"Sunday FLAVA!" - SUN 9 NOV EXTRA Programme

"SUNDAY FLAVA!" -SUNDAY 9 NOV Programme 11:00 -5:30 PM Sunday 9th November 2025, Gallery 2 Handbag Factory

'Flava' denotes an individual's unique personality, style, flair - the 'je ne sais quois' that makes one person different from another.

EXTRA In-show EVENTS: Artist's Talks, "Meet the Artist", Pop-up Art Shop

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EXTRA: "Sunday FLAVA" Programme SUN 9 November 11:00am-5:30pm

• Artist's Talk at 14:00, Sunday 9 NOV 2025

MARINA TRANI - Artist's Talk Why a Talking Statue?

In Rome there are 6 much loved talking statues and they are symbols of satirical, political expression. They have performed this role for centuries across many different forms of government and leaderships.

Nowadays, their role seems to be more relevant than ever with nationalism, intolerance and wars on a sharp rise. In my paintings, Pasquino and Lucrezia, I celebrate these symbols and, through them, I voice my own sense of disorientation and confusion. (NB This formal talk is scheduled for 14:00 on SUNDAY 9 NOV 2025 but the artist will be able to speak informally to viewers during the time she is present at the Gallery.)

• Other Artists' Informal talks by various exhibiting artists including - Dan Waring, Sneh Mehra, Melanie Coote, Maurice Mutua
• Meet The Artists Various exhibiting artists will be present
• POP-UP Art Shop

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FLAVA the exhibition showcases an exciting array of art and art practice by a group of 14 contemporary artists - each with a unique expression of how they see the world, and their world - the colours, ideas, concerns, joys, aesthetics, stories - that meld artists imagination with the everyday experience of life in the 21st century!

Exhibition open from Thursday 6 - Monday 10 November 2025

ENTRY to the exhibition during usual opening times is FREE of charge.

Opening hours:

Thurs 6 - Mon 10 November 11am-5:30 pm

Private View Thurs 6 November 6-9 PM

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UPDATES

WED 29 OCT 2025 "Sunday FLAVA!" - SUN 9 NOV Special in-Show Programme -This has been finalised. Please see above for details. Please book FREE ticket(s) to attend (ticketholders will be entitled to a free glass of Italian wine!

OTHER 'FLAVAs' Specials (something different each day!):

• "" incl. talk by Yin Wang "Through the Moon Gate — A Door to What Remains"
• "!" incl. LIVE painting by Tom Mead
• "" incl. informal talk by Dan Waring "Sonance"

Download FLAVA Programme of Extra Attractions - here

FRI 24 OCT 2025 - PRESS RELEASE now available

Please download here

TUE 7 OCT 2025

FLAVA - Lauch of FREE Tickets to the PRIVATE VIEWING Please visit this link:

FLAVA 2025

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FLAVA Exhbition Week from Thurs 6 - Mon 10 NOV 2025 WHAT TO EXPECT

PRIVATE VIEW - 6 to 9 PM on Thursday 6th November 2025

GS Wines will offer a FREE glass of quality Italian wine to ticketholders for the Private View event. Entry to the PV is FREE but booking is required.

Other Possible In-Show mini-Events at the Gallery We are planning some subsidiary attractions within the Gallery space for the duration of the show such as:

• artists' shop offering smaller art pieces and artists' original designed merchandise
• curator's guided tour of the artworks
• artist's talk

N.B. These are in development and will be announced when we are able to offer them. Please check Updates for info.

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ARTISTS

1 "My most recent work deals with the themes of identity and the emotional impact of becoming separated."

2 "Attracted by a fascination for the unusual, I find a thrill in reconfiguring the natural world’s curiosities through my human lens."

3 "My work reflects my surroundings, emebdded with the fragments of haphazard growth and deterioration."

4 "Drawing, along with my other passion of story-writing, is way more than a use of free time, it is my very freedom itself"

5 "In my creative journey, I delve into the blurred boundaries between inner and outer reality, while using light and darkness to evoke a sense of mystery and introspection."

6 "I specifically focus on people and the mindset from my own generation, and what it means to be a young person in Britain today."

7 "I create expressive work to confront the ache of displacement and the fragile threads that bind us to our roots"

8 "I typically use bold colours, strong contrasts and shapes and tend to lean more towards using my imagination to create landscapes with infinite horizons."

9 "My work is deeply influenced by saudade; a quiet ache for what’s lost, distant, or never fully grasped."

10 "I am an abstract painter dressed up as a figurative one."

11 "My work is concerned with abstractions of structures,from geometric grid-like frameworks as found in the built environment to more amorphous organic forms from the natural world."

12 "I am deeply intrigued by the interplay between living and non-living elemnents which shape our world, captivated by the fragile yet profounf balance that sustains life on this planet."

13 "My work is rooted in painterly abstraction, using expressive mark-making and loose, atmospheric techniques to capture feelings and fleeting moments, rather than detailed or realistic images."

14 "I work figuratively making paintings and collagraphs that explore my relationship with the world."

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