Fandangoe Whip 2021

Funded on
10 May 2021

FANDANGOE WHIP is a touring project that uses an ice cream van to have an ice-cream together, while creating a safe space that acts as a platform for dialogue on grief, loss and mental health in 2021.

£9,835 Raised of £9,257

67 Backers

106%

Costs

Van Canvas purchase, MOT & Service £4,000
Community/Charity Partnerships: Mental Health Workshops £1,500
Van Artwork: Mural paints & work £1,000
Vehicle Insurance £600
Touring Fuel Costs £600
Install & Storage of van £520
Parking for the mobile workshop cost £360
Target: (inc. fees) £9,256

http://www.fandangoekid.com

The Fandangoe Kid is a London based print artist who makes large-scale narrative driven pieces for the public realm. Her work seeks to smash taboos around complex subject matters such as loss, trauma release, mental health and gender constructs.

The artist has created work for a wide range of purposes, most recently with her ‘Staircase of Dreams’ for London Design Festival 2020, working with young people to develop a collective narrative on daily activism.

During the first lockdown, The Fandangoe Kid redesigned nurse’s scrubs for Marie Curie x NHS London, working with a palliative care nurse via Zoom to develop the uniform, celebrating International Year of the Nurse, 2020. The artist’s work was shot for a feature about grief and mental health for Channel 4, looking at the importance of her practice in 2020.

The Fandangoe Kid has recently completed a large scale mural for YouTube for World Mental Health Day 2020, alongside a large scale digital piece for Sadiq Khan’s charity Thrive, looking at resilience.

In 2019, she installed a 14 metre pillar for University of the Arts London’s 120th year anniversary and a large-scale permanent piece of public art at the Southbank Centre for the charity CALM.

For World Mental Health Day 2019, she installed an 80 metre floor narrative at City Hall for the Mayor of London’s charity Thrive, addressing the connection between movement and mental health. Additionally, she screened her film Into Your Light, directed with Tara Darby, at Tate Modern and on the Manhattan Bridge, looking at dancing as a tool for survival following great personal loss.

Much of the artist’s work is driven by navigating her own story, following the loss of many individuals in her family back in 2011, her practice being largely underpinned by the will to create a platform for open dialogue around the still taboo subject of grief.

She has worked with young people in Hackney and inner- city London for over a decade, her remit being to encourage young people from all backgrounds to know themselves better through their creative practice.

Partners also include

Mental Health London: Thrive LDN Team https://thriveldn.co.uk/

William Morris Design Line, Walthamstow https://www.wmdesignline.com/

Metal Culture, Chalkwell Park in Southend on Sea. http://www.metalculture.com/

Heart of Glass, a St Helens, Merseyside-based collaborative and social arts agency: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/

Project Owner: Annie Nicholson The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.