Toma McCullim
This is my story
1 October to 21 December 2024

Look out for pop up dates. Thursday morning drop in for a cup of smoky tea around the campfire. Tuesday evening Salt & Pepper people.

This is a story about a group of women who believed they could save the world.

‘Toma brings us to time travel to Greenham Common, Newbury, England in 1982. Thatcher’s government are in control and Michael Heseltine has just said that women protesters who enter the base could be shot.
Enter MoonWoman !’
Toma will be opening the closet on boxes stored in the attic to tell a personal tale. She welcomes her peers to come rifle through those drawers, pull out the dusty past, try on those old DM’s.
Contribute to her mixtape. Sing a song from the songbook. Put a hole in your blanket.
Join her for a tarot reading. Share a meal in Holloway Prison.

Toma plays with story telling narratives to ask questions about archiving, cultural reproduction and the personal in the political. She will be looking at zines, old photographs, and listening to the stories of her peer queer elders. She will be speaking live to San Francisco!
She also will experiment with A.I mixing it into a caldron of Goddess worship. This is a very queer ride. There will be astrology, there will be dragons, spiders and snakes. There will be a cosmic consciousness where God will give birth.
The past and the present converge in the studio echo chamber.It is a liminal space twixt and between.
‘I will be asking wither past activism is relevant to contemporary struggle. Is matriarchy utopia ?
I’ll be looking down a long lens to rediscover myself at 18, stepping in and out of the frame to ponder on the web of connection in a found archive fragment. I will be exploring the tradition of history painting as the elevated form and experimenting with its contemporary manifestations.
There will be lunacy, hysteria, and bald boldness.’

Toma McCullim is an artivist, a activist artist. Her work centres on culture making as cultural reproduction. She has brought her practice in participatory art together with her feminist intersectional politic to create award winning films based on Arts for Health practice.
She is presently co-curating an exhibition ‘Grá’ with the Salt & Pepper Collective, chosen from the National Collection in the Crawford Art Gallery. It will show in Uillinn in 2025.

Toma has been awarded an Arts Council Bursary for this work.