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 mostly print artist Fandangoe Kid announces her most up-to-date general public artwork set up The ‘Fandangoe SKIP’ in collaboration with SKIP Gallery, The Loss Task and Caukin Studio. The candy-colored, ice-product-kiosk-in-a-skip will initial look in Greenwich Peninsula this July, situated in front of Now Gallery, and then Canary Wharf as part of Festival 14 later on that thirty day period to host free of charge psychological well being workshops and provide up free scoops of Fandangoe flavoured ice cream manufactured by ‘A Portuguese Enjoy Affair’. It will then make its way on to the Significant Apple, pursuing a fee by BBC Environment Provider to doc Fandangoe Kid’s operate.

Having all the difficult function from the prior year’s Fandangoe Whip, which noticed commissions by Tate, Canary Wharf Group, South London Gallery, and Style Museum to provide ice cream and workshops on creativeness as catharsis. Fandangoe SKIP moves into a even bigger and much more far-achieving collaboration with a totally integrated arts and psychological health programme. All workshops will be obtainable equally in human being and online, booked through a QR code affixed to the Fandangoe SKIP.

SKIP Gallery has a status for their punk-like spirit and has popped up in sudden spots through collaborations with important present-day artists such as the likes of Gavin Turk, Richard Woods and David Shrigley. In this new collaboration with Fandangoe Child, they will unleash yet another eruption of artwork to delight and intrigue the public. Fandangoe Child is a print artist who makes massive-scale narrative pushed pieces for the public realm. Her do the job seeks to smash taboos close to mental health and fitness, grief, reduction, trauma, and gender constructs. Moreover making colour infused general public artwork, the multidisciplinary artist also uses movie, trend, and workshops to explore universal
human ordeals and highlight the urgency of activism for a superior and much more sustainable future.

This stand-out kiosk will be built of sustainable materials in collaboration with CAUKIN Studio a social business that makes affect by architecture. Combining Fandangoe’s signature visual model – graphic textual content and sample executed in bold and pastel shades, to celebrate the total rainbow spectrum of the human experience. Believe swirling cones and bubble gum pinks, graphic text these as ‘Grief Wallops!’ in sunshine hues and colors. Performing and actively playing with the type and dimensions of the skip, CAUKIN inverts the style for the floating cover, using a visually heavyweight element and remaking it with lightweight timber, enabling the addition of creative openings, fold-down hatches and doors.

For the general public workshops, they have developed seating for outdoors, centered around the centerstage – when, in a thoughtful and ground breaking design touch, for 1-2-1 sessions the complete framework can be folded down to create the wished-for level of privacy. The entire area manages to be both equally compassionate and enjoyable-loving contained under a shiny parasol shade.

“We’re tremendous enthusiastic to be partnering with Fandangoe Kid and Skip Gallery on the
Fandangoe Skip – an ice cream ‘’truck’’ for psychological well being. The art set up will bring a programme of mental health workshops and functions along with delicious scoops of ice product! Housed in a skip or a dumpster, we really like the strategy of somewhere used to unload one thing far more intangible these as our feelings and emotions.” CAUKIN Studio

Fandangoe’s perform is pushed by her have story next the decline of family customers in 2011. Her apply is inspired by the need to build a system for open dialogue all over the even now taboo subject of grief. Describing her household as a “melting pot of huge characters” she has constantly been interested in “big visual storytelling”. She thinks “everyone just desires to connect” and getting been given overpowering feed-back from the public, she needs the installation to present a place for people today to share their stories, and smash the stigmas affiliated with reduction and grief.

The Loss Task is coordinating different and free psychological well being workshops that cautiously considers and explores the complexities of psychological well being, grief and reduction as nicely as encouraging people today to investigate their ordeals as a result of shared link and creativity. This labour of enjoy is about bringing psychological overall health challenges, precisely grief and reduction to the community consciousness in a vibrant innovative way, and as these Fandangoe SKIP is searching for collaborators from general public areas, galleries or universities in NYC and California this Autumn to support create an built-in mental wellness programme to access audiences across the US, doing work with mental well being wellness platform Potent 365.

“As very well as currently being major admirers of Annie’s expansive and vibrant approach to typically
tough subjects, our most recent enterprise, Fandango SKIP, which explores grief as a result of the medium of ice product is very near to our hearts. Catherine and I have each
expert the decline of our dad and mom in recent yrs, and when Annie approached us with the notion, we ended up a major fats multicoloured Indeed.” SKIP Gallery

“Greenwich Peninsula has always been a spot for group and creative imagination to appear
with each other, celebrating the electrical power that artwork and design and style have in unifying us all. Providing a harmless area for persons to link through shared experiences, the Fandangoe SKIP compliments what the Peninsula is all about. A thriving community with lifestyle at its heart”. Greenwich Peninsula

“We’re delighted to welcome Fandangoe Child back and welcome ‘Fandangoe Skip’ to
bring its colourful and uplifting installation to Canary Wharf for all to take pleasure in. We really like the concept that topics these as psychological health and fitness can be brought into the spoltlight via something exciting and optimistic.” Lucie Moore, Associate Director for Arts + Gatherings at Canary Wharf Group

“Beyond the installation this collaboration seeks to create impactful legacies for
communities and people today to definitely make a adjust to our mental health and fitness, not just for a couple of days, but to do the job in direction of transforming the landscape…. It’s a collaboration of dreams and it actually underpins all we stand for…to bring joy even when enduring grief and loss” The Loss Job

©2022 Fandangoe Kid, SKIP Gallery, CAUKIN Studio