Artist talk - Harry Pinedo

Join artist, educator, and community activist Harry Pinedo as he shares insights from his experience of migration and his multifaceted practice in the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima.

Free to attend

Harry Pinedo/ Inin Metsa is an artist and intercultural teacher. He belongs to the Shibipo people in Peru’s central Amazon and lives in the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima. His work focuses on issues of the interrelation of worlds and environmental sustainability, internal migration and the various battles to establish an indigenous community in Lima.  His first solo exhibition “The Splendor of Yanapuma” (2017) denounced pollution in the Amazon, and during the Covid-19 pandemic, his art practice focused on Shipibo responses to Covid-19. He has exhibited internationally and has recently participated at Pinta Miami art fair in the Special Project “To Paint the Forest Beings”.

This event is part of a wider public programme for . More information about the exhibition and other events can be found here. 

All events are free to attend. You are welcome to make a donation or pay as you feel. All money will go to fund the programme.  

The project is a collaboration between Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA), Newcastle University, University of London’s School of Advanced Study, and the Amazonart Project. It has received support from Community Foundation North East, Embassy of Peru in the United Kingdom, Newcastle University - NUCORE Water, HaSS Global, School of Modern Languages - and University of London’s School of Advanced Study. It includes partnerships with Newcastle University Centre for Water and Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean, University of London, SAS’s Environmental Humanities Research Hub, Tyne Rivers Trust and UK Environment Agency.

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