‘Subversive Sandwich Workshops’ with Bobby Baker
Thursday 10th July 2025 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Explore your artistry and express yourself through sandwich assembling. Join Bobby Baker in this workshop and reflect on the often overlooked value of domestic labour.
EPIC DOMESTIC is Bobby Baker’s artistic mission to fight gender injustice, connect communities, and challenge the unequal division of domestic labour in the home. Inspired by activism, propaganda, and the untold stories of women all over the world, EPIC DOMESTIC is her quest to create a Domestic Revolutionary Party fit for the 21st century.
To complement the grandeur of this notion, Bobby has developed the Subversive Sandwich Workshops – a revolutionary technique to introduce the concept of maverick joy in acts of domestic labour.
About the workshop
The Subversive Sandwich Workshops are more than a culinary activity – they are an artistic and cultural exploration. Participants assemble sandwiches that symbolise aspects of their daily lives while sharing the personal stories behind their creations.
The workshops begins with an introduction and performance by Bobby Baker, followed by a screening of a short introductory film. Participants are asked to consider a moment of joy, or pride in their daily lives and express it in cunning ways, using everyday sandwich ingredients.
Aims of the workshop
Through these workshops, Bobby aims to recruit a wide range of people to join her in reflecting on the often overlooked value of domestic labour through the simple yet powerful art of making sandwiches and getting to know one another.
This event will take place at the Nunnery Café, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ.
This event is part of the Bow Open Public Programme.
More about Bobby Baker
Bobby Baker’ s acclaimed intersectional feminist practice includes performance, drawing, and installation, and persistently exposes the undervalued and stigmatised aspects of women’s daily lives, exemplified by pioneering works such as Drawing on a Mother’s Experience (1988) and Kitchen Show (1991). In 1976, Bobby staged An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, a sculptural installation inside her Acme housing prefab in Conder Street, E3. The work featured five life-size sculptures of family members made from cake, biscuits and meringues, which were gradually eaten by the public over the course of a week. This major work was recreated at Tate Britain in 2023 and at the Whitworth in Manchester in 2025, as part of the touring exhibition Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990. Bobby and her company Daily Life Ltd. originally had a Bow Arts Studio in Stratford. During those 5 years, she created several site-specific projects in the East End including launching was the Roving Diagnostic Unit (20) in our beloved Tower Hamlets Cemetry Park.
Access information
The Nunnery Café has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a seat near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Address: Nunnery Café, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
About the Bow Open
The Bow Open is Bow Arts’ annual exhibition of astonishing artwork created exclusively by our Studio Holders, Affordable Housing residents, and Artist Educators. Every year, a different guest curator is invited to select the work. For our 30th anniversary we have three guest curators; Bobby Baker, Albert Potrony, and Nye Thompson have each had a studio with Bow Arts so bring an embedded insight and commitment to the selection process in this special year. This year, 22 artists explore the ties that bind and divide, responding to the theme of ‘Connections’.
Find out more about the exhibition here.
