Fandangoe Kid, SKIP Gallery and CAUKIN Studio launch candy-coloured ice-cream kiosk ‘Fandangoe SKIP’ in support of mental health

The ‘Fandangoe SKIP’ in collaboration with SKIP Gallery
Greenwich Peninsula – 1 – 10 July 2022
Canary Wharf – 21 July – 6 August 2022

London based print artist Fandangoe Kid announces her latest community art set up The ‘Fandangoe SKIP’ in collaboration with SKIP Gallery, The Loss Venture and Caukin Studio. The candy-coloured, ice-cream-kiosk-in-a-skip will to start with surface in Greenwich Peninsula this July, positioned in entrance of Now Gallery, and then Canary Wharf as element of Pageant 14 afterwards that thirty day period to host no cost mental health workshops and provide up free scoops of Fandangoe flavoured ice product made by ‘A Portuguese Like Affair’. It will then make its way on to the Major Apple, subsequent a commission by BBC Environment Services to doc Fandangoe Kid’s function.

Having all the hard perform from the earlier year’s Fandangoe Whip, which observed commissions by Tate, Canary Wharf Team, South London Gallery, and Design Museum to deliver ice cream and workshops on creativity as catharsis. Fandangoe SKIP moves into a even larger and a lot more much-reaching collaboration with a completely integrated arts and mental wellbeing programme. All workshops will be available both of those in human being and on line, booked by way of a QR code affixed to the Fandangoe SKIP.

SKIP Gallery has a name for their punk-like spirit and has popped up in surprising spots through collaborations with significant up to date artists together with the likes of Gavin Turk, Richard Woods and David Shrigley. In this new collaboration with Fandangoe Child, they will unleash a further eruption of artwork to delight and intrigue the general public. Fandangoe Kid is a print artist who will make big-scale narrative pushed items for the general public realm. Her work seeks to smash taboos all-around psychological well being, grief, reduction, trauma, and gender constructs. Besides producing colour infused community art, the multidisciplinary artist also works by using movie, fashion, and workshops to explore universal
human activities and spotlight the urgency of activism for a superior and additional sustainable foreseeable future.

This stand-out kiosk will be produced of sustainable materials in collaboration with CAUKIN Studio a social enterprise that makes effects by way of architecture. Combining Fandangoe’s signature visual style – graphic textual content and pattern executed in bold and pastel shades, to celebrate the complete rainbow spectrum of the human practical experience. Consider swirling cones and bubble gum pinks, graphic textual content this kind of as ‘Grief Wallops!’ in sunshine hues and colours. Working and actively playing with the type and dimensions of the skip, CAUKIN inverts the layout for the floating canopy, taking a visually heavyweight characteristic and remaking it with lightweight timber, permitting the addition of creative openings, fold-down hatches and doorways.

For the general public workshops, they have designed seating for exterior, centered all over the centerstage – although, in a considerate and impressive layout touch, for 1-2-1 periods the full structure can be folded down to make the preferred stage of privacy. The total house manages to be both equally compassionate and enjoyment-loving contained underneath a vibrant parasol shade.

“We’re super energized to be partnering with Fandangoe Kid and Skip Gallery on the
Fandangoe Skip – an ice cream ‘’truck’’ for psychological overall health. The art set up will provide a programme of psychological wellbeing workshops and occasions together with tasty scoops of ice cream! Housed in a skip or a dumpster, we really like the plan of someplace employed to unload one thing extra intangible these as our ideas and emotions.” CAUKIN Studio

Fandangoe’s do the job is driven by her very own tale pursuing the reduction of spouse and children users in 2011. Her apply is influenced by the drive to produce a system for open dialogue all over the continue to taboo matter of grief. Describing her family members as a “melting pot of major characters” she has always been interested in “big visible storytelling”. She thinks “everyone just wishes to connect” and obtaining obtained mind-boggling suggestions from the general public, she wants the installation to deliver a area for men and women to share their stories, and smash the stigmas connected with decline and grief.

The Loss Venture is coordinating diverse and totally free psychological wellness workshops that diligently considers and explores the complexities of psychological wellness, grief and reduction as very well as assisting men and women to check out their ordeals by means of shared connection and creativity. This labour of like is about bringing mental health troubles, especially grief and decline to the public consciousness in a vibrant resourceful way, and as such Fandangoe SKIP is on the lookout for collaborators from public spaces, galleries or universities in NYC and California this Autumn to assistance develop an integrated psychological wellbeing programme to access audiences throughout the US, doing work with mental wellness wellness platform Strong 365.

“As properly as remaining massive admirers of Annie’s expansive and vibrant approach to usually
difficult topics, our most up-to-date undertaking, Fandango SKIP, which explores grief by way of the medium of ice product is extremely near to our hearts. Catherine and I have both equally
knowledgeable the reduction of our parents in recent yrs, and when Annie approached us with the notion, we were being a big fats multicoloured Certainly.” SKIP Gallery

“Greenwich Peninsula has constantly been a spot for neighborhood and creativeness to appear
collectively, celebrating the ability that art and structure have in unifying us all. Featuring a safe area for people today to link via shared ordeals, the Fandangoe SKIP compliments what the Peninsula is all about. A flourishing local community with lifestyle at its heart”. Greenwich Peninsula

“We’re delighted to welcome Fandangoe Kid again and welcome ‘Fandangoe Skip’ to
provide its colourful and uplifting set up to Canary Wharf for all to take pleasure in. We love the thought that subjects these as mental wellness can be introduced into the spoltlight through some thing exciting and optimistic.” Lucie Moore, Associate Director for Arts + Activities at Canary Wharf Team

“Beyond the set up this collaboration seeks to build impactful legacies for
communities and people to definitely make a modify to our psychological health and fitness, not just for a couple days, but to function towards altering the landscape…. It is a collaboration of desires and it genuinely underpins all we stand for…to carry pleasure even when enduring grief and loss” The Reduction Task

©2022 Fandangoe Child, SKIP Gallery, CAUKIN Studio

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