who's That Girl? is a question in flux, explored monthly
- [Contemporary Elders Coffee Morning](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-coffee-morning-2/) - We are delighted to invite you to our second Contemporary Elders coffee morning on Tuesday 10 November at 10.30am to 12.00pm. Contemporary Elders is for anyone over the age of 60. Whether you are new to contemporary art or a regular gallery attendee, you will be very welcome. You can attend on your own, with
- [To Dream Effectively](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/to-dream-effectively-2/) - Artists: Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle), Diann Bauer, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Caspar Heinemann, Leyla Pillai, Tabita Rezaire, Himali Singh Soin, Emilija Škarnulytė, Rosie Grace Ward This online tour introduces the works exhibited in 'To Dream Effectively', through insights into the artists' narratives and visualisations of speculative futures. These offer powerful alternatives
- [In Conversation: Podcast](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation-podcast-rosie-grace-ward/) - Podcast edited by Gabrielle Milanese. Rosie Grace Ward is joined in conversation with writer, artist and performer Sophie Sleigh Johnson and Victoria Rathmill, Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Southend Museums to discuss her commissions 'Arrowcut Slab (colliding not thriving)' and her new commission in the group exhibition 'To Dream Effectively' in this pre-recorded podcast. Victoria Rathmill
- [Contemporary Elders Coffee Morning](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/contemporary-elders-coffee-morning/) - We are delighted to invite you to our Contemporary Elders coffee morning on Tuesday 29 September at 11.00am to 12.30pm at Focal Point Gallery. Contemporary Elders is for anyone over the age of 60. Whether you are new to contemporary art or a regular gallery attendee, you will be very welcome. You can attend on
- [To Dream Effectively](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/to-dream-effectively/) - We are delighted to invite you to a special opening event for ‘To Dream Effectively’. The opening will take place at Focal Point Gallery, Big Screen Southend and Southend High Street on Saturday 12 September, from 12.00pm to 7.00pm. To ensure your safety and well-being, we will be limiting visitors in the gallery space, which is
- [Why Don't You Crochet a Granny Square or Two?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/why-dont-you-crochet-a-granny-square-or-two/) - We're pleased to present the first episode in our bi-weekly online programme, 'Why Don't You', inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?, Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from
- [YOU ARE NOT ALONE](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/you-are-not-alone/) - ‘YOU ARE NOT ALONE’ was a temporary commission by Southend-based artist Scottee that marked fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. Installed on both sides of the railway bridge spanning the width of Southend High Street, the commission was visible for half a mile along the town’s main thoroughfare. Find out more about the commission
- [Maximum Overdrive Takeover Within](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/maximum-overdrive-takeover-within/) - Thomas Lock presents a live score with musicians Manuela Barczewski and Rudi Schmidt to accompany new video works viewable across multiple screens within the gallery and Elmer Square. An additional performance will also take place with sound artist Tom Richards in response to the video works by Lock. Richards has built his own idiosyncratic modular
- [Temporary Closure](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/temporary-closure/) - Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has decided that its key culture and leisure venues will be closed with immediate effect in response to reducing the spread of coronavirus. From today, Focal Point Gallery will close, as will Southend Pier and visitor information centre, Prittlewell Priory and visitor centre, Central Museum, Beecroft Gallery, Southchurch Hall and all Library
- [Digifest: Photography Workshops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digital-photography-workshop/) - As part of Digifest, Focal Point Gallery will be hosting a series of digital photography workshops. The sessions will explore macro photography and the creation of cyanotypes using indoor UV lamps. We have a number of DSLR cameras available to use in pairs or bring your own. Led by local artist Laurence Harding, the sessions are open to participants
- [Digifest 2020](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-2020/) - ‘Digifest’ is a month long celebration of digital arts, featuring workshops, talks and screenings, to enabling creative ways of using technology. Organised by Focal Point Gallery and led entirely by artists, the programme looks to promote skills developing in emerging creative industry practices such as film making, digital photography, animation and games development through creative
- [Winter FLASH sale!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/winter-flash-sale/) - Enjoy 50% off selected Focal Point Gallery artists' editions until 15 December, including works from Volker Eichelmann, Mark Fell, Catherine Hyland, Scott King, Alexandra Leykauf, Hilary Lloyd, Clunie Reid and Bridget Smith. You can also enjoy 25% off selected publications including Mike Nelson’s ‘AN INVOCATION’, Radical ESSEX, ‘Let’s Take Back Our Space’ and ‘Refrain/One Love
- [Exhibition Tour: ‘The World After’](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-the-world-after/) - Free exhibition tour of ‘The World After’ with Assistant Curator James Ravinet, followed by a tour of ‘Wild Estuary’ at Southend Museums. ‘The World After’ is a newly commissioned work and exhibition by artist David Blandy. Comprised of a film, installation and game, ‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines a world after
- [First There is a Mountain](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/first-there-is-a-mountain/) - First There is a Mountain is a nationwide participatory event taking place over summer 2019, starting on 31 March and ending on 27 October at Southend-on-Sea. At each location participants will sculpt beaches into thousands of miniature sand mountain ranges to form ephemeral micro-geologies. After travelling to venues right around the coast, our event in
- [Day Tripper Printmaking Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/day-tripper-printmaking-workshop/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to offer a free afternoon of printmaking in response to our current exhibition, 'Day Tripper', with Charlotte Hamilton and Natasha Carter, focused towards women, trans and non-binary participants of all ages. Participants will be encouraged to explore ideas using a variety of methods including screen printing and nail polish. This
- [Exhibition Tour](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour/) - Join artist John Wonnacott for a guided tour of his current solo exhibition, ‘The Estuary’, followed by a short Q&A session. As the first exhibition in his hometown of Southend-on-Sea, ‘The Estuary’ brings together works featuring the artist’s most viewed subject; the changing situation of the Thames Estuary, from the fashions and frolics of its
- [Family Arts Day: Summer Beginnings](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/family-arts-day-summer-beginnings/) - Photographer Laurence Harding and visual artist and founder of TOMA Emma Edmondson will lead workshops referencing John Wonnacott's exhibition 'The Estuary', guiding you to create collaborative family artworks and discover new skills making sun-prints and plaster casting. Free drop-in workshops for all ages, however children must be accompanied by an adult. Book your place in
- [In Conversation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/in-conversation/) - John Wonnacott will be joined in conversation with curator Lynda Morris and Charles Saumarez Smith to discuss his current Focal Point Gallery exhibition, 'The Estuary, and the accompanying publication. Tickets are £4.00 per person, with concessions available. Please book your ticket here. Professor Lynda Morris worked at Norwich School of Art with John Wonnacott from
- [The Estuary](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-estuary/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch event of John Wonnacott, 'The Estuary', opening Saturday 4 May from 6.00 to 8.00pm. Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of British artist John Wonnacott, curated with Lynda Morris. Having lived and worked from his studio in Southend-on-Sea
- [Cealdwiellla](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/cealdwiellla/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to host Cealdwiellla, an intensive research project and expedition into the futures and pasts of the ancient Running Well in Runwell, Essex, by New Noveta – Ellen Freed and Keira Fox – in collaboration with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. The work is a new iteration on Essex soil of the original that took
- [Make A World: Make a Game](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/make-a-world-make-a-game/) - Come, make and play a new tabletop roleplaying fantasy game in the style of Dungeons and Dragons with artist David Blandy, inspired by the wildlife and landscape of Canvey Island. We will design monstrous beings to populate our world, draw maps for our adventures, imagine different civilisations and new forms of life. Drawing, painting, writing
- [Catherine Christer Hennix](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/catherine-christer-hennix/) - Catherine Christer Hennix was among the Swedish pioneers experimenting with main-frame computer generated composite sound wave forms in the 60s and 70s, and was a key protagonist in the Downtown School along with La Monte Young and Henry Flynt. In this rare UK presentation, Hennix will discuss her work using drone sounds and the impact
- [Experimental Compositions with Yorkshire Sound Women Network](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/experimental-compositions-with-yorkshire-sound-women-network/) - As part of the events programme for the current exhibition, Mark Fell, 'The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent', Focal Point Gallery are delighted to present a two-part workshop on Experimental Compositions led by Yorkshire Sound Women Network artists; Eleanor Cully and Kelly Jayne Jones. Open to all women, female-identifying, non-binary and gender non-conforming people. The workshops
- [Yorkshire Sound Women Network: Live Performance](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/yorkshire-sound-women-network-live-performance/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a live performance by Yorkshire Sound Women Network artists Eleanor Cully and Kelly Jayne Jones. The event marks the culmination of their week-long residency in Southend-on-Sea, based at Chalkwell Hall. The performance forms part of the events programme for Focal Point Gallery's current exhibition, Mark Fell, 'The Concept of
- [Family Arts Activities with Yorkshire Sound Women Network](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/family-arts-activities-with-yorkshire-sound-womens-network/) - Have fun with sound! A family workshop led by Kelly Jayne Jones & Eleanor Cully as part of their week long residency at Chalkwell Hall. All ages are welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Places can be booked in person on the day; feel free to drop in at any point during
- [Live Studio Recording: Inventing the Landscape](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/live-studio-recording-inventing-the-landscape/) - Live Studio Recording: Inventing the Landscape The Old Public Reading Room Southend Central Museum A programme of talks, performance and literature reflecting on the hidden and imagined landscapes of Essex. For this live film recording, artist Alexandra Leykauf will be joined by Melissa Gordon and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson as well as actors from E15 Acting School
- [Get Out and Push!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/get-out-and-push/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch of 'Get Out and Push!' on Saturday 12 May, 6.00pm to 8.00pm. An after-party will take place at Twenty One from 8.00pm onwards. Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present 'Get Out and Push!', an exhibition that begins with the British Free Cinema film movement
- [Maximum Overdrive Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/maximum-overdrive-takeover/) - Focal Point Gallery presents a gallery takeover by artist Nina Wakeford. This closing event for the current exhibition ‘Maximum Overdrive’ includes performance, film, and the launch of a new publication celebrating the culture and legacy of the Black Widows women-only motorbike group, active between 1988 and 1995. Comprised of diverse elements, the event will include
- [Is Southend Homophobic?' LGBTQI* History Month](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/is-southend-homophobic-lgbtqi-history-month/) - To mark LGBTQI* History Month we are inviting everyone into the gallery for a Saturday night takeaway! Over food we will ask what life is like for LGBTQI* people in Essex, question if our town is homophobic and/or transphobic and attempt to answer some questions you have about the LGBTQI* community. Local artist Scottee will
- [Maximum Overdrive Takeover Sterling Void](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/maximum-overdrive-takeover-sterling-void/) - Focal Point Gallery presents Sterling Void, a gallery takeover by artist Lucy Woodhouse. This one-off event will respond to the technological apparatus in FPG's current exhibition 'Maximum Overdrive', which is installed in both the gallery and Elmer Square. Lucy Woodhouse’s ongoing work in the exhibition is based on a zine/graphic novel from 1982 by Eddie
- [Nawki](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/nawki/) - NAWKI or ‘not as we know it’ initiated last year by 12ø collective began with the intention to experiment with the art fair model, each iteration shifting its focus to a different framework with a selection of arts organisation/spaces across the UK invited to participate, resulting in a cross organisation collaborative outcome. ​ This year
- [Symposium: Food Cultures: A Food Plan for Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/symposium-food-cultures-a-food-plan-for-southend/) - Club Critical Theory and Guests Present Food Cultures: A Food Plan for Southend To what extent is the production and consumption of food central to how we experience the place we live in? How is the food we eat related to wider economic, social and cultural policies? Find out about local food initiatives and ethical
- [Every Thought There Ever Was](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-every-thought-there-ever-was/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery for the launch of Lindsay Seers 'Every Thought There Ever Was' on Saturday 8 September, 6.00pm to 9.00pm. Drawing on philosophical ideas and scientific research, this ambitious project by UK based artist Lindsay Seers considers historical representations of schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition achieved through the
- [Artist Talk](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artists-talk/) - An opportunity to hear Lindsay Seers talk through her practice and journey to the making of the current installation 'Every Thought There Ever Was', an ambitious project which considers historical representations of schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition achieved through the use of virtual reality. Lindsay's talk will be followed by a Q&A. Focal
- [Yoga for mind, body and soul](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/yoga-for-mind-body-and-soul/) - A series of six funded yoga sessions for those who would benefit from this restorative practice. Particularly encouraged are those who have never experienced yoga and would like to explore its wellbeing benefits. Classes will be led by Paula Mayura and experienced tutors from the Mayura studios. Spaces are extremely limited and will be allocated
- [Artist Workshop](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/workshops-with-artist-sally-anne-ashley/) - Over the course of five sessions, participants will be guided through a range of expressive painting techniques with artist Sally Anne Ashley, allowing them to open up and explore their creativity against the context of our current exhibition 'Every Thought There Ever Was'. The aim of these workshops is to allow participants to let go
- [HEDtalks: Mind and Body](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/hedtalks/) - South East and Central Essex Mind hold another in the series of their talk initiative, HEDtalks. The event seeks to open up thought and ideas, and to challenge perceptions about taboo topics relating to mental wellbeing. It is not a lecture for professionals, but a conversation for individuals to listen, learn, discuss and reflect. In
- [Family Arts Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/family-arts-day-2/) - Half Term Family Workshops Sessions: 1.00pm to 4.00pm FREE To coincide with ‘Exhibition for Go-Getters’, visual artists Connie Gallagher and Rachel McGivern will lead sessions referencing the exhibition. Using drawing, collage, and card, the artists will help you create a sci-fi landscape and family artwork. These are free drop-in workshops for all ages (children must
- [NY Art Book Fair](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/ny-art-book-fair/) - Focal Point Gallery will be participating in the fifth annual New York Art Book Fair between 5 and 7 November 2010. Organised by Printed Matter, the fair will take place at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, New York. The event is free, open to the public, and hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian
- [Clunie Reid in conversation with Paul Buck](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/clunie-reid-in-conversation-with-paul-buck/) - Clunie Reid will be in conversation with the writer and editor Paul Buck on Wednesday 10 June, 6pm to 7.30pm, at The Pod, South East Essex College Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1ND. South East Essex College is situated directly opposite Southend Central Railway Station. Booking is essential on 01702 534108.
- [Anna Parkina Book Launch and Performance](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/anna-parkina-book-launch-and-performance/) - A book launch for Biryulevo, published by onestar press, will take place at The Railway Hotel, Clifftown Studios, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1AJ, between 4pm and 6pm on Saturday 18 September 2010. This event will include a performance by Anna Parkina at 5.00pm. After the book launch, music selected by the artist will be played in the
- [LONGMEG, Mark Leckey, Johnny Like and special guests.](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/longmeg-mark-leckey-johnny-like-and-special-guests/) - The launch party for ‘More Nudes in Colour, Southend' - Keith Farquhar’s new series of temporary public sculpture commissioned for Southend’s cliff gardens; the former site of ‘Never Never Land’ - will take place at The Ballroom Suite, First Floor, The Royal Hotel, 1 High St, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1JE between 6.00pm and 12.00am on
- [Different Perspectives](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/different-perspectives/) - A talk with Peter Osborne and Paul Willemen. Organised by Petra Bauer and Dan Kidner as part of ‘Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory in the 1970s and 80s’. Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS.
- [‘Infermental’ Gallery Talk](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/infermental-gallery-talk/) - This gallery talk provides a chance to hear the curator Dan Kidner and artist James Richards discuss the legacy of Infermental; ‘the first international magazine on videocassettes’ initiated by Hungarian Filmmaker, Gábor Bódy in 1981. Kidner and Richards will also address the contemporary significance of their exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, which is the first survey
- [London Women’s Film Group](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/london-womens-film-group/) - Screening of Women of the Rhondda(1973) and The Amazing Equal Pay Show (1974) by the London Women’s Film Group. Discussion with Julia Knight. Organised by Petra Bauer and Dan Kidner as part of ‘Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory in the 1970s and 80s’. Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS.
- [Performance by Tris Vonna-Michell](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/performance-by-tris-vonna-michell/) - In the final week of Tris Vonna-Michell's exhibition, a finissage performance will take place between 7.00pm and 9.30pm on Monday 15 March 2010 at the home of the newly refurbished East 15 Acting School – a building the artist visited as a child for martial arts lessons – at Clifftown Studios, Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea SS1
- [Holocaust Memorial Day Film Screening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/holocaust-memorial-day-film-screening/) - A chance to see two films selected by Dan Kidner, Focal Point Gallery Residency Programme Manager 2009/2010. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) by Harun Farocki and Night and Fog(1955) by Alain Resnais will be shown on the 65th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day. The latter film contains images that may upset or cause
- [Mike Sperlinger in conversation with David Campany](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/mike-sperlinger-in-conversation-with-david-campany/) - This gallery talk provides a chance to hear Mike Sperlinger, the curator of 'Let's Take Back Our Space', discuss his exhibition with the writer David Campany. The event is open to the general public and is free. Mike Sperlinger is assistant director of LUX, London. As as a freelance writer he has contributed to publications
- [Film Screening by Erik Blinderman at 'Village Green', a one day festival in Chalkwell Park](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-by-erik-blinderman-at-village-green-a-one-day-festival-in-chalkwell-park/) - This event includes the screening of two films chosen by Erik Blinderman for the 'Village Green' one day festival, held in Westciffe-on-Sea’s Chalkwell Park. The first picture is My Place (1985) by Marcel Lozinski, which shows the working life of the staff at a hotel in Sopot, while the second is Jean Luc Godard’s British Sounds (1970), a political
- [Milly Thompson and EASTvideo 2009](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/milly-thompson-and-eastvideo-2009/) - Milly Thompson will present a series of films connected to her exhibition ‘Savoir Faire’ between 12pm and 2pm on Wednesday 15 July at South East Essex College. This short programme will include Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978), clips from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and her own short DVD Basking in the melodrama of my own self-consciousness (2008). In
- [Cinema Action](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/cinema-action/) - Screening of So That You Can Live(1982) by Cinema Action and Year of the Beaver (1985) by Steve Sprung/Poster Collective. Discussion with Alex Sainsbury and Steve Sprung. Organised by Petra Bauer and Dan Kidner as part of ‘Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory in the 1970s and 80s’. Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1
- [Book Launch for New Wooabbeleri and Let's Take Back Our Space](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/book-launch-for-new-wooabbeleri-and-lets-take-back-our-space/) - A midsummer day launch will take place between 6.00pm and 8.00pm on Thursday 24 June at Koenig Books on Charing Cross Road, for two new books published by Focal Point Gallery. Let's Take Back Our Space, which contains texts by Mike Sperlinger, Adrian Rifkin and Marina Vishmidt, and New Wooabbeleri by Stuart Whipps will be available at a
- [The Empty Plan](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-empty-plan-screening-and-artists-talk-with-writer-melissa-gronlund/) - The world premiere of Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ film The Empty Plan. Following the screening, the artists will discuss their work in the gallery at 3.30pm with writer Melissa Gronlund.
- [Dummy by The Children of Jalun](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/dummy-by-the-children-of-jalun/) - The Children of Jalun will perform Dummy at The Railway Hotel, Clifftown Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1AJ, between 4pm and 8pm on Saturday 20 November 2010. This is a live event in which Katie Barrington, Abi Bryant, Owen Chapman, and Christian Tilt will ‘parrot’ texts by artists including Sue de Beer, Ryan Trecartin, Liam Gillick, Mark Titchner,
- [Curators' Talk: Saim Demircan and Duncan Wooldridge](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/curators-talk-saim-demircan-and-duncan-wooldridge/) - This gallery talk provides a chance to hear the curator of ‘Anti-Photography’ Duncan Wooldridge discuss his exhibition, and Saim Demircan, Focal Point Gallery’s curator of offsite projects examine Keith Farquhar’s temporary public sculpture, which is currently installed at Southend’s cliff gardens. The event will start at Focal Point Gallery at 1.30pm and continue with a
- [Francis Thorburn and The Gut Club](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/francis-thorburn-and-the-gut-club/) - Two actions will take place at the preview of 'Orbitecture II'. Francis Thorburn will perform a ritual at the opening ceremony at 2.00pm, while The Gut Club will serve seafood caught locally in Southend-on-Sea at 3.00pm. This event is free and all are welcome.
- [Man Like Me live at The Sunrooms](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/man-like-me-live-at-the-sunrooms/) - The launch party for ‘Orbitecture II: Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent' will take place between 4.00pm and 6.00pm on Saturday 16 April 2011 at The Sunrooms in Southend. Man Like Me will perform live at 5.00pm. The evening will continue with DJ sets by special guests. This event is
- [Curators' Talk: Arnaud Desjardin and Cedar Lewisohn](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/curators-talk-arnaud-desjardin-and-cedar-lewisohn/) - This gallery talk will provide a chance to hear the curator Cedar Lewisohn discuss the eclectic exhibition 'Orbitecture II', and Arnaud Desjardin examine his project on artists' books 'Please do not place drinks on vitrines or books'. The events will start at Focal Point Gallery at 1.30pm, is open to the public and is free.
- [Alice Theobald](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/alice-theobald-in-the-bear-pit/) - During her three week residency in ‘The Bear Pit’, Alice Theobald will draw from research on ‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ a term coined by critic Martin Esslin in a 1960 essay. The term references a style of theatre associated with the work of a group of playwrights in the late 1950s, which cohered with
- [Our Sun and the True Sun](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/lucky-dragons-in-the-bear-pit-our-sun-and-the-true-sun/) - Lucky Dragons’ three-week residency at Focal Point Gallery will make use of ‘The Bear Pit’ as an experimental site for the study of long distance communication, co-location, and time-shifting. Streaming images, sound, and language in an array of feedback loops across a variety of scales, Fischbeck and Rara will open a direct channel of communication
- [Launch for Morag Keil's 'Public Hanging'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/launch-for-morag-keils-public-hanging/) - Reading by Cally Spooner, and DJ sets by Lina and L.A.F. Tebano. Following the exhibition opening at Focal Point Gallery, a live event will take place at The Royal Hotel on the corner of Southend High Street and the town's seafront. Cally Spooner will give a reading at 6.30pm. The event is free and all
- [‘Public Hanging’ talk and guided tour by Dorothea Jendricke](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/public-hanging-talk-and-guided-tour-by-dorothea-jendricke/) - Dorothea Jendricke, Curator and Director at NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) in Aachen, Germany will discuss Morag Keil’s ‘Public Hanging’. The talk will start at the site of Keil’s temporary public project at The Royals Shopping Centre on the corner of Southend High Street and Pier Hill.
- [Curators’ Talk: Saim Demircan and Andrew Hunt](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/curators-talk-saim-demircan-and-andrew-hunt/) - This talk provides the chance to hear staff from Focal Point Gallery discuss the organisation’s two summer projects. Andrew Hunt, gallery director and curator of ‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’ will discuss the exhibition in the gallery, while Saim Demircan Focal Point Gallery’s curator of offsite projects will examine Morag Keil’s temporary wall-based back-lit
- [‘Public Hanging’ talk and guided tour by Kate Allen](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/public-hanging-talk-and-guided-tour-by-kate-allen/) - Kate Allen is a London-based artist, whose current research around female artists associated with the Vorticist movement in Britain will form the basis of her talk in Southend. Allen’s discussion will start at the site of Keil’s temporary public project at The Royals Shopping Centre on the corner of Southend High Street and Pier Hill.
- [‘Public Hanging’ talk and guided tour by Victoria Camblin](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/public-hanging-talk-and-guided-tour-by-victoria-camblin/) - Victoria Camblin is a writer and an editor of 032c magazine. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Cambridge University specialising in Georges Bataille. Camblin’s discussion will start at the site of Keil’s temporary public project at The Royals Shopping Centre on the corner of Southend High Street and Pier Hill.
- [Launch of Outrageous Fortune Tarot Deck / Slimvolume Poster Publication 2008 to 2011](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/launch-of-outrageous-fortune-tarot-deck-slimvolume-poster-publication-2008-to-2011/) - This event will take place at the Hayward Gallery in London to launch a new deck of tarot cards taken from the work in the exhibition 'Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’. The event is open to the general public and is free.
- [Hannah Perry / Launch for John Russell's 'Angel of History / I Can See for Miles'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/hannah-perry-launch-for-john-russells-angel-of-history-i-can-see-for-miles/) - The launch of ‘Angel of History: I Can See for Miles’ – John Russell’s new site-specific temporary public artwork produced for the exterior of the railway bridge that spans Southend-on-Sea’s pedestrianised high street – will take place at The Sunrooms, 20-21 Market Place, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1DA between 4.00pm and 7.00pm on Saturday 10 September.
- ['Painting and Performance', a presentation by Catherine Wood](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/painting-and-performance-a-presentation-by-catherine-wood/) - Catherine Wood, Curator of Contemporary Art / Performance at Tate Modern, will discuss the relationship between painting and performance since the 1950s, the collaborative elements of contemporary art practice and artist Kai Althoff's work.
- [Curator’s talk by Saim Demircan](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/curators-talk-by-saim-demircan/) - This talk provides the chance to hear the curator of ‘Kaiki’, Saim Demircan, discuss the exhibition and expand upon the recent chronology of Kai Althoff’s diverse projects.
- [London launch for A Detour Around Infermental](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/london-launch-for-a-detour-around-infermental/) - his event will take place at X Marks the Bökship in London and launch the new book A Detour Around Infermental, published by Focal Point Gallery, which examines the historical legacy and contemporary relevance of the video archive Infermental, the ‘first international magazine on videocassettes’ initiated by Hungarian Filmmaker Gábor Bódy in 1981. This publication follows the
- [FPG Film Club, Southend Film Festival: 'Blade Runner](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-southend-film-festival-blade-runner/) - 'Blade Runner', 1982. Directed by Ridley Scott. In 2019, ex-detective Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to track down and eliminate a team of humanoid androids that have escaped from an outer space mining colony in a bid to find their creator. Based on the novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ by Phillip
- [FPG Film Club, Southend Film Festival: 'Maximum Overdrive](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-southend-film-festival-maximum-overdrive/) - 'Maximum Overdrive', 1986. Directed by Stephen King. Maximum Overdrive is the first and only film written and directed by best-selling novelist Stephen King. After a freak cosmic occurrence, machines come alive and turn against their human-makers. Described by King himself as a ‘moron movie’, this so-bad-it’s-good sci-fi/horror/comedy is accompanied by with a soundtrack by AC/DC.
- [FPG Film Club, Southend Film Festival: 'Tetsuo: The Iron Man](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-southend-film-festival-tetsuo-the-iron-man/) - 'Tetsuo: The Iron Man', 1989. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. Tetsuo: The Iron Man was the first in the cyberpunk horror film series from cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto. Filmed in black and white 16mm with an underground production style, the film depicts a gruesome and unforgiving tale of a businessman who evolves into a strange hybrid
- [Opening: Volker Eichelmann 'On Peacock Island' and 'EYECATCHER](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/opening-volker-eichelmann-on-peacock-island-and-eyecatcher/) - Join us for the launch event of 'On Peacock Island', the first major solo exhibition of the German artist Volker Eichelmann, featuring the work of Stephen Tennant. The event will also coincide with the launch of 'EYECATCHER', a programme of moving image works on Big Screen Southend. A limited number of half-price return train tickets
- [Paul Anthony Harford, Alexandra Leykauf, 'EYECATCHER III](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/paul-anthony-harford-alexandra-leykauf-eyecatcher-iii/) - Please join us at Focal Point Gallery and Twenty One for the launch of: Paul Anthony Harford 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' and Alexandra Leykauf 'Caprona' In partnership with Artist Research Centre 6.00pm to 8.00pm at Focal Point Gallery 8.00pm to 11.00pm at Twenty One Southend This event will also coincide with the launch of the
- [Maximum Overdrive](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/opening-maximum-overdrive/) - Julia Crabtree and William Evans, Thomas Lock, Nina Wakeford, Lucy Woodhouse. Join us for the launch event of 'Maximum Overdrive', an ambitious project that seeks to connect the gallery space to its immediate social context at Elmer Square. Artists, practitioners and community groups are invited to activate set perimeters designed by the gallery, mirroring the
- ['Jean Genet and Marc Camille Chaimowicz', a presentation by Roger Cook](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/jean-genet-and-marc-camille-chaimowicz-a-presentation-by-roger-cook/) - Writer and academic Roger Cook will discuss the contemporary relevance of Jean Genet, the writer’s impact on the work of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and the artist’s current exhibition ‘Jean Genet… The Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Three’ at Focal Point Gallery.
- [Bristol launch for A Detour Around Infermental](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/bristol-launch-for-a-detour-around-infermental/) - The second launch for the new book A Detour Around Infermental will take place at Picture This' Video Shop in Bristol, and consist of a screening and exhibition. The publication examines the historical legacy and contemporary relevance of the video art project Infermental, the ‘first international magazine on videocassettes’ initiated by Hungarian Filmmaker Gábor Bódy in 1981. A
- [Launch of Mark Titchner ‘ENDS THOU‘](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/launch-of-mark-titchner-ends-thou/) - The launch of ‘ENDS THOU‘, Mark Titchner‘s new site-specific temporary public artwork produced for the exterior of the railway bridge that spans Southend-on-Sea‘s pedestrianised high street. ‘The restoration of the submerged‘, a reading by the artist, will take place at 3.00pm.
- [Focal Point Gallery participating in SOUNDWORKS at ICA, London](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/focal-point-gallery-participating-in-soundworks-at-ica-london/) - SOUNDWORKS 19 JUNE to 16 SEPTEMBER 2012 In conjunction with the exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s Days, the ICA presents a series of sound commissions by over a hundred international artists. Selected by the ICA and institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound work taking its stimulus from the themes evoked in
- [SAAL-HALLA](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/saal-halla/) - An all day A&R event organised by Mat Do for The Kursaal Function Suite, First Floor at The Kursaal, Eastern Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 2WW, UK.
- [Book launch: There we will be buried](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/book-launch-there-we-will-be-buried/) - This event will launch There we will be buried, a publication that documents a theatre play by Yair Oelbaum featuring Kai Althoff, Alex Beth, Daniel Cowen, Yedidya Oelbaum and Jessica Polaniecki. The production was commissioned by Focal Point Gallery for the Dixon Studio in Southend-on-Sea in 2011 and subsequently toured to The Whitney Biennale, New York,
- [Gallery Reading by Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/gallery-reading-by-jonathan-lahey-dronsfield/) - Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield will give a performative reading from his work 'The Goldmine Ten Theses on Music'.
- [Finissage and publication launch for Giorgio Sadotti 'THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/finissage-and-publication-launch-for-giorgio-sadotti-this-this-monster-this-things/) - This closing event will provide a last chance to see Giorgio Sadotti's ‘THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS’. During the afternoon's celebration, the artist's publication THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS will be launched. The book is printed in colour broadsheet newspaper format, with a card wrap-around cover in an edition of 1,000. ISBN 978-1-907185-08-3 £10
- [Club Dada](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/club-dada/) - Psychedelic night organised by Rick Buckley and Paul Despy at The Railway Hotel, Clifftown Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1AJ, UK
- [‘3 before 8‘ record launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/3-before-8-record-launch/) - his event will launch two new records ('3 before 8' and 'Stand Up Now') made for the exhibition 'Thames Delta' by artist-philosophers with a passion for Northern Soul Ross Birrell, Simon Critchley, John Cussans. Jonathan Dronsfield, Haroon Mirza and Cornel West. '3 Before 8' 7" Vinyl Record with Gatefold Sleeve Edition of 300 Side A:
- [Jeremy Deller's 'Sacrilege'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/jeremy-dellers-sacrilege/) - Stonehenge goes on tour – 'Sacrilege' by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller comes to Southend-on-Sea as part of the 2012 celebrations. With just over a month to go to the start of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 'Sacrilege', the life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge for people to bounce on by Turner Prize-winning artist
- [Exhibition Opening: Paul Buck](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-paul-buck/) - Join us at the gallery for the opening of the exhibition 'In the disappearing mist, the gift whispers' by Paul Buck. This event is free and all are welcome.
- [Anna Parkina Book Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/anna-parkina-book-launch/) - This event, which will take place at Wilkinson Gallery during Frieze Art Fair's East End Night, will launch the first monograph on the Russian artist Anna Parkina. The book includes essays by Jens Hoffmann, Zdenek Felix and Dmitry Zabavin and an interview with the artist by Andrew Hunt. Published by Focal Point Gallery. Printed in
- [Film Screening: Performance (1970)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-performance-1970/) - To coincide with Paul Buck's new book Performance, a screening of the film on which it is based, Performance(1970) (Cert. 18), directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox and Mick Jagger, will take place at 10:00am on Wednesday 14 November at The Pod, South East Essex College, Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1ND,
- [Paul Buck in conversation with Gavin Everall](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/paul-buck-in-conversation-with-gavin-everall/) - For this event, poet and writer Paul Buck will discuss his diverse body of work with Gavin Everall. Everall is a key member of staff at Book Works, the London-based art commissioning organisation, which has specialised in artists’ books, spoken word and printed matter for nearly thirty years. Among other subjects, Buck and Everall will
- [Exhibition Opening: Dawn Mellor 'What Happened to Helen?'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-opening-dawn-mellor-what-happened-to-helen/) - Opening of the exhibition 'What Happened to Helen?' by Dawn Mellor, which addresses the Southend-raised actress Dame Helen Mirren within the elaborate sadomasochistic context of Jean Genet's 1947 play The Maids. This event is free and all are welcome.
- [Exhibition Tour: Catherine Grant and Dawn Mellor](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-catherine-grant-and-dawn-mellor/) - Catherine Grant and Dawn Mellor will lead a guided tour of Mellor’s exhibition ‘What Happened to Helen?’ at Focal Point Gallery. Grant is a writer and editor, and currently Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London. Her research focuses on adolescence in photographic portraiture, and the re-enactment of histories of feminism in contemporary art.
- [Film Screening: La Cérémonie (1995)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-la-ceremonie-1995/) - To coincide with Dawn Mellor's exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, we will be screening La Cérémonie(1995) (Cert. 15), directed by Claude Chabrol.
- [Dawn Mellor in conversation with Hilary Lloyd](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/dawn-mellor-in-conversation-with-hilary-lloyd/) - For this event, Dawn Mellor will be discussing her Focal Point Gallery exhibition at South Essex College with Hilary Lloyd. As an artist and filmmaker, Lloyd was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011 and has exhibited at institutions such as Artist Space, New York (2011), Raven Row, London (2010), Munich Kunstverein (2006) and Chisenhale
- [Film Screening: Caché (Hidden) (2005)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-cache-hidden-2005/) - To coincide with Eddie Peake’s exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, we will be screening Caché (Hidden) (2005) (Cert. 15), directed by Michael Haneke.
- [Eddie Peake in conversation with Steven Cairns](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/eddie-peake-in-conversation-with-steven-cairns/) - For this event, Eddie Peake will discuss his Focal Point Gallery exhibition with curator and writer Steven Cairns at South Essex College. Cairns is Associate Curator of Artists’ Film and Moving Image at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. He recently coordinated the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images 2012, curated 'Alma Mater' (2011/12) a LUX
- [Big Screen Commission: Renee Vaughan Sutherland](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/big-screen-commission-renee-vaughan-sutherland/) - This is the first of a new quarterly artist's commission for Focal Point Gallery. It will be screened daily for three months on the large public screen in Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea. For this commission, artist Renee Vaughan Sutherland has collaborated with the Southend based film archive The White Bus. Working closely with the archive, Vaughan
- [Gallery tour: Stephen Beasley and Marc Camille Chaimowicz](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/gallery-tour-stephen-beasley-and-marc-camille-chaimowicz/) - Stephen Beasley of Manalo & White Architects and artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz will lead a gallery tour and discuss the relationship between architecture and the decorative in contemporary art.
- [Artist's talk: Elizabeth Price](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artists-talk-elizabeth-price/) - A talk by the 2012 Turner Prize winning artist Elizabeth Price, who will offer an exclusive insight into her solo exhibition at Focal Point Gallery.
- [Publication Launch: '31,838 feet from the wreck', Dave Charlesworth and Richard Whitby](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/publication-launch-31838-feet-from-the-wreck-dave-charlesworth-and-richard-whitby/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of '31,838 feet from the wreck', a new publication by artists Dave Charlesworth and Richard Whitby. This map-format publication uses digital modelling to visualise a regenerated Southend and re-imagines the wreck of a WWII munitions ship on the Estuary bed (the SS Richard Montgomery) as a
- [Talk: The Wreck of the Richard Montgomery: Ruin, Regeneration and Identity in the Thames Estuary.](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/alk-the-wreck-of-the-richard-montgomery-ruin-regeneration-and-identity-in-the-thames-estuary/) - Artists Richard Whitby and Dave Charlesworth will join Professor Patrick Wright in a discussion on the wrecked WWII munitions ship, the SS Richard Montgomery, which lies on the Estuary bed.
- [Performance: 'Jemima Stehli films If Lucy Fell'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/performance-jemima-stehli-films-if-lucy-fell/) - To coincide with the launch of Jemima Stehli's exhibition 'Endears me, yet remains' a live performance, Jemima Stehli films If Lucy Fell, by the artist and Lisbon-based band If Lucy Fell, will take place in Gallery 1 on Saturday 18 January at 7.00pm. The galleries will be open from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. Free Entry Como parte
- [Reading Salon: J.G. Ballard 'Crash'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-j-g-ballard-crash/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. The first group will be led by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, and for this session, artist Jemima Stehli has chosen J.G. Ballard's novel Crash. This text contains explicit material and topics of an adult nature.
- [Film Screening: 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) (Cert. 18)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-eyes-wide-shut-1999-cert-18/) - As part of our artist selected film programme and, to coincide with Jemima Stehli’s exhibition 'Endears me, yet remains' at Focal Point Gallery, we will be screening Eyes Wide Shut (1999) (Cert. 18), directed by Stanley Kubrick. This event is free.
- [FPG Film Club: Videograms of a Revolution [1992]](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-videograms-of-a-revolution-1992/) - The Film Club presents a series of feature films, archive footage or internet videos, chosen by the exhibiting artist. The programme offers new approaches to the interests and influences of a particular artist. To coincide with Benedict Drew's Big Screen Commission 'Public Address', we will be screening Videograms of a Revolution. A 1992 documentary, the
- [Film Screening: 'Sans Soleil' (1983) (Cert. 15)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-sans-soleil-1983-cert-15/) - As part of our artist selected film programme, and to coincide with Jennifer West’s Big Screen Commission at Focal Point Gallery, we will be screening Sans Soleil (1983) (Cert. 15), directed by Chris Marker.
- [Jemima Stehli in conversation with Lisa Rosendahl](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/jemima-stehli-in-conversation-with-lisa-rosendahl/) - For this event, Jemima Stehli will be discussing her Focal Point Gallery exhibition with international curator Lisa Rosendahl. Previously exhibitions director at Lisson Gallery, Lisa Rosendahl is now director of Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international programme for visual art, architecture, design and craft. Previous positions include Director of Baltic Art Center (Visby) and
- [Film Screening: 'Ali: Fear Eats the Soul' (1974) (Cert. 15)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/film-screening-ali-fear-eats-the-soul-1974-cert-15/) - As part of our artist selected film programme, and to coincide with Jemima Stehli’s exhibition 'Endears me, yet remains' at Focal Point Gallery, we will be screening Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (Cert. 15), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This event is free.
- [David Mabb in conversation with Morgan Quaintance](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/david-mabb-in-conversation-with-morgan-quaintance/) - For this event, David Mabb will be discussing his Focal Point Gallery exhibition with the London-based writer, musician, broadcaster and curator Morgan Quaintance. About the Speakers: David Mabb (b.1959) lives and works in London. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the William Morris Gallery, London (2013); Tate Britain, London (2012); Delaware Centre for
- [Reading Salon: 'News from Nowhere'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-news-from-nowhere/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. To coincide with David Mabb’s exhibition ‘Announcer’, the Salon will focus on chapters 1 to 7 and 21 to 28 of William Morris’ utopian novel 'News from Nowhere' (1890). Join Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
- [Live Studio Recording: Inventing the Landscape](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/inventing-the-landscape/) - Live Studio Recording: Inventing the Landscape The Old Public Reading Room Southend Central Museum A programme of talks, performance and literature reflecting on the hidden and imagined landscapes of Essex. For this live film recording, artist Alexandra Leykauf will be joined by Melissa Gordon and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson as well as actors from E15 Acting School
- [Reading Salon: 'The Voices of Time'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-the-voices-of-time/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. To coincide with Jennifer West's Big Screen Commission, the Salon will focus on J.G. Ballard’s The Voice of Time (1960).
- [Reading Salon: 'The Nature of Things'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-the-nature-of-things/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. To coincide with Simon Martin's Railway Bridge Commission Hammer House, the Salon will focus on The Nature of Things by the French Poet Francis Ponge (1960).
- [Reading Salon: David Foster Wallace and W.H. Auden](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-david-foster-wallace-and-w-h-auden/) - The Reading Salon meets in the FPG Project Space for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. Sessions are led by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. To coincide with Ian Kiaer's exhibition 'Tooth House', the group will be looking at a number of texts chosen by the
- [Reading Salon: Georges Dibi-Huberman](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-georges-dibi-huberman/) - The Reading Salon meets in the FPG Project Space for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. Sessions are led by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. To coincide with Ian Kiaer's exhibition 'Tooth House', the group will be looking at a number of texts chosen by the
- [Reading Salon: Reading Salon: John Russell and Paul Purgas](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-reading-salon-john-russell-and-paul-purgas/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. The salon will discuss these texts through the ideas of time, speed and production. To coincide with Hannah Sawtell's show '#STANDARDISER', the artist has chosen John Russell's text Abysmal Plan: Waiting Until
- [FPG Film Club: Selected by Hannah Sawtell](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-selected-by-hannah-sawtell/) - The Film Club presents a series of feature films, archive footage or internet videos, chosen by the exhibiting artist. The programme offers new approaches to the interests and influences of a particular artist. To coincide with the Hannah Sawtell's exhibition '#STANDARDISER', we will be showing a selection of films from the artist’s #DORMANTPOOL screening, which
- [Closing Performance: Hannah Sawtell #STANDARDISER_PERFORMANCE](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/closing-performance-hannah-sawtell-standardiser_performance/) - To close the exhibition '#STANDARDISER', Hannah Sawtell will perform live in Gallery 1 on Saturday 20 December 2014, 6.00pm (drinks from 4.00pm) This event is free, but spaces are limited. To reserve a place, Click here or call Focal Point Gallery on +44(0)1702 534 108 Please be aware '#STANDARDISER' exhibition will close at 5.00pm for
- [FPG Film Club: Fahrenheit 451 [1966] dir. François Truffaut](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-fahrenheit-451-1966-dir-francois-truffaut/) - The Film Club presents a series of feature films, archive footage or internet videos, chosen by the exhibiting artist. The programme offers new approaches to the interests and influences of a particular artist or project. To coincide with Phil Coy's Big Screen Commission 'as far as I know', we will be screening Fahrenheit 451 [1966],
- [Reading Salon: Henri Bergson and John Geiger](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/reading-salon-henri-bergson-and-john-geiger/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. To coincide with Rick Buckley’s show ‘Black Bile 84’, the artist has chosen an excerpt from Matter and Memory (1896) by Henri Bergson. This will be read alongside an excerpt from John
- [Performance: Phil Coy Devotion Gradient](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/performance-phil-coy-devotion-gradient/) - Devotion Gradient, 2015, is the second work in Phil Coy's two-part commission for the Big Screen, and will be performed live in Elmer Square on Saturday 21 March at 4:30pm. Coy has worked with local choirs towards a seemingly spontaneous, and yet ritualised performance. Devotion Gradient uses the heightened theatrical context of Elmer Square's large
- [Artist Talk: Paul Johnson in conversation with Timothy Morton](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artist-talk-paul-johnson-in-conversation-with-timothy-morton/) - For this event, Paul Johnson will be discussing his Focal Point Gallery exhibition with professor Timothy Morton. Timothy Morton is Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, Texas. A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies. He coined the term 'hyperobjects',
- [FPG Reading Salon: Timothy Morton](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-reading-salon-timothy-morton/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. 'Things shimmer without mechanical input' To coincide with Paul Johnson's exhibition 'The Sunless Sea', the artist has chosen a section from Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (2013) by Timothy Morton. To join
- [FPG Reading Salon: Ali Smith and Virginia Woolf](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-reading-salon-ali-smith-and-virginia-woolf/) - The Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. 'The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.' To coincide with Bridget
- [Gallery Tour: Bridget Smith 'If You Want To Talk About Light You Have To Talk About Waves'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/gallery-tour-bridget-smith-if-you-want-to-talk-about-light-you-have-to-talk-about-waves/) - To close this years Leigh Art Trail, Bridget Smith will lead a tour of her Focal Point Gallery exhibition with Director Joe Hill. This will be followed by a drinks reception at the Gallery.
- [Experimental Photography Sessions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/experimental-photography-sessions/) - Thursday Evening Experimental Photography Sessions at FPG June 2015 Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce experimental photography sessions, running every Thursday in June to coincide with Bridget Smith’s exhibition ‘If You Want To Talk About Light You Have To Talk About Waves’. These artist-led practical and discussion groups will offer the opportunity to develop
- [Zero Moment of Truth in 'The Bear Pit' Jennifer Chan, Jaakko Pallasvuo and Ilja Karilampi](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/zero-moment-of-truth-in-the-bear-pit-jennifer-chan-jaakko-pallasvuo-and-ilja-karilampi/) - ‘Zero Moment of Truth’, a marketing term, refers to the behaviour of potential customers who have a question, need or interest. This moment is followed by the customer undertaking a period of research, comparison and awareness, as a means to decide upon which action may next be taken. ‘The First Moment of Truth’ is the
- [The Big Draw](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-big-draw/)
- [GALLERY TOUR: Paul Clinton](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/gallery-tour-paul-clinton/) - Co-curator Paul Clinton will lead a tour of 'duh? Art & Stupidity' at Focal Point Gallery. This event is free and all are welcome to attend. Please be aware, the exhibition contains content which is unsuitable for children. 'duh? Art & Stupidity' was curated by Paul Clinton and Anna Gritz. Paul Clinton is a writer
- [FPG Reading Salon: Roland Barthes, Lily van der Stokker and John Waters](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-reading-salon-roland-barthes-lily-van-der-stokker-and-john-waters/) - Hosted by artist and writer Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, the Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. To coincide with 'duh? Art & Stupidity', curators Paul Clinton and Anna Gritz have chosen Roland Barthes 'Blind and Dumb Criticism' and 'Towards friendliness, childishness
- [Symposium: Working Together The Impact of Artists on Institutions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/symposium-working-together-the-impact-of-artists-on-institutions/) - Working Together: The Impact of Artists on Institutions Keynote Speakers: Artist Ed Atkins with Beatrix Ruf, Director of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam £10 admission (including lunch and refreshments) Concessions available for students, practising artists, unwaged and registered disabled attendees. Please book on Eventbrite here The East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (ECVAN) and Focal Point Gallery
- ['The Peculiar People' opening including performance by artist Lina Lapelyte](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/the-peculiar-people-opening-including-performance-by-artist-lina-lapelyte/) - The exhibition will open with artist Lina Lapelyte’s, Ladies, 2015, a performance-concert featuring four women from the Lietuva ensemble. The performance will take place at approximately 7.00pm. The talks and events programme for 'The Peculiar People' is curated by Ellen Grieg.
- [Caspar Heinemann and Hannah Black](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/caspar-heinemann-and-hannah-black/) - Artist and writer Caspar Heinemann will read from their ever evolving pastoral poem Good Health & Safety, 2015–ongoing. To coincide with this event artist and writer Hannah Black will launch her Focal Point Gallery new commission for Big Screen Southend. The talks and events programme for 'The Peculiar People' is curated by Ellen Grieg.
- [LAUNCH EVENT: Matthew Butcher 'Flood House' and Ruth Ewan 'All Distinctions Levelled’](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/launch-event-matthew-butcher-flood-house-and-ruth-ewan-all-distinctions-levelled/) - A launch event for 'Flood House' will take place on Saturday 30 April, which will include a talk at Focal Point Gallery at 5.00pm, followed by a walk to the Pier and drinks at The Pier Head.
- [Ken Worpole](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/ken-worpole/) - Ken Worpole writes on architecture, landscape, planning, design, and social history. In this talk, Worpole provides an overview of the nonconformist impulse in the Essex landscape (and its forms of settlement), and asks how this impulse fares today. The talks and events programme for 'The Peculiar People' is curated by Ellen Grieg
- [Southend Film Festival: 'Bata-Ville: We Are Not Afraid Of The Future'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/southend-film-festival-bata-ville-we-are-not-afraid-of-the-future/) - 'BATA-VILLE: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF THE FUTURE' Directed by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of an English coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire: the Moravian town of Zlin. Against the backdrop of economic regeneration in their communities, former employees of two now closed UK Bata
- [Penny Rimbaud](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/penny-rimbaud/) - Under the heading of OPEN DOOR, OPEN HEART, poet, philosopher and social activist Penny Rimbaud discusses notions of community, radical lifestyle and acts of resistance. The talks and events programme for 'The Peculiar People' is curated by Ellen Grieg.
- [Christian Nyampeta](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/christian-nyampeta/) - Artist Christian Nyampeta will address and extend his research into idiorrhythmy, a formational concept for regional utopian imaginaries drawn from early monasticism, proposed through Roland Barthes’ How To Live Together. The talks and events programme for 'The Peculiar People' is curated by Ellen Grieg.
- [Launch Event: YoHa, Critical Art Ensemble and Arts Catalyst 'Graveyard of Lost Species'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/launch-event-yoha-critical-art-ensemble-and-arts-catalyst-graveyard-of-lost-species/) - Graveyard of Lost Species is an ambitious collaborative project and anti-monument by artists YoHa and Critical Art Ensemble commissioned by Arts Catalyst. On Saturday 23 June, the artwork – created from a local wrecked boat, will be placed back into the Thames Estuary carved with people’s stories of changes in the area – a physical
- [ESSEX Architecture Weekend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/essex-architecture-weekend/) - Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September 2016 More details and launch of full website coming soon. Register your interest and stay up to date with programme announcements here. Radical Essex is pleased to present a weekend-long programme of events to celebrate the county’s pioneering role in twentieth century architecture. The two-day festival will provide unique
- [Performance: Jefford Horrigan](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/performance-jefford-horrigan/) - To accompany the artist's commission 'Blue Gloves and Tigers' at Focal Point Gallery and Big Screen Southend, Jefford Horrigan will perform on a specially designed stage in Elmer Square. This will be followed by a series of performances including a newly devised collaboration by local artists Stuart Bowditch and Jillian Winter, and a concluding performance
- [Artist Tour: Frances Scott  'CANWEYE { }'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artist-tour-frances-scott-canweye/) - Frances Scott will lead a tour of her Focal Point Gallery exhibition with Director Joe Hill. This will be followed by a screening of Ken Russell’s 'The Devils' (1971) at the Beecroft Art Gallery. This event forms part of the Southend Charabanc Weekend, a series of events taking place throughout Southend-on-Sea as part of Estuary
- [FPG Film Club 'The Devils'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-the-devils/) - To coincide with Frances Scott's exhibition 'CANWEYE { }' and Estuary Festival 2016, we will be screening Ken Russell's 1971 film 'The Devils' in the Beecroft Art Gallery's 1970s designed lecture theatre, a room used in the making of 'CANWEYE { }'.
- [FPG Reading Salon: 'CANWEYE { }'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-reading-salon-canweye/) - Hosted by artist and writer Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, the Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. To coincide with Frances Scott's exhibition 'CANWEYE { }', the artist has chosen the introductory section from Victor Burgin's The Remembered Film (2004) To join
- [Frances Scott in-conversation with William Fowler](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/frances-scott-in-conversation-with-william-fowler/) - For this event, Frances Scott will be discussing her Focal Point Gallery exhibition with William Fowler. William Fowler is a writer, film historian and musician. He is Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, BFI National Archive and the co-founder and co-programmer of The Flipside at BFI Southbank. His seasons and restoration projects at the BFI have
- [Opening: Torsten Slama 'Exhibition for Go-Getters' and 'A Retreat in Time'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/opening-torsten-slama-exhibition-for-go-getters-and-a-retreat-in-time/) - Join us for the launch of Torsten Slama's exhibition 'Exhibition for Go-Getters' and the Big Screen Southend programme 'A Retreat in Time' A limited number of half-price return train tickets are available between London Fenchurch Street and Southend Central. Book your train tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/half-price-train-tickets-focal-point-gallery-exhibition-opening-tickets-28338422986
- [Project MORNING Publication Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/project-morning-publication-launch/) - Radical Essex are pleased to support Project MORNING, hosting the launch of their new publication at Focal Point Gallery. Featuring images referencing the past, present and future histories of Laindon, the publication includes a newly commissioned text from Stephanie Sutton and an interview between project curator Warren Harper and artist Shaun C Badham. Publications at
- [Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Surgery](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/arts-council-england-grants-for-the-arts-surgery/) - Funding Advice for Arts Groups and Artists. Southend artists and culture groups looking for money for their artistic projects in 2017 are being invited to attend a free funding event to help them get Arts Council England grant funding for their arts ideas or even their proposed 125 Borough Anniversary projects. The advice-giving sessions are
- [East 15 Performance](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/east-15-performance/) - A series of performances by current students at East 15 Acting School will be presented in the gallery space in response to Focal Point's current exhibition 'Exhibition for Go-Getters'.
- ['A CONFESSION: ANARCHY, ANONYMITY, HEALTH & EFFICIENCY'  An Amateur History of Social Nudity in Modern Essex 1896-2017 with Barry Sykes](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-confession-anarchy-anonymity-health-efficiency-an-amateur-history-of-social-nudity-in-modern-essex-1896-2017-with-barry-sykes/) - In this introductory talk to his current research for Radical ESSEX, artist Barry Sykes will attempt to trace a line from Essex's Tolstoy Colonies, via the UK's first naturist club in the 1920s, to the attitudes, allegiances and hobbies of present day commuter-belt suburbia. The prospect of communal nudity can provoke horror or delight. However,
- [FPG Reading Salon: Torsten Slama](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-reading-salon-torsten-slama/) - Hosted by artist and writer Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, the Reading Salon meets for informal discussion, encouraging both a critical engagement with contemporary art and an open space for debate and learning. The text for this session can be downloaded here To join the group and receive a copy of the texts, please contact ruthhazel@southend.gov.uk Join the
- [Volker Eichelmann in-conversation with Philip Hoare](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/volker-eichelmann-in-conversation-with-philip-hoare/) - For this event, Volker Eichelmann will be discussing his Focal Point Gallery exhibition with Philip Hoare. Philip Hoare's works include his first book Serious Pleasures, a biography of Stephen Tennant, published in 1990. It was followed by his authorised biography of Noël Coward, the historical studies, Wilde’s Last Stand Spike Island, and England’s Lost Eden.
- [Artists' Research Centre: Introductory Talk Alexandra Leykauf and Becky Beasley](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artists-research-centre-introductory-talk-alexandra-leykauf-and-becky-beasley/) - Join us for an informal presentation by artists Alexandra Leykauf and Becky Beasley who will be speaking their work and plans for their projects in Southend-on-Sea with ARC Director Ben Roberts. This summer both artists will be spending time in Southend researching and developing new work about the area. Leykauf will be focusing on female
- [Dominic from Luton, launch of publication](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/dominic-from-luton-launch-of-publication/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to invite you to the launch of artist Dominic Allan’s monograph, Dominic From Luton. To launch this publication, Dominic Allan will be in conversation with Helen Nisbet, curatorial fellow at Cubitt, London. This inaugural study of Dominic Allan’s work beautifully illustrates the artist’s explorations of urban England, under the guise
- [Maximum Overdrive Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/maximum-overdrive-takeover-2/) - Focal Point Gallery presents a gallery takeover by artists Julia Crabtree and William Evans. This one-off event includes the premier launch of a newly commissioned film piece which will be presented across the 4-channel digital projection space in gallery 1, thereafter becoming part of the daily exhibition, 'Maximum Overdrive'. Crabtree and Evan’s work explores the
- [Artist Research Centre Artists’ Film Screening Landscape selected by Alexandra Leykauf](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/artist-research-centre-artists-film-screening-landscape-selected-by-alexandra-leykauf/) - SCREENING: Artists’ Film – Landscape selected by Alexandra Leykauf Kenneth Anger | Stan van der Beek | Marcel Broodthaers | Maya Deren | Ger van Elk | Simon FaithFull | Hollis Frampton | General Idea Alexandra Leykauf | Marie Menke | Toshio Matsumoto | William Raban | Margaret Tait | Pieter Vanderbeck | Bill Viola|
- [Theatre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/theatre/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present a new solo exhibition by British artist Hilary Lloyd. Produced in the Edwardian Palace Theatre in Southend, this newly commissioned film-work utilises a mixture of actors and non-actors to investigate the fringes of a scripted scene, whilst activating the full apparatus of the stage set as a key
- [Southend Editions Opening](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/southend-editions-opening/) - A collection of editions from Southend Arts Institutions including Metal, The Old Waterworks, TOMA and Focal Point Gallery. Installed across Twenty One's curved wall, the exhibition launch event will take place on Saturday 4th November from 7.00 to 9.00pm. Twenty One is a new cultural venue curated by Focal Point Gallery. Located on Southend’s famous
- [TRACKING SHOT 1.](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/tracking-shot-1/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a weekend of broadcasts on Big Screen Southend from Trackingshot, a site responsive collaborative project by artists Rebecca Birch, Leah Capaldi, George Charman and Adam Knight, in partnership with Field Broadcast. Trackingshot investigates frontier spaces through art practice and cross-disciplinary research. To mark the launch of broadcasts and
- [Public Art Commissions Surgery](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/public-art-commissions-surgery/) - Forming part of Focal Point Gallery's Professional Development Programme for Artists, this session will aim to provide practical advice for making applications to public art commissions. This comes in advance of the deadline for expression of interests for the New Geographies programme on Sunday 29 January. The surgery will provide insight into aspects of audience
- [Poetry from Art](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/poetry-from-art/) - As part of ‘Other Voices, Other Rooms’, Focal Point Gallery are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for poets and artists of all abilities. A poetry workshop with Thyrza Leyshon will take place on Saturday 17 March between 2pm and 4.30pm and will help attendees to explore their engagement with drawings by Paul Anthony Harford,
- [Family Arts Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/family-arts-day/) - Enjoy a day of free family activity with artists Laurence Harding and Nastassja Simensky. All ages are welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Places can be booked in person on the day.
- [Money, Worth and Well-being](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/money-worth-and-well-being/) - In this, the second instalment of Focal Point Gallery's professional development programme, we talk money, worth and well-being. Money is never an easy topic for an artist; needing to navigate romantic notions of lone working and surviving on 'the love of it', make the difficult task of negotiating fees even harder. Along with an awareness
- [TOMA Takeover](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/toma-takeover/) - Big Screen Southend is pleased to present a programme of artist moving image by participants of TOMA*. The programme invites the group to respond to the Big Screen's unique context for the screening of artist moving image in the public realm. Participating artists: Laura Adamson, Richard Baxter, Michaela Bannon, Fiona Bennett, Emma Edmondson, Laurence Harding,
- [2 Hours Ride](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/2-hours-ride/) - '2 Hours Ride’ is a programme of new audio visual works by a group of emerging artists currently studying at Wimbledon College of Art. Following an initial visit to Southend-on-Sea, the group were invited to present work for Big Screen Southend; a permanent outdoor video facility for the screening of artist moving image. Participating Artists:
- [Catherine Hyland](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/catherine-hyland/) - Originally commissioned as part of the Radical ESSEX programme, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographic works by Catherine Hyland at Twenty One. Join us for the exhibition launch on Thursday 26 April, 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
- [Offprint London](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/offprint-london/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to participate in the fourth edition of Offprint at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall where publications from our printed matter programme will be available to buy throughout. Offprint London brings together around 120 independent and experimental publishers in the fields of contemporary art, photography and graphic design from around the world.
- [About the White Bus](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/about-the-white-bus/) - 'About the White Bus', 1968. Directed by John Fletcher Following Lindsay Anderson's career as one of the founding members of Free Cinema, this film details the making of his second feature-film 'The White Bus' in 1965. The film will be shown on 16mm, presented by the Southend-on-Sea based independent cinema and film company who take
- [Lorenza Mazzetti](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-lorenza-mazzetti/) - A rare screening of Lorenza Mazzetti’s 'Together', originally shown in the first Free Cinema programme at the National Film Theatre in February 1956. This event will include a reading from her new book London Diaries. It will also include a presentation by artist Brighid Lowe (Senior Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art) and Sight and
- [Veronica 4 Rose](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/fpg-film-club-veronica-4-rose/) - 'Veronica 4 Rose', 1982. Directed by Melanie Chait Made with young lesbians aged between 16 and 23 from Newcastle, Liverpool and London, this warm and engaging film explores the ups and downs of being lesbian in a predominately heterosexual and homophobic society geared to wedding bells and boys. The young women interviewed speak openly about
- [28 Lessons I Was Never Taught: Section 28, Thirty Years On](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/workshop-28-lessons-i-was-never-taught-section-28-thirty-years-on/) - Filmmaker Ed Webb-Ingall will facilitate a workshop looking at the legacy and impact of Section 28.* His new video installation at Focal Point Gallery, 'We Have Rather Been Invaded', will provide a starting point to reflect on the way that our experience in education has shaped our queer subjectivities. Together, we will produce a new
- [What's Your Location?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/whats-your-location/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a screening of artists films across Big Screen Southend and the temporary cinema space in Gallery One by the international research collective What's Your Location? Participating artists include: Steven Scott Antonio Da Silva Gayle Chong Kwan Frances Young Katia Salvany Amana AlThuwaini Jassim AlNashmi Rommulo Vieira Conceição Judy-Ann
- [Shoebury Park: Family Activity Day](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/shoebury-park-family-activity-day/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a free Family Activity Day in Shoebury Park to launch a new project developed by artist Kieren Reed with local schools and youth groups in Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea. From 11.00am to 4.00pm on Saturday 7th July, Kieren and other artists will be in the park offering free workshops and
- [Radical ESSEX Book Launch](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/radical-essex-book-launch/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to invite you to the publication launch for Radical ESSEX. Accompanying the Radical ESSEX programme , Radical ESSEX continues the ethos of the project, celebrating the twentieth century histories of Essex and the extremes of this innovative and experimental county. The book features new writing from Tim Burrows, Gillian Darley,
- [Black Bile 84](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/black-bile-84-book-launch-and-film-screening/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to invite you to the publication launch for 'Black Bile 84', a new publication by artist Rick Buckley. The publication follows Rick Buckley's 2015 exhibition and offsite project 'Black Bile 84' at Focal Point Gallery and Southend Pier, 19 January to 4 April 2015. The launch will include a preview
- [A Taste of Honey](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/a-taste-of-honey/) - 'A Taste of Honey', 1961. Directed by Tony Richardson. Based on the adaption of the play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney, 'A Taste of Honey' is considered a key film in the British New Wave that followed the Free Cinema movement of the late 1950s. The original play itself is also considered one
- [Digifest](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest-2/) - Enjoy a day of family activity exploring different ways of making a collaborative artwork. Artists Lu Williams and Sophia Simensky will guide you through different digital methods in Focal Point Gallery's learning space. Drop in and make your own printed zine with Lu of Grrrl Zine Fair, you can then turn your artwork into a
- [Digifest](https://www.fpg.org.uk/event/digifest/) - Video Making and Editing Tuesday 14 August, Wednesday 15 August and Thursday 16 August 11.00am to 4.00pm An introduction to video capture and editing, led by artists Milo Creese and Rebecca Moss. Sessions will take place offsite and in the Digital Learning Space with the option of using green screen. Street Photography Friday 17 August

## Updates

- [Job Opportunity: Creative Learning Apprentice 2025](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-creative-learning-apprentice-2/) - Join our team! Creative Learning Apprentice Focal Point Gallery is looking for a Creative Learning Apprentice to join our team and help us deliver exciting and inclusive creative projects across Southend and beyond. As part of this role, you’ll work closely with our Learning and Engagement Curator, gaining practical experience in how a gallery designs,
- [Job Opportunity: Head of Contemporary Visual Arts](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-head-of-contemporary-visual-arts/) - Deadline: 8 August 2025 Min Pay Rate: GBP £44,711.00/Yr Max Pay Rate: GBP £50,788.00/Yr. Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking to appoint a Head of Contemporary Visual Arts to strategically lead, manage and support contemporary visual arts across Focal Point Gallery and the wider City, including Southend
- [Job Opportunity: New Gallery Assistant ](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-new-gallery-assistant/) - Work With Us! We are looking for a new Gallery Assistant Would you like to work for a vibrant contemporary art gallery? Are you passionate about the role the arts can play in our lives? Do you enjoy being in a public facing environment? Focal Point Gallery are looking for a Gallery Assistant to be
- [Blank Slate - New Youth Collective!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/blank-slate-new-youth-collective/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of Blank Slate, our new monthly group for young people aged 13 to 18 starting this September. We’re bringing you something fresh, fun, and inspiring on the last Friday of every month with our first session Friday 27th September, 4:30pm to 6:30pm. Our mission is to
- [Creative Break Time - Freelands Foundation Consortium Project](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/creative-break-time/) - We’re one of the four projects awarded Freelands Foundation funding as part of their Autumn 2023 grant. Focal Point Gallery, Metal, and The Other MA (TOMA) have collaborated to establish our brand-new programme, Creative Break Time! This three-year project allows teachers to step away from rigid planning schedules and collaborate with artists and other creatives in Southend, fostering
- [Job Opportunity: Creative Break Time Freelance Producer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/creative-break-time-freelance-producer/) - Creative Break Time is an opportunity to transform the creative learning landscape in Southend and across the country. Teachers are exhausted - how do we give them creative respite to recharge their creative batteries and find new ways to be? This 3-year project supported by Freelands Foundation, centres teachers, their care, rest and wellbeing to
- [Open Call: Big Screen Southend Selected Artists](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/open-call-big-screen-southend-selected-artists/) - Focal Point Gallery are pleased to announce the artists who have been awarded a new commission and screening opportunities as part of the Open Call: Big Screen Southend, selected by Inês Costa, Curator at Focal Point Gallery, Ruth Jones, artist, independent curator, lecturer, and Director of The Old Waterworks and Morgan Quaintance, artist and writer, working
- [Job Opportunity: Freelance Project Manager, Southend Creative and Culture Network (SCCN)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-freelance-project-manager-southend-creative-and-culture-network-sccn/) - Are you a seasoned Project Manager with a passion for driving positive change in the arts and culture sector? We're on the lookout for a dynamic individual to support the Southend Creative & Culture Network (SCCN) as a Freelance Project Manager! SCCN is a dynamic collective of over 90 businesses, organisations, and self-employed creatives, committed
- [Call out for new members of FPG Advisory Group aged 18 to 24](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/call-out-for-new-members-of-fpg-advisory-group-aged-18-to-24/) - Focal Point Gallery (FPG) is looking for people aged between 18 and 24 to join a group that advises the gallery on its future direction, ensuring it continues to be relevant for all communities in Southend. Through this opportunity, you will help to ensure FPG continues to meet the needs of your generation and place
- [Job Opportunity: Creative Learning Apprentice](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-creative-learning-apprentice/) - Join our team! Creative Learning Apprentice Are you a creative thinker? Do you enjoy an ever-changing role? Do you want the opportunity to develop your career as part of a professional contemporary art gallery? If the above is a yes, this role is for you. Focal Point Gallery is looking for a Creative Learning Apprentice
- [Made from this Land](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/made-from-this-land/) - The public artwork ‘Made from this Land’ has been delayed following a request to reconsider the siting of the sculpture proposed for Lynton Road. We are now awaiting a technical survey of the proposed alternative site on the seafront bastion which will inform the decision making on this project. ‘Made from this Land’ is a
- [Open Call - Art Commission](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/open-call-art-commission/) - Focal Point Gallery and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange are looking to appoint an artist to create a new commission for a simultaneous exhibition in Southend-on-Sea and in Newlyn/Penzance at the end of September 2023 working in partnership with external organisations. This project will reimagine ways to engage the residents of Southend-on-Sea and Newlyn/Penzance
- [Who are we?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/who-are-we/) - Ever wondered what goes on at Focal Point Gallery? Find out more about who we are and what we do in our brand-new video. At Focal Point Gallery you can discover art exhibitions, workshops, outdoor film screenings on Big Screen Southend and more. Come and see for yourself, you are sure to receive a warm
- [Join our team! Curator](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/join-our-team-curator/) - Focal Point Gallery is looking for a Curator to play a key role in developing and delivering Focal Point Gallery’s programme of exhibitions, public and digital art commissions, and events that support artists to produce and present high quality contemporary art, which engage a wide range of local residents and visiting audiences. This role has
- [Artist Call Out for Prenatal Art Project 'Expecting Art'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/artist-call-out-for-prenatal-art-project-expecting-art/) - Focal Point Gallery is delivering an exciting and innovative project in partnership with A Better Start Southend; ‘Expecting Art’. ‘Expecting Art’ is a project to explore, develop and create an artistic outcome with a group of local pre-natal individuals that will examine their experiences and expectations of parenthood. Creative consultations, idea development sessions and workshops
- [Made from this Land - Brick Making](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/made-from-this-land-brick-making/) - Throughout the month of May, Emma Edmondson has been running public brick making workshops for Southchurch residents at The Old Waterworks. In these sessions people have been learning about the project, the history of the brickfields in Southchurch and beyond alongside traditional brick making processes. Edmondson has been showing people how to throw a brick
- [We Are Invisible, We Are Visible (WAIWAV)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/we-are-invisible-we-are-visible-waiwav/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to be participating We Are Invisible, We Are Visible (WAIWAV) presented by DASH, the disabled led visual arts organisation. WAIWAV marks the 102nd anniversary of the 1st Dada International Exhibition in Berlin, and will see 31 d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists will stage Dada inspired interventions in 30 museums and
- [Elsa James nominated for Freelands Award](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/elsa-james-nominated-for-freelands-award/) - We are delighted to be shortlisted by Freelands Foundation for the Freelands Art Award 2021 for our forthcoming solo exhibition with with Elsa James! ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’ will be a significant expansion of James’ ongoing enquiry to explore the historical, temporal, and spatial dimensions of what it means to
- [Join Our Team! Assistant Digital Media Producer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/join-our-team-assistant-digital-media-producer/) - Focal Point Gallery is looking for an Assistant Digital Media Producer to help coordinate and support the production of Focal Point Gallery’s new digital commissioning programme. Currently in its early stages, ‘FPG Sounds’ will comprise of fifteen new, high quality, innovative audio works, including spoken word, music, prose, field recordings and experimental sound by Southend-based artists.
- [Join our team! Learning and Engagement Curator](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-learning-and-engagement-curator/) - Focal Point Gallery is looking for a full time Learning and Engagement Curator to lead our creative learning strands, engaging local young people, families, children and elders through co-designed programmes. Key focus areas include the development of partnerships and opportunities with local and national community and arts organisations and research into best practice within this
- [Job Opportunity: Freelance Head Technician](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/job-opportunity-freelance-head-technician/) - We are looking for a creative and experienced Freelance Head Technician to join the team at Focal Point Gallery. We are looking for a pro-active, organised, skilled and detail-focused all-rounder, able to manage varied responsibilities with confidence and to a very high standard. FPG commissions three major shows a year and one community exhibition as
- [Sharon Byrne](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/sharon-byrne/) - We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our much-loved friend and colleague Sharon Byrne, on Friday 7 January 2022. Sharon had been living with cancer in recent times, retiring from the gallery after 12 years to concentrate her energy on her family and health. Our thoughts are especially with her family, friends, and
- [New public art commission for Southend Town Centre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/new-public-art-commission-for-southend-town-centre-2/) - Focal Point Gallery in collaboration with Creative Estuary are delighted to announce the commission of a new, major public artwork in the centre of Southend-on-Sea. This impactful, ambitious, and high-quality public realm commission is intended to capture the imagination of residents and visitors to Southend-on-Sea establishing it as a unique and creative place in the heart of the Estuary. The brief
- [FPG Winter Editions Sale!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/fpg-winter-editions-sale/) - Enjoy 20% off all of our editions between 1 December and 16 January! Great works by Benedict Drew, Bridget Smith, Volker Eichelmann, Keith Farquhar, Clunie Reid and more on offer. Enter EDITIONS20 at checkout for any work in our editions collection. Also, if you spend over £25 across any of our printed matter, publications, editions
- [Contemporary Elders: Digital Connectivity](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/contemporary-elders-digital-connectivity/) - We are delighted to announce that our Contemporary Elders: Digital Connectivity film has been longlisted for the second round of Arts Council England’s Digital Culture Awards in the Digital Storytelling category. Early in 2021, Focal Point Gallery and South Essex Homes (SEH) partnered to work with elder residents to explore their experiences during lockdown, the
- [New public art commission for Southend Town Centre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/new-public-art-commission-for-southend-town-centre/) - Focal Point Gallery in collaboration with Creative Estuary are looking to appoint an artist to create a new public artwork in Southend-on-Sea, working with the Southend Creative and Culture Network (SCCN). The intention is to produce an impactful, ambitious, and high-quality public realm commission that captures the imagination of residents and visitors to Southend-on-Sea establishing it as a
- [Twenty One Reopening!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/twenty-one-reopening/) - Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Focal Point Gallery are delighted to announce the reopening of Twenty One in partnership with Elwira Middleton, restoring this cultural and community café to the heart of Southend-on-Sea. Building on the successes of the venue over the past four years, Twenty One returns to open daily as a café and exhibition
- [Made from this Land - Brick Earth](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/made-from-this-land-brick-earth/) - On Friday 22 October at 9am, working together with the Southend-on-Sea Borough Council’s Parks team, we will be digging up one cubic metre of brick earth to form a public artwork that will sit on this site as part of the project MADE from this LAND by local artist Emma Edmondson. This earth will be replenished,
- [30th Anniversary Artist's Self-Portrait Fundraiser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/30th-anniversary-artists-self-portrait-fundraiser/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to announce that our Artist’s Self-Portrait fundraiser will be live from Monday 13 September. To mark Focal Point Gallery’s 30th anniversary last year (2020), we sought to acknowledge the vital role artists have played in our legacy as an institution. In a light-hearted acknowledgment to each individual, we invited every artist
- [Feelgood Festival](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/feelgood-festival/) - Focal Point Gallery are excited to be part of Southend's Feelgood Festival! Feelgood Festival is a family fun packed day which will involve sports competitions, bouncy castle, dance performances and much more. All ages are welcome, there are activities available for everyone, so bring down all your family and friends! The Feel Good Festival is a
- [Marketing Consultant Submission](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/marketing-consultant-submission/) - Focal Point Gallery are looking for a freelance marketing consultant to help us grow our presence within the community. Your goal would be to increase our visiting audiences in particular, but not limited to, Southend-on-Sea and South Essex, as well as converting a one off visitor into a regular attendant. Please check our brief for
- ['A View without the Bridge'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/a-view-without-the-bridge/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to present a new site-specific artwork by Janette Parris for its annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street from 25 July to 25 October 2021. Parris has responded to this unique location at the heart of Southend’s Town Centre by making new drawings that reimagine a familiar view. Considering
- [Opportunity - Delivery Partner for Twenty One](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/opportunity-delivery-partner-for-twenty-one/) - As restrictions begin to unlock, we are excited to look to the future and ensure Twenty One is an important venue in the Southend cultural community for projects and events. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Focal Point Gallery are looking for a venue delivery partner to manage a catering and events offer. We welcome interest from
- [Big Screen Southend Commissions Awarded](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/big-screen-southend-commissions-awarded/) - Following a call for submissions last year, FPG is pleased to announce the artists who have been awarded new commissions or screening opportunities at Big Screen Southend, selected by artist Elsa James, artist and filmmaker Renee Vaughan Sutherland and Focal Point Gallery Assistant Curator James Ravinet. Due to the number of applicants, FPG have doubled
- [Focal Point Gallery’s reopening plans and 2021 programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/focal-point-gallerys-reopening-plans-and-2021-programme/) - We are delighted to announce Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea plans to reopen from 19 May with ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, the first solo institutional exhibition by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, an outdoor public artwork by Mary Mattingly, ‘Vanishing Point’, a co-commission with Metal Southend as part of Estuary 2021 and we are thrilled to introduce our 2021
- [FPG Sounds](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/fpg-sounds/) - We are thrilled to announce a new year-long digital commissioning programme. 'FPG Sounds' will comprise of fifteen new, high quality, innovative audio works, including spoken word, music, prose, field recordings and experimental sound by Southend-based artists. Southend has a long and rich history of innovators working across sound. From the development of EKCO radio to
- [Made from this Land - Call Out](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/made-from-this-land-call-out/) - no bricks or tiles shall be made (nor any clay or lime burnt on the land and no excavation of gravel sand clay or soil shall be made thereon so as to deprive any adjoining property of lateral support or for any purpose other than for building on the land) On the deeds of many
- [Call out for Young Researchers for ‘99 by 19’!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/call-out-for-young-researchers-for-99-by-19/) - '99 by 19' is an activity programme that engages young people to release their creativity through a series of themed activities, equipping them with the skills and confidence to progress through an ever-changing diverse world. The programme will consist of a list of 99 activities to complete in Southend by the age of 19, and
- [Season's Greetings](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/seasons-greetings/) - Coming to the end of a year unlike any other, all of us at Focal Point Gallery wish to say a huge Thank You. A team thank you to each other for the mutual care and support; thank you to our artist community for bringing joy and inspiration; thank you to our participants and audiences
- [Temporary Closure Announcement](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/temporary-closure-announcement/) - Due to the UK Government's announcement that Southend is Tier 4 in the local restriction tier system, Focal Point Gallery will remain closed to the public from Wednesday 16 December 2020 until further notice. We hope to open our doors again in the new year, subject to further government advice. We wish all our artists,
- [Work With Us! We are looking for new Gallery Assistants](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/work-with-us-we-are-looking-for-new-gallery-assistants/) - Would you like to get experience working in a contemporary art gallery? Are you passionate about the role the arts can play in our lives? Do you enjoy being in a public facing environment? Focal Point Gallery are looking for two Gallery Assistants to be the first point of welcome for visitors, ensuring the public
- [The Future of the High Street](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/the-future-of-the-high-street/) - Focal Point Gallery has been appointed as one of ten regional cultural organisations across England to help deliver a new project that considers the future of the British High Street in these uncertain times. In partnership with Historic England, FPG has commissioned local filmmaker Aaron Shrimpton to create a new short film that responds to
- [Anti-racism Pledge](https://www.fpg.org.uk/updates/anti-racism-pledge/) - With the ongoing events of racist violence and discrimination against Black people in the US right now, we stand in solidarity with the countless communities that continue to suffer from racial inequalities. Having taken place in the context of centuries of social deprivation and injustices that have become a fabric of society, we recognise that

## Projects

- [Through the Lens](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/through-the-lens/) - Focal Point Gallery is excited to present our collaborative project 'Through the Lens', with South Essex Homes residents in three different accommodations. This project aimed at rethinking perceptions of temporary housing and sharing life from a fresh viewpoint. Participants received disposable cameras and a creative checklist to capture simple, everyday scenes like the view from
- [Souvenirs & Suburbia, Lu Williams](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/souvenirs-suburbia-lu-williams/) - Souvenirs & Suburbia takes the form of a large-scale fridge magnet and postcard on Southend Victoria Shopping Centre, referencing the tourist attractions, cultural icons, landscapes, and visual histories of the local area, celebrating Southend-on-Sea as a home, holiday destination and commuter hub. The work has been shaped by public contributions gathered through an open call,
- [Made from this Land](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/made-from-this-land-2/) - ‘Made from this Land’ a new public artwork by Emma Edmondson, commissioned by Focal Point Gallery and Southend City Council and conceived in response to Southchurch and Thorpe Bay’s rich brickfield history, which was launched in October 2024. Over the last two years, Emma Edmondson has researched extensively into the history of brickfields, connecting with
- [Relay](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/relay/) - ‘Relay’ was launched as a new initiative during lockdown 3.0 as a paid opportunity to support local creatives by showcasing their practice across the Gallery’s digital platforms and on Big Screen Southend, based on the structure of an intermission or public service announcement. Every two to three weeks, we platform the work of three Southend-based
- [Messages in the Sand - Intergenerational Project](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/messages-in-the-sand-intergenerational-project/) - Wyrd Flora are collaborating with FPG’s Contemporary Elders group and young people and families from local communities on a series of workshops to discover ways of highlighting what can be done to protect our environment, and what actions can be taken. These workshops aim to empower the oldest and youngest members of our community in skill-sharing,
- [Expecting Art](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/expecting-art/) - Focal Point Gallery delivered an exciting and innovative project in partnership with A Better Start Southend (ABSS); ‘Expecting Art’ led by artist Alison Garner and assisted by Hazel Sankey. ‘Expecting Art’ was a project to explore, develop and create an artistic outcome with a group of local pre-natal individuals that examined their experiences and expectations
- [FPG Sounds](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/fpg-sounds/) - A new project led by Focal Point Gallery brings together the works of 15 Southend artists to create a series of original sound works available to listen to online for free. Spoken word, experimental music, field recordings and podcasts set the stage for a diverse programme that celebrates the intuitive use of sound by Southend’s
- [Receiver Activity Sheet](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/receiver-creative-activities-sheet/) - Spoken word and mixed medium artist, Carrissa Baxter, has created an activity sheet inspired our current group exhibition 'Receiver'. Visit us today and pick up your activity sheet from our front desk! Alternatively, you can download the Activity Sheet here: Side 1 and Side 2 Carrissa Baxter - a contemporary artist that works in mixed
- [Othered in a region that has been historically Othered Activity Sheet](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/othered-in-a-region-that-has-been-historically-othered-activity-sheet/) - Jamaican-born artist Halina Edwards has created an activity sheet inspired by Elsa James’ exhibition ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’. Halina looks at culture and the concept of ‘home’, inspired by craft traditions and techniques. These creative activities are to encourage you to explore new art techniques by using materials at your
- [Relay](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/relay-2/) - FPG is delighted to be running 'Relay' this year. An initiative that was first started last year to support artists in a paid opportunity through lockdown 3.0, FPG would like to continue this programme in showcasing local artists work. Every two weeks, we will be platforming the work of three Southend-based creatives. Each artist will
- [Interview between Ekow Eshun and Elsa James](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/interview-between-ekow-eshun-ee-and-elsa-james-ej/) - The following interview between Ekow Eshun (EE) and Elsa James (EJ) took place on 31 May 2022 in relation to her solo exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’. EE I want to start by thinking about your new project ‘Othered in a region that has been historically
- [FPG postcards](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/fpg-postcards/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted to announce our most recent project, bringing together works by a group of Essex-based artists who provide a diverse and unique perspective through the medium of photography on Southend, South Essex and the Estuary. As part of our celebrated Printed Matter collection, the commissioned artworks will be presented on postcards, sales
- [Made from this Land](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/made-from-this-land/) - Focal Point Gallery and Southend Borough Council are delighted to announce that local artist Emma Edmondson has been selected to develop a site-specific public art commission in Southchurch, to launch in Spring 2022. On the deeds of many houses in Southchurch there is a covenant stating; residents are not allowed to make bricks or tiles
- [New Ways of Making - Teachers CPD Sessions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/teachers-cpd-sessions/) - Calling all teachers! Join Focal Point Gallery’s artist-led continuing development practice workshops for teachers of all subjects interested in creative thinking. ‘New Ways of Making’ is a series of 3, one hour online zoom sessions to inform the teaching and explanation of difference types of artform, led by specialist artists in these fields. Three areas
- [New Public Art Commission for Southend Town Centre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/new-public-art-commission-for-southend-town-centre/) - Focal Point Gallery and Creative Estuary are delighted to announce the commission of a new, major public artwork that will welcome visitors and residents to the UK’s newest City - Southend-On-Sea. Lu Williams’ impactful, ambitious, and fun concept will transform the current, uninspiring ‘gateway’ to the city’s famous High Street, as approached from Southend Victoria
- [New Model Village Activity Sheet](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/new-model-village-activity-sheet/) - Basildon based architect Laura Whiting has created an activity sheet inspired by Cui Jie's exhibition New Model Village. Laura was inspired by Cui's focus on architectural projects and material design, to creative activities to encourage you to explore the materials that have been used to build the gallery, at your home, or in your school,
- [Commissioned Essay](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/commissioned-essay-2/) - To accompany the debut screening of 'Parallel by Rosanna Lee, Focal Point Gallery have commissioned a new essay by curator Ruth Lie: A glance. A shift. The rubbing of a child’s rosy cheeks. A flash of orange. The nervous stroking of a thumb. The absent minded opening and closing of chopsticks. The slow unwrapping…Artist Rosanna Lee’s short
- [The Thames Estuary: A Creative Commons?](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/the-thames-estuary-a-creative-commons/) - A series of discussions exploring the public right to culture across Britain’s largest waterway. The Thames Estuary serves many purposes. As the country’s major waterway and shipping channel, it was once the centre of the British Empire controlling a quarter of the world’s land via sea. It includes some of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes
- [Art and The Environment Activity Pack](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/art-and-the-environment-activity-pack/) - To accompany our exhibition 'Tip of the Iceberg' (12 September 2021 to 9 January 2022) the FPG Learning Team has bought together three artists and community organisers to create art activities for all ages, centred around the use of natural and repurposed materials. Art and The Environment Activity PackDownload For use in schools, colleges, or
- [Graham Burnett's Activity Sheet](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/graham-burnetts-activity-sheet/) - Southend-based artist and permaculture practitioner, Graham Burnett has created a new drawing for ‘Tip of the Iceberg’, titled Roots and Branches, a Psychogeographical Mind Map. It uses the metaphor of a tree to represent the ecosystem of connections between people, projects, spaces and actions in Southend-on-Sea. When Graham was asked to take part in the exhibition,
- [Imagining a New Future](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/imagining-a-new-future/) - Focal Point Gallery is delighted that ‘Imagining a New Future’ will be exhibited on 39 banners along the thoroughfare of Southend High Street until October 2021. A joint project with The BID Southend the banners will present drawings, photos, and text from the project along with COVID safety messages. Over the unusual summer of 2020,
- [Contemporary Elders    Digital Connectivity](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/contemporary-elders-digital-connectivity/) - Focal Point Gallery and South Essex Homes have partnered up to explore the experiences of elder residents during lockdown and the digital connectivity available to them. Gabriella Milanese and Paul Bates, Realm Video were commissioned to make a pilot video with three householders, each of Kestral House, Shoeburyness, Norman Harris House and The Brambles, Southend
- [Vanishing Point](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/vanishing-point/) - Focal Point Gallery and Metal are delighted to announce a public art commission by US artist Mary Mattingly as part of Estuary 2021. Vanishing Point, an ambitious two part installation, comprising of a learning centre located on Southend Pier, and a floating sculpture moored in nearby waters considers how the plant life of the Thames
- [Commissioned Essay](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/commissioned-essay-3/) - To accompany Annabel Taylor Munt’s current Big Screen Southend Commission ‘Death of a Village’, Focal Point Gallery have commissioned a new essay by Curator, Georgia Taylor Aguilar. An audio version of this essay can also be found below: Annabel Taylor-Munt’s new moving image work, Death of a Village, is a fictional narrative that captures a
- [Activity Packs for 'Practice Makes Perfect'.](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/new-activity-packs/) - To accompany the exhibition 'Practice Makes Perfect', by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Focal Point Gallery are delighted to present activity packs designed by Meera Shakti Osborne for children, young people, and their learning leaders in response to the lack of black British history in the current UK curriculum. The packs are divided in to age-appropriate learning activities
- [Commissioned Essay](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/commissioned-essay/) - To accompany Rosa-Johan Uddoh's current exhibition 'Practice Makes Perfect’, Focal Point Gallery have commissioned a new essay by black feminist writer, researcher and organiser Lola Olufemi: There is a problem with History. The problem begins with the idea that History is the story of humanity featuring major and minor characters. To be included in the story is to know and
- [WINDRUSH: A TONGUE TWISTER](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/windrush-a-tongue-twister/) - STUART HALL: Britain’s relations with the peoples of the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent do not, of course, belong to and begin in the 1940s. British attitudes to the ex-colonial subject peoples of a former time cannot be charted from the appearance of a black proletariat in Birmingham or Bradford in the 1950s. These relations
- [The Future of the High Street](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/the-future-of-the-high-street/) - What does the future of the high street look like? ‘S for Southend’ is a new film by Aaron Shrimpton commissioned by Historic England and produced by Focal Point Gallery. Bringing together voices, memories and the inventive ideas of a local community in Southend-on-Sea, this short film catalogues the public consciousness around how we can
- [Public Address](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/public-address/) - For the fifth Focal Point Gallery commission for the Big Screen in Elmer Square, British artist Benedict Drew has been invited to make a new video work specifically for the screen. Public Address investigates the role of the screen in the dissemination of instructional public messages. Based on the north Kent coast, Drew is interested in
- [100% Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/100-southend/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘100% Southend’, a series of bespoke T-shirt and Fly-poster designs based on categorisations of how people engage with culture, which were developed in 2008 by Arts Council England. With percentage breakdowns included from a Government survey taken in Southend, the project allows the town to challenge the perceptions
- [Hammer House](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/hammer-house/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present Hammer House, an offsite commission by the British artist Simon Martin. This is the fourth artist commission in a series of gallery projects made specifically for the Railway Bridge spanning Southend’s High Street. For this commission, Martin presents two fifteen metre printed artworks installed on both sides of the
- [Spiral of Time Documentary Film 2013](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/spiral-of-time-documentary-film-2013/) - As part of a series of temporary commissions on the Public Screen in Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present the first UK showing of two new film works by Californian artist Jennifer West. The artist, who for over ten years, has gained international recognition for her explorations of materialism in film,
- [Survey](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/survey/) - 'Survey' was commissioned as part of the offsite project '31,838 feet from the wreck', a collaborative project by Dave Charlesworth and Richard Whitby. Through a map-style publication as well as a series of accompanying talks and events, the '31,838 feet from the wreck' project responds to the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, a munitions
- [New Theme Song](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/new-theme-song/) - ‘New Theme Song’ was commissioned as part of the offsite project ‘31,838 feet from the wreck’, a collaborative project by Dave Charlesworth and Richard Whitby. Through a map-style publication as well as a series of accompanying talks and events, the ‘31,838 feet from the wreck’ project responds to the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery,
- [31,838 feet from the wreck](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/31838-feet-from-the-wreck/) - '31,838 feet from the wreck' was a week-long project and publication by artists Dave Charlesworth and Richard Whitby. Through a map-style publication as well as a series of accompanying talks and events, the project responded to the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, a munitions ship that sank off the Isle of Sheppey in the
- [Looking at Poems](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/looking-at-poems/) - The Australian born artist Renee Vaughan Sutherland has collaborated with Southend-based film organisation, The White Bus, to create a film for the large public screen overlooking Elmer Square. Vaughan Sutherland has digitised and re-edited a selection of archival material spanning thirty years, and includes themes from photography and lightning strikes, to poetry and bikers. By
- [Excerpts from A Better Britain](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/excerpts-from-a-better-britain/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an offsite project by the British artist Scott King, as part of a series of artworks commissioned for the launch of the gallery’s new space. ‘Excerpts from A Better Britain’ 2013, comprises two 15m-long banners installed on either side of Southend’s railway bridge, placing two fictional dictionary definitions
- [ENDS THOU](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/ends-thou/) - Mark Titchner’s new solo project ‘ENDS THOU’ is the second in Focal Point Gallery’s series of temporary public artworks commissioned for the railway bridge that spans Southend-on-Sea’s pedestrianised high street. Titchner’s new offsite work comprises two separate but connected text pieces; installed on either side of the suspended metal bridge’s structure, each is visible for
- [There we will be buried](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/there-we-will-be-buried/) - There we will be buried A play by Yair Oelbaum featuring Yedidya Oelbaum, Jessica Polaniecki, Kai Althoff, Daniel Cowen and Alex Beth’ Thursday 3 November at 1.30pm Friday 4 November at 7.30pm Saturday 5 November at 7.30pm There we will be buried is a unique play written and produced by Yair Oelbaum specifically for the Dixon
- [Angel of History: I Can See for Miles](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/angel-of-history-i-can-see-for-miles/) - ‘Angel of History: I Can See for Miles’ is the first in Focal Point Gallery’s new series of temporary public artworks commissioned specifically for the railway bridge that spans Southend-on-Sea’s pedestrianised high street. For this inaugural project, artist John Russell has digitally reworked a famous portrait from 1981 of former British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret
- [Public Hanging](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/public-hanging/) - ‘Public Hanging’ is a new project by Morag Keil commissioned especially for Southend-on-Sea’s town centre. Keil has manufactured seven wall-mounted back-lit photographs to be hung in sequence on the exterior walls of The Royals Shopping Centre during July and August; produced with the specific purpose of being shown outside of a gallery, these works extend
- [More Nudes in Colour, Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/more-nudes-in-colour-southend/) - ‘More Nudes in Colour, Southend’ is a new series of temporary public sculptures produced by artist Keith Farquhar for Southend-on-Sea’s cliff gardens; the site of the town’s former attraction ‘Never Never Land’. The project develops the artist’s recent photo-sculptural works and presents them for the first time outside of the traditional gallery environment, as classical
- [New Geographies](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/new-geographies/) - As part of New Geographies, David Blandy, working with Focal Point Gallery, has proposed to make a work inspired by the insects and wildlife of Canvey Island. Blandy plans to create a new world within the game ‘Dungeons and Dragons’, working with local gaming communities to create monsters and characters, using roleplay to create a collective
- [EYECATCHER IV](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/eyecatcher-iv/) - 'EYECATCHER IV' is a programme of moving image including work by filmmaker Amir George and artist Sophie Hoyle, presented alongside Lindsay Seers, 'Every Thought There Ever Was' at Focal Point Gallery. This continued moving image programme seeks to provide focus for the work of artist filmmakers with the provision of a platform for the daily
- [Forgotten Black Essex](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/forgotten-black-essex/) - 'Forgotten Black Essex' comprises two new video works by Southend-based artist Elsa James, which will be screened on Big Screen Southend throughout October to mark Black History Month. Following a period of research and development, artist Elsa James presents Forgotten Black Essex, a personal aural and visual reflection concerning the historical accounts of two distinct black
- [Southend Shorts](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/and-when-returning-from-adventures-wild-the-shimmers-rise-again-oer-oceans-brink/) - Southend Shorts is a monthly screening programme on Big Screen Southend to profile work made specifically in response or relative to the context of Southend-on-Sea. The programme particularly welcomes the work of artists, filmmakers, individuals or groups based in Southend-on-Sea or across South Essex. As part of an open-call process, selected submissions are awarded a 1
- [Spender House](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/spender-house/) - Big Screen Southend is pleased to present a film by Emily Richardson which takes as its focus The Spender House, a 1960s steel-framed house designed by Richard and Su Rogers located in Essex. 'Spender House' by Emily Richardson will be screened from 10th to the 25th November 2018. ‘Spender House’ can be viewed on Big Screen
- [A Stitch Outside Time](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/a-stitch-outside-time/) - A Stitch Outside Time is a site specific permanent composition for the train journey between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness via Basildon, launching Saturday 19 January. It uses digital sound synthesis and GPS technology to create musical structures and sounds that respond to the train’s location. The patterns are based upon the Tala system, an
- [EYECATCHER V](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/eyecatcher-v/) - This continued moving image programme seeks to provide focus for the work of artist filmmakers with the provision of a platform for the daily screening of moving image in the public realm. ‘EYECATCHER’ refers to the motif of the Big Screen as a feature that commands or enhances our attention as we enter Elmer Square.
- [The World After](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/the-world-after/) - Join our Kickstarter Campaign to help support David Blandy's new collaborative gaming project 'The World After'. This Tabletop Roleplaying Game has been formed through collaborative sessions across the UK, specifically influenced by the wildlife and landscape of Canvey Wick; a post-industrial nature reserve located on Canvey Island in Essex, UK. With the rules, gameplay and designs having
- [Electric Orange/Automatic Blue](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/electric-orange-automatic-blue/) - Focal Point Gallery and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council are delighted to announce an ambitious new site-specific public art commission by Southend born artist Bridget Smith. To celebrate two former industrial laundries, The Albany and Sunlight, Smith has created a new public artwork sited in two locations along the Prittle Brook Greenway on the bridges at Eastwood
- [Artist-in-Residence](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/artist-in-residence/) - As part of the Radical ESSEX programme, in collaboration with University of Essex Social Sciences Faculty and Art Exchange, we are delighted to announce Alicja Rogalska as our artist-in-residence. In a project devised by the three partners, Alicja will work in residence with academics in the Social Sciences Faculty to develop a new body of work culminating in a exhibition at Art Exchange,
- [I Woke Up This Morning](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/i-woke-up-this-morning/) - Performance One: 2.30pm Performance Two: 3.30pm I Woke Up This Morning is a new one–act play by Edward Thomasson about harmony, disharmony, and falling in and out of time. The play follows six members of a fictional gay men’s choir as they learn, repeat and perfect a harmony. While they work together, they share their
- [EYECATCHER VI](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/eyecatcher-vi/) - This continued moving image programme seeks to provide focus for the work of artist filmmakers with the provision of a platform for the daily screening of moving image in the public realm. ‘EYECATCHER’ refers to the motif of the Big Screen as a feature that commands or enhances our attention as we enter Elmer Square.
- [Why Don't You...](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/why-dont-you/) - In the spirit of the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?, we’ve launched a new online programme with suggestions for how to keep you - and your fellow self-isolators - entertained and stimulated AWAY from the screen. Each instalment, launching
- [Southend Shorts](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/southend-shorts/) - Southend Shorts is a monthly screening programme on Big Screen Southend to profile work made specifically in response or relative to the context of Southend-on-Sea. The programme particularly welcomes the work of artists, filmmakers, individuals or groups based in Southend-on-Sea or across South Essex. As part of an open-call process, selected submissions are awarded a 1
- [800,000 tonnes: Waste Management and Recycling in Essex with Eloise Hawser](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/800000-tonnes/) - 800,000 tonnes: Waste Management and Recycling in Essex is a programme of displays, site tours, and discussions that will map waste in Essex past and present. This programme is presented by artist Eloise Hawser as part of Focal Point Gallery's Radical ESSEX programme. Historically, Essex has been home to some of the largest landfills in
- [Shoebury Park Public Art Project](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/shoebury-park-public-art-project/) - In 2016 artist Kieren Reed was commissioned by Focal Point Gallery and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council to create a public art commission in response to Shoebury Park in Shoeburyness, Essex. Reed spent two years visiting the park to develop a new project that merges the interests of the young people he has met with his own
- [The Wanderer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/the-wanderer/) - In response to 'The Lathe of Heaven', Ursula K. Le Guin's novel that inspired 'To Dream Effectively', composer M.J. Harding and writer and curator Sarah Shin present the text and audio work 'The Wanderer'. 'The Wanderer' draws on Le Guin's theories of narrative, animist approaches to language, dreams, wandering and world-building and multiple realities. The
- [Voices for Change](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/voices-for-change/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new film by Southend for Black Lives Matter. Screened daily at 12.00pm and 2.00pm on Big Screen Southend and available here online concurrently from 10 to 31 October. Southend for Black Lives Matter will also be hosting an online premiere of the film at 7:30pm via their
- [Compendium Film Music Vol.1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/compendium-film-music-vol-1/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a newly commissioned audio work by artist Larry Achiampong as part of our current exhibition 'To Dream Effectively'. ‘Compendium Film Music Vol. 1’ collects a range of musical tracks composed, produced and mixed by Achiampong In all of his films to date Achiampong has always scored and generated
- [The World and The World](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/the-world-and-the-world/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a newly commissioned audio-work by artist Caspar Heinemann as part of the group exhibition 'To Dream Effectively'. Starting from the artist's research into CIA-affiliated psychic Ingo Swann, 'The World and The World' is an audio exploration of productivity, imagination, and song. Inspired by the stream of consciousness rambles
- [Fantasias](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/fantasias/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new temporary public commission for the High Street’s railway bridge by Guatemalan-based artist Elisabeth Wild, the artist’s first exhibition in the UK. 'Fantasias' consists of two new site specific works developed for the bridge made in response to Southend’s history and identity as a seaside town, in
- [To Dream Effectively Activity Pack](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/to-dream-effectively-activity-pack/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present activity packs referencing 'To Dream Effectively'. Each pack is broken down into activities that can be accessed at different levels; ages 7 to 11 years and two for ages over 12 years. We recognise that there are a wide range of interests and access levels within these recommended age
- [Now You See Me](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/now-you-see-me/) - To accompany Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings' current exhibition 'In My Room', Focal Point Gallery have commissioned a new essay by Rosanna Mclaughlin. Read 'Now You See Me' in full here.
- [YOU ARE NOT ALONE](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/you-are-not-alone/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘YOU ARE NOT ALONE’, a temporary public artwork commissioned specifically for Southend High Street’s railway bridge by Southend-based artist Scottee. Installed on either side of the suspended metal bridge, the commission will be visible for a half mile along the town’s main thoroughfare. This year marks fifty years
- [As The Order Grew](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/artists-studios-commission/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a temporary public artwork by Southend artist David Watkins, commissioned for the external hoardings that are currently installed around the site of the former Beecroft Gallery located on Station Road in Westcliff. Painted directly on to the façade of the structure, this site-specific work will be visible until
- [AN INVOCATION - Five Hundred and Thirty Books from Southend Central Library](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/an-invocation-five-hundred-and-thirty-books-from-southend-central-library-2/) - For this permanent commission, Mike Nelson is working directly with the architects and contractors of the new Focal Point Gallery, in order to create a unique artwork housed within a void space between two internal walls of the gallery. Measuring only 0.8m deep by 4.5m long, the space will eventually be inaccessible to staff and
- [Questions and Answers no. 1](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/questions-and-answers-no-1/) - As part of a series of artist commissions launched to coincide with the opening of the new Focal Point Gallery in autumn 2013, American artist Allen Ruppersberg will undertake a unique public artwork for the exterior façade of the new building. A pioneer of Conceptual Art, Ruppersberg began exhibiting in Los Angeles in the late
- [Blue Gloves and Tigers](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/blue-gloves-and-tigers/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘Blue Gloves and Tigers’, a new commission from British artist Jefford Horrigan for the gallery’s Window Space and the Big Screen in Elmer Square. Jefford Horrigan makes performances and short films rooted in sculpture and drawing. For this new work, the artist presents three new video-performances that move
- [Tiles and Tides](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/tiles-and-tides/) - As part of a series of artist commissions launched to coincide with the opening of the new Focal Point Gallery in autumn 2013, Tris Vonna-Michell has been asked to design and produce a bespoke reception desk for the entrance foyer. Drawing aesthetic parallels with the distinctive architectural features of the current Southend Central Library, the
- [Credits](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/credits/) - From: Hannah Black Sent: 28 April 2016 11:31 To: Ellen Greig Subject: Credits hi Ellen sorry for sending this so late! when we first talked on the phone you told me about how a lot of people in Southend used to work for Access, the credit card company that was the first of its kind
- [TRACKINGSHOT 1.](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/trackingshot-1/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a weekend of broadcasts on Big Screen Southend from Trackingshot, a site responsive collaborative project by artists Rebecca Birch, Leah Capaldi, George Charman and Adam Knight, in partnership with Field Broadcast. Trackingshot investigates frontier spaces through art practice and cross-disciplinary research. ‘Trackingshot.1 Desert Sessions’ took place in the
- [A Retreat in Time](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/a-retreat-in-time/) - Big Screen Southendruns an ongoing programme of artist films to coincide with a quarterly artist commission led by Focal Point Gallery. Each quarter is presented in association with the gallery programme and is viewable on a daily schedule between 8.00-10.00am, 12.00-2.00pm, 4.00-6.00pm 7 days a week. To coincide with 'Exhibition for Go-Getters', the first major
- [EYECATCHER II](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/eyecatcher-ii/) - Georgia Lucas-Going Marianne Murray Tilly Shiner Rhea Storr First presented in early 2017, this continued series seeks to provide focus for the work of emerging moving image artists with the provision of a platform for the daily screening of artist moving image in the public realm.‘EYECATCHER’ refers to the motif of the Big Screen as
- [as far as I know](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/as-far-as-i-know/) - For its sixth offsite commission for the Big Screen in Elmer Square, Focal Point Gallery has invited the British artist Phil Coy to create a two-part project comprised from choreographed public performances and generative, networked videos, to consider the merging of public and private spaces. ‘as far as I know’ draws on the gallery’s location
- [Black Bile 84](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/black-bile-84/) - Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a new series of works by Southend-born artist, Rick Buckley. Split between the gallery and the Pavilion at the end of Southend’s pier, this is the first time the gallery has installed work on this iconic landmark. In the Pavilion’s main space, Buckley presents a three screen video
- [Flood House' and 'All Distinctions Levelled](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/flood-house-and-all-distinctions-levelled/) - ‘Flood House’ is a prototype structure that is both a practical and poetic investigation into the living conditions of a seasonally flooded landscape. It will function as part projected future dwelling and part practical laboratory, monitoring the very particular weather conditions of the Thames Estuary in southeast England. The structure will be moored at various
- [EYECATCHER](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/eyecatcher/) - Milo Creese Cynthia Cruz and Simon Howlett (GROK) Eva Fàbregas Gillian Wylde Big Screen Southend is pleased to present ‘EYECATCHER’, a selection of video work from seven artists as part of its on-going programme of artist moving image to coincide with Focal Point Gallery's gallery programme. ‘EYECATCHER’ refers to the motive of Big Screen as
- [ARC Creative Libraries Programme](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/arc-creative-libraries-programme/) - The Forum in Southend is simultaneously home to a university, public library and gallery and this utopian collection of institutions provides the context for the project. As part of ARC’s ongoing programme at the intersection of performance politics and popular culture, Leykauf and Beasley will be carrying out research projects in response to the social,
- [EYECATCHER III](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/eyecatcher-iii/) - Alison Ballard Hazel Brill Nikhil Vettukattil Sam Williams This continued series seeks to provide focus for the work of emerging artist filmmakers with the provision of a platform for the daily screening of moving image in the public realm.‘EYECATCHER’ refers to the motif of the Big Screen as a feature that commands or enhances our
- [Estuary à la mode](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/estuary-a-la-mode/) - Big Screen Southend is pleased to present 'Estuary à la mode' by artist Rick Buckley. Screened in the intermission period as Focal Point Gallery prepares for the launch of a new exhibition, the film will screen on a daily basis from 10.00am to 6.00pm. 4K. 2016, 00:05:15 min stereo sound In Plato’s ‘Ion’, poets are
- [Marc Camille Chaimowicz](https://www.fpg.org.uk/project/marc-camille-chaimowicz/) - 'Curtain for Focal Point' 'Seating for Focal Point' 'Three-part Screen for Focal Point' As part of a series of artist commissions launched to coincide with the opening of the new Focal Point Gallery in autumn 2013, Marc Camille Chaimowicz has been asked to design a bespoke, movable seating arrangement for the entrance space, as well

## Artists

- [Tris Vonna-Michell](https://www.fpg.org.uk/artist/tris-vonna-michell/) - 'Tiles & Tides'
- [Marc Camille Chaimowicz](https://www.fpg.org.uk/artist/marc-camille-chaimowicz/) - 'Curtain for Focal Point' 'Seating for Focal Point' 'Three-part Screen for Focal Point'
- [Allen Ruppersberg](https://www.fpg.org.uk/artist/allen-ruppersberg/) - 'Questions & Answers no.1'
- [Mike Nelson](https://www.fpg.org.uk/artist/mike-nelson/) - 'AN INVOCATION - Five Hundred and Thirty Books from Southend Central Library'

## Printed Matter

- [We Have Rather Been Invaded](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/we-have-rather-been-invaded/)
- [Radical ESSEX](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/radical-essex-2/)
- [FPG Tote Bags](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/9855-2/)
- [After the end of history invitation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/after-the-end-of-history-invitation/) - ‘After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024’ is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition curated by Johny Pitts.
- [#92 John Wonnacott 'The Estuary'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/john-wonnacott-the-estuary-2/)
- [David Blandy 'The World After'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/david-blandy-the-world-after/)
- [Liz Magor, The Rise and The Fall](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/9126-2/)
- ['Principal Boy' Poster](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/principal-boy-poster/)
- [Radical ESSEX Architecture Weekender T-Shirt](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/radical-essex-architecture-weekender-t-shirt/)
- [The Storm](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-storm-rebecca-chesney-and-lubaina-himid/)
- [Elsa James Editions](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/work-no-32-the-fire-alarm/)
- [Basildon 001](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/basildon-001/)
- [Massenaufnahme (Mass Recording)](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/massenaufnahme-mass-recording/)
- [Savoir Faire](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/2563-2/)
- [Savoir Faire](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/savoir-faire/)
- [Baby Vuitton](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/baby-vuitton/)
- [Weather Pattern](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/weather-pattern/)
- [Ellen Perrier's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/ellen-perriers-self-portrait/)
- [Yoojin Lee's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/yoojin-lees-self-portrait/)
- [Callum Hill's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/callum-hills-self-portrait/)
- [Tilly Shiner's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/tilly-shiners-self-portrait/)
- [Maz Murray's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/maz-murrays-self-portrait/)
- [Rafal Zajko's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rafal-zajkos-self-portrait/)
- [Alison Ballance's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/alison-ballances-self-portrait/)
- [Nadia Thondrayen's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/nadia-thondrayens-self-portrait/)
- [Karin Felbermayr's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/karin-felbermayrs-self-portrait/)
- [Rachel Champion's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rachel-champions-self-portrait/)
- [Mat Do's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/mat-dos-self-portrait/)
- [Paul Johnson's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/paul-johnsons-self-portrait/)
- [Phil Coy's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/phil-coys-self-portrait/)
- [Bridget Smith's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/bridget-smiths-self-portrait/)
- [Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/sophie-sleigh-johnsons-self-portrait/)
- [David Watkins' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/david-watkins-self-portrait/)
- [Jefford Horrigan's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/jefford-horrigans-self-portrait/)
- [Barry Sykes' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/barry-sykes-self-portrait/)
- [Volker Eichelmann's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/volker-eichelmanns-self-portrait/)
- [Lucy Woodhouse's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/lucy-woodhouses-self-portrait/)
- [Emily Perry's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/emily-perrys-self-portrait/)
- [David Blandy's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/david-blandys-self-portrait/)
- [Katie Turnball's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/katie-turnballs-self-portrait/)
- [Taylor Jack Smith's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/taylor-jack-smiths-self-portrait/)
- [Claire Barrett's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/claire-barretts-self-portrait/)
- [Damien Robinson's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/damien-robinsons-self-portrait/)
- [Lu Williams' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/lu-williams-self-portrait/)
- [Phillipa Stewart's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/phillipa-stewarts-self-portrait/)
- [Rachel McGivern's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rachel-mcgiverns-self-portrait/)
- [An English Garden](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/an-english-garden/)
- [#Princess Artie en Fleur](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/princess-artie-en-fleur-2/)
- [Focal Point Gallery Rock](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/focal-point-gallery-rock/)
- [Alison Ballard's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/alison-ballards-self-portrait/)
- [Peter Oetzmann's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/peter-oetzmanns-self-portrait/)
- [Alicja Rogalska's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/alicja-rogalskas-self-portrait/)
- [Alan Kane's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/alan-kanes-self-portrait/)
- [Cullinan Richards' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/cullinan-richards-self-portrait/)
- [Simon Davenport's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/simon-davenports-self-portrait/)
- [Rachel Cattle's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rachel-cattles-self-portrait/)
- [Zoe Beloff's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/zoe-beloffs-self-portrait/)
- [Dean Kenning's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/dean-kennings-self-portrait/)
- ['Radical ESSEX' Postcards](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/radical-essex-postcards/)
- [The Waves Have Pushed Me 496](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-waves-have-pushed-me-496/)
- [Cui Jie New Model Village](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/cui-jie-new-model-village/)
- [The Waves Have Pushed Me 749](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-waves-have-pushed-me-749/)
- [Bingo](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/bingo/)
- [Johnny DePhilo's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/johnny-dephilos-self-portrait/)
- [Nike Savvas's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/nike-savvass-self-portrait/)
- [Paul Ryan's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/paul-ryans-self-portrait/)
- [Tim Blake's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/tim-blakes-self-portrait/)
- [Roger Hopgood's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/roger-hopgoods-self-portrait/)
- [Snooker](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/snooker/)
- [Chrystel Lebas' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/chrystel-lebas-self-portrait/)
- [Michael Collins' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/michael-collins-self-portrait/)
- [Andy Rees' Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/andy-rees-self-portrait/)
- [John Timberlake's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/john-timberlakes-self-portrait/)
- [Les Bicknell's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/les-bicknells-self-portrait/)
- [Neville Smith's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/neville-smiths-self-portrait/)
- [Suky Best's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/suky-bests-self-portrait/)
- [Pioneer Species](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/pioneer-species/)
- [David Bate's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/david-bates-self-portrait/)
- [Tariq Alvi's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/tariq-alvis-self-portrait/)
- [Blue Carbon](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/blue-carbon/)
- [Jonty Lee's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/jonty-lees-self-portrait/)
- [Doug Fishbone's Self-Portrait](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/doug-fishbones-self-portrait/)
- [Tip of the Iceberg](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/tip-of-the-iceberg/)
- [Rosa-Johan Uddoh Practice Makes Perfect](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rosa-johan-uddoh-practice-makes-perfect/)
- [Vanishing Point](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/vanishing-point-zine/)
- [A.C.A.B](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/a-c-a-b/)
- [30th Anniversary Tea Towel](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/30th-anniversary-tea-towel/)
- [Leyla Pillai '3 + 3 = 7'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/3-3-7/)
- [Elizabeth Price Posters 3 for £50](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/elizabeth-price-posters-3-for-50/)
- [Elizabeth Price 'MATCHES, DEAD' Poster](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/elizabeth-price-matches-dead-poster/)
- [Elizabeth Price 'MATCHES, LIVE' poster](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/elizabeth-price-matches-live-poster/)
- [Yossi at The Cliffs](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/yossi-at-the-cliffs/)
- [Elizabeth Price 'K' Poster](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/elizabeth-price-k-poster/)
- [Invitation Lucky Dip 5 for 3](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/invitation-lucky-dip-5-for-3/)
- [Invitation Lucky Dip 3 for 2](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/invitation-lucky-dip-3-for-2/)
- [To Dream Effectively](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/to-dream-effectively/)
- [Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings 'In My Room'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/hannah-quinlan-and-rosie-hastings-in-my-room/)
- [The World After](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-world-after/)
- [Liz Arnold, Maria Farrar and Samara Scott 'Day Tripper'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/liz-arnols-maria-farrar-and-samara-scott-day-tripper/)
- [Bridget Smith 'Electric Orange/Automatic Blue'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/bridget-smith-electric-orange-automatic-blue/)
- [The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-concept-of-time-is-intrinsically-incoherent/)
- [#86 Two Plants In Dip - Becky Beasley](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/86-two-plants-in-dip-becky-beasley/)
- [John Wonnacott 'The Estuary'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/john-wonnacott-the-estuary/)
- [Mark Fell 'The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent'](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/mark-fell-the-concept-of-time-is-intrinsically-incoherent/)
- [Every Thought There Ever Was](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/every-thought-there-ever-was/)
- [CAMULODUNUM](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/camulodunum/)
- [Public Address](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/public-address-2/)
- [Black Bile 84](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/black-bile-84-2/)
- [Chthonic Index](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/chthonic-index-2/)
- [There we will be buried](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/there-we-will-be-buried-2/)
- [3 before 8](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/3-before-8-2/)
- [Stand Up Now](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/stand-up-now-2/)
- [Untitled](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/untitled/)
- [A Detour Around Infermental](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/a-detour-around-infermental-2/)
- [Save the library campaign](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/save-the-library-campaign/)
- [Rough Copse Serenade](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rough-copse-serenade/)
- [Club Dada](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/club-dada/)
- [Untitled](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/untitled-2/)
- [THE TRIUMPH OF DE-REGENERATION – LEE BRILLEAUX 1952-1994](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-triumph-of-de-regeneration-lee-brilleaux-1952-1994/)
- [The Other Languages, Nefarious](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-other-languages-nefarious/)
- [# Archive](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/archive/)
- [Community](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/community/)
- [beaT bouT](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/beat-bout/)
- [#STANDARDISER_CHARM](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/standardiser_charm/)
- [patch - cyclone - hand](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/patch-cyclone-hand-3/)
- [BOGOF](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/bogof/)
- [Uprise](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/uprise/)
- [Dog and Bone](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/dog-and-bone/)
- [Double Sunset](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/double-sunset/)
- [Performances 2006 to 2009](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/performances-2006-to-2009-2/)
- [Performances 2006 to 2009](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/performances-2006-to-2009/)
- [Out There, Not Us](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/out-there-not-us-2/)
- [Beware of the dog](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/7829-2/)
- [Out There, Not Us](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/out-there-not-us/)
- [The Dead Travel Fast](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-dead-travel-fast/)
- [Intersections in the Art of Elsa James](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/intersections-in-the-art-of-elsa-james/)
- [Sounds of the Sea and Shops](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/sounds-of-the-sea-and-shops/)
- [Let's Take Back Our Space](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/lets-take-back-our-space-2/)
- [No more racing in circles – just pacing within lines of a rectangle](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/no-more-racing-in-circles-just-pacing-within-lines-of-a-rectangle-2/)
- [No more racing in circles – just pacing within lines of a rectangle](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/no-more-racing-in-circles-just-pacing-within-lines-of-a-rectangle/)
- [Me, You, Us, Them](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/me-you-us-them/)
- [New Wooabbeleri](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/new-wooabbeleri-2/)
- [New Wooabbeleri](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/new-wooabbeleri/)
- [Let's Take Back Our Space](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/lets-take-back-our-space/)
- [Infermental](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/infermental/)
- [The ticket is for today](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-ticket-is-for-today/)
- [The Empty Plan](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-empty-plan/)
- [Dummy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/dummy-2/)
- [Dummy](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/dummy/)
- [Anti-Photography](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/anti-photography/)
- [More Nudes in Colour, Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/more-nudes-in-colour-southend/)
- [Orbitecture II: Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/orbitecture-ii-everything-under-heaven-is-in-utter-chaos-the-situation-is-excellent/)
- [Please do not place drinks on vitrines or books](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/please-do-not-place-drinks-on-vitrines-or-books/)
- [Outrageous Fortune: Artist Remake the Tarot](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/outrageous-fortune-artist-remake-the-tarot/)
- [Public Hanging](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/public-hanging/)
- [The Year of the left hand' / 'Folkal Point](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-year-of-the-left-hand-folkal-point/)
- [Angel of History: I Can See for Miles](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/angel-of-history-i-can-see-for-miles/)
- [Outrageous Fortune Tarot Deck](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/outrageous-fortune-tarot-deck/)
- [Kaiki', 'There will be buried](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/kaiki-there-will-be-buried/)
- [Jean Genet… The Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Three, featuring Dan Fox](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/jean-genet-the-courtesy-of-objects-chapter-three-featuring-dan-fox/)
- [Thames Delta – Part One](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/thames-delta-part-one/)
- [Thames Delta – Part Two](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/thames-delta-part-two/)
- [THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/this-this-monster-this-things-2/)
- [THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/this-this-monster-this-things/)
- [ENDS THOU](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/ends-thou/)
- [Anna Parkina](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/anna-parkina-2/)
- [Kitty Kraus](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/kitty-kraus/)
- [The Goldmine Ten Theses on Music](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-goldmine-ten-theses-on-music/)
- [In the disappearing mist, the gift whispers](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/in-the-disappearing-mist-the-gift-whispers/)
- [Anna Parkina](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/anna-parkina/)
- [Focal Point Gallery Plastic Bag](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/focal-point-gallery-plastic-bag/)
- [What Happened to Helen](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/what-happened-to-helen/)
- [Working Together: Notes on British Film Collectives in the 1970](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/working-together-notes-on-british-film-collectives-in-the-1970/)
- [Focal Point Gallery Bookmark](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/focal-point-gallery-bookmark/)
- [Video](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/video/)
- [WRITTEN ON THE WIND](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/written-on-the-wind/)
- [SUNLIGHT](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/sunlight/)
- [AN INVOCATION - Five hundred and thirty books from Southend Central Library](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/an-invocation-five-hundred-and-thirty-books-from-southend-central-library/)
- [Capitol Complex / Ulterior Vistas](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/capitol-complex-ulterior-vistas/)
- [31,383 feet from the wreck](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/31383-feet-from-the-wreck/)
- [Endears me, yet remains](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/endears-me-yet-remains/)
- [Announcer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/announcer-2/)
- [Hammer House](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/hammer-house/)
- [Announcer](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/announcer/)
- [100% Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/100-southend-2/)
- [Tooth House' and 'Public Address](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/tooth-house-and-public-address/)
- [100% Southend](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/100-southend/)
- [#STANDARDISER](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/standardiser/)
- [Broadsheet #7](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/broadsheet-7/)
- [Public Address](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/public-address/)
- [Broadsheet #8](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/broadsheet-8/)
- [The Sunless Sea](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-sunless-sea/)
- [Black Bile 84](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/black-bile-84/)
- [If You Want To Talk About Light You Have To Talk About Waves](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/if-you-want-to-talk-about-light-you-have-to-talk-about-waves/)
- [The Bear Pit', 'Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery' and 'Chthonic Index](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/the-bear-pit-graphics-interchange-format-25-years-of-focal-point-gallery-and-chthonic-index/)
- [duh? Art & Stupidity](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/duh-art-stupidity/)
- [CANWEYE { }](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/canweye/)
- [#75](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/75-2/)
- [On Peacock Island](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/on-peacock-island/)
- [Maximum Overdrive](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/maximum-overdrive/)
- [Theatre](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/theatre/)
- [Other Voices, Other Rooms' and 'Caprona](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/2281-2/)
- [Other Voices, Other Rooms](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/other-voices-other-rooms/)
- [Get Out and Push!](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/get-out-and-push/)
- [Refrain/One Love Nation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/452-2/)
- [Radical ESSEX](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/radical-essex/)
- [Exhibition for Go-Getters](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/exhibition-for-go-getters/)
- [On Peacock Island](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/volker-eichelmann/)
- [New Model Village](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/8167-2/)
- [Practice Makes Perfect](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/practice-makes-perfect/)
- [Elsa James, Othered in a region that has been historically Othered](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/8530-2/)
- [Appau Jr Boayke-Yiadom, Frazer Merrick, Joe Namy, Nastassja Simensky, Receiver](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/appau-jr-boayke-yiadom-frazer-merrick-joe-namy-nastassja-simensky-receiver/)
- [Southend On Zine](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/southend-on-zine/)
- [Tim Burrows - The Invention of Essex](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/tim-burrows-the-invention-of-essex/)
- [Rebecca Moss, Unstable Condition](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/rebecca-moss-unstable-condition-exhibition-invitation/)
- [Storm Warning Invitation](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/storm-warning-invitation/)
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- [Work No. 25: Living Here](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/work-no-25-living-here/)
- [Work No. 24: The Pram](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/work-no-24-the-pram/)
- [Work No. 23: Outdoor Walks](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/work-no-23-outdoor-walks/)
- [Work No. 22: The Leaving Do](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/work-no-22-the-leaving-do/)
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- [Work No. 30: The Commuter Train](https://www.fpg.org.uk/printed-matter/work-no-30-the-commuter-train/)
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