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Check out all the photos and footage from the Private View on Idea13 HERE.

Thank you to all our volunteers and guests this evening - photos going up tomorrow... XXX

Check out Idea13 for photos and video interviews with some of the exhibiting artists...

Artists take note!  The first scheduled MEET is taking place tomrrow night at TAP, 8-10pm.  Meet is a critique group for artists to meet and discuss work, ideas, materials and exhibitions; essentially to provide a structured, regular, live forum where artists can make, exchange and evolve together.  More information can be found on the website http://www.artistsmeet.co.uk/

Bring refreshments!

Very very sad news.  Cheryl Lane one of the exhibiting artists has passed away.  Everyone at CoExist extends heartfelt sympathy to her husband and family.

Cheryl was an inspiration to so many people.

Please note that the gallery is open at the following REVISED times during shows in 2010:


Thurs & Fri 10am - 2pm
Sat & Sun12 noon - 4pm

Thanks to all who put on their sturdiest boots and tramped through the snow and ice for the Private View tonight!  beforeBETWEENbeyond will run for the next three weeks, open Thurs/Fri 10-2pm and Sat/Sun 10-4pm but obviously please do check this website before setting off in case of changes to times or closures due to the snow.

Over Christmas one of our studio artists Laura Keeble revealed her latest work - an installation of carousel horses outside the Bank of England. 

"Twelve carousel horses have taken centre stage at the heart of London’s financial district of Bank, commenting on the controversial issue of large annual bonuses awarded to prosperous earners in the city, many responsible for the economic meltdown. In the wake of Alistair Darling’s introduction of the 50% “super-tax”, it reflects the views of the city as a financial playground.

Southend-based artist Laura Keeble has installed this new site-specific artwork outside London’s Bank of England. Decorated with issues of The Financial Times, lights and garlands made from replicated international bank notes, the bucking and galloping horses sit upon their golden poles, circling the area. Reflecting the ups and downs of the world’s stock market, Keeble’s fairground horses mock the volatility of the financial climate and how many city investors have benefited from these turbulent times."

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/carousel-horses-at-bank-of-england-feature-3583.html

Southend's bid to become the first UK City of Culture 2013 is gathering pace as the numbers of accepted challengers were announced this week, reduced from a previous 26 to now only 14 regions.  National Arts and Culture website Culture24 discusses the bids HERE, and we're thrilled that TAP has been mentioned and pictured...

Come to CoExist Gallery @ TAP TONIGHT between 7-9pm to see the preview of two new shows there:

1) MAIN GALLERY & WINCH ROOM: EXPOSURE

Exposure WEBSITE.

2) THE SMALL GALLERY: FRAN WILDE - ‘Handed’: Videos from a visit to India

Fran Wilde has a long standing fascination with landscape and constructed spaces and more recently she has been interested in stories that arise when people enter the scene. These six short films represent experiments by Fran in editing footage, photographs and sound that she recorded with a compact digital camera on a trip to India in February 2009. Fran’s interest in India comes from contact with grass-roots development NGOs there.

- ‘STEPS’ was filmed in a rare stepped well in Gujarat where people walk down to the ground water level.

- ‘CAROUSEL’ is a marriage of traffic filmed from an auto taxi in Baroda and the mechanical music of a fairground roundabout at Bushy Park, Surrey.

- ‘NIGHT CALLS’ is edited call-and-response by two singers heard early morning from a Sikh temple in Delhi.

- ‘IN DEO SPERAMUS: IN GOD WE TRUST’ Ganesh, the God of New Beginnings, is prepared by music students at the Madras Music Academy.

- ‘HANDED’ considers the hands-on nature of life in India. People have an everyday dexterity not seen in the UK and hand posture is symbolically significant for Gods and dancers.

- ‘COUCHED’ uses photos taken on an overnight train. The drawing is based on a traditional style of textile art called Kalumkari (pen work), also seen in ‘Handed’.

COEXIST GALLERY @ TAP, North Rd, Southend, www.coexist.org.uk