Visit

From its unassuming setting on the second floor of Southend Central Library, Focal Point Gallery has started its transition towards becoming a regional curatorial laboratory intrigued by the potential of the wider Thames Gateway.

With an accent on lens-based media within the expanded field of contemporary art, it will present a mixture of projects with a concern for unmanageable affirmative visual power, instances of literary inspired creativity, and dissenting photo / collage / performances, which aim to scramble history and memory, and question the current status of ‘the centre’, ‘the margin’ and ‘the periphery’.

Through forms of recalcitrant optimism, and with partners on a local and international level, Focal Point Gallery aims for nothing less than a paradigm shift in its audience’s perception of contemporary social and political reality. We urge you to run from London and join us.

Focal Point Gallery
Southend Central Library
Victoria Avenue
Southend-on-Sea
Essex SS2 6EX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1702 534108
Fax: +44 (0)1702 469241

Opening Times:
Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm
Saturday 9am to 5pm
Closed Sundays and bank holidays
Admission free

Directions:
Focal Point Gallery is located on the second floor of Southend Central Library, which is a hundred yards from Southend Victoria Station. (Trains every fifteen minutes from London Liverpool Street. Journey time fifty-five minutes.)