Annie Frost Nicholson, A blue curaçao cocktail / a wink from another realm, 2025.
Angry Women, Wild Bodies
This workshop invites participants to share honest and real experiences of what it is to be woman in 2025. Led by visual artist Annie Frost Nicholson, you are asked to bring an object to the workshop that tells a story about your experience in this world. This could be a story that is, as yet, untold, one that may break a taboo or invoke shame or humour or anger or paradox or sensuality.
Participants are then invited to explore these objects and stories in both narrative and visual form, through painting and needlework. Participants are encouraged to explore shame and anger with both frankness and humour as they desire, experimenting with colour, form and narrative expression. You are encouraged to think about how your choice of form expresses your experiences as women, to reflect upon the many complex embodied experiences of existing as woman in an ever policed world, such as ageing, sexuality, desire and power.
Please note that capacity is limited for this event. If you have booked a ticket but can no longer attend please inform the gallery so that we can release your ticket to someone on the waiting list.
This event is open to all women.
CCA will be open from 6pm if you wish to view Milly Thompson’s exhibition.
The workshop will commence at 6:30pm.
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BIOGRAPHY
Annie Frost Nicholson is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work seeks to challenge taboos around the complexities of the human condition. Through a curious, colourful and considered lens, Frost Nicholson’s practice looks at what it means to be alive. Frost Nicholson has carefully developed her practice over the past twelve years, most recently working in the public realm to create aesthetically powerful touring grief and mental health installations. The Fandangoe Discoteca, a touring disco for mental health and collective grief (London, Milton Keynes and Berlin 2023), complete with a series of Grief Raves, was made in collaboration with The Loss Project, K67 Berlin and Street Soundsystem. The Fandangoe Whip, an ice cream van for post-pandemic grief and mental health (Latitude, Design Museum, Tate 2021), and The Fandangoe Skip, a kiosk for mental health (London and New York 2022), received footfalls of over 200,000 and international acclaim, culminating in a BBC World Service documentary about her practice. Her work has recently been shown at Young V&A and permanent pieces are The Hope Exchange in London Bridge (LDF 2022) and Creativity Will Save Our Souls at London College of Communication (UAL, 120th Anniversary). The Juicy Booth, a micro booth where you can come and release your shame and shed your guilt opened in Coal Drops Yard in September 2024 for London Design Festival, featured in Wallpaper*, The Times and The Financial Times’ pick of LDF. It then went on to Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz where it has just finished its run.
Annie’s first solo show at Dorothy opened in February 2024 and her painting work has recently been shortlisted by Delphian Gallery for a group show at Unit 1 Gallery in October 2024. Annie’s work A Thin Piece of Silk opens at RMIT, Melbourne this summer and the Discoteca comes to London’s Southbank Centre in early July. She lectures part time in experiential design at Chelsea UAL.
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