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February 2024
February 2024 News
February ‘24
Yes you are correct, the monthly newsletter is a little late this month. I wanted to hold off so we could include some images of the new exhibition we are holding here. Celebrating the Chinese New Year, in collaboration with the UK Henan Chinese Association, we are excited to present, ‘Splendours of Henan’: A Cultural Tapestry. Opens Saturday 10th Feb, alongside many other Lunar Celebrations taking place on the Peninsula. Here are the various links to give you some more information. The Exhibition | The Celebration Day | Greenwich Peninsula Events
The Exhibition will run from 10th - 24th Feb The work is incredible. It really is a must see event.
Workshops and Events
February
We are a little quiet on the workshop front this month, due to the short exhibition we are holding. We will be back to weekly Saturday workshops in March.
10th - 24th: ‘Splendours of Henan’: A Cultural Tapestry - Exhibition. Details and Tickets
Sunday 18th - ‘Splendours of Henan’: A Cultural Tapestry - Celebration day. Details and Tickets
Wednesday 28th: Our regular Spoken word, open mic event. Which grows each month we do it. Details and Tickets.
March
Saturday 2nd: Colour Me Blind. Workshop with Nelly K. Tickets will become available next week - they’ll be posted on Instagram, feel free to email if you want me to send a direct link to you.
Thursday 7th: The opening night for our brand new exhibition. ‘Wake Up and Smell the Roses’. Details and Tickets
Saturday 9th: Workshop: Details TBC
Wednesday 13th: Womb Wisdom - Force of the Feminine. Facilitated by Chantelle.
A space for women to come together and connect back to the infinite intuitive wisdom of the womb space through movement, expression, and creativity. Bringing awareness to this space of creation that gives birth to humanity and is a vast portal of knowledge, inspiration, and healing energy. Together, we will feel into what wants to be released and birthed into this world.
email: [email protected] for more information and tickets. This is a free event, donations are welcome.
The rest of March’s programme will be in the next Newsletter.
If you are interested in keeping up to date with what workshops and events we have coming up, it is worth following us on our eventbrite page. We will be creating an extensive program this year. All events will be listed here: Events and Workshops
Other News
There are three Firepit artists; Ernesto Romano, Marcus Jake & Shumaiya Khan, that have donated work to the Terrance Higgins Trust Charity auction taking place on April 15th.
Firepit Artist Shumaiya Khan has a number of events coming up.
Six Metre mural at The Other Art Fair + 2 charcoal workshops
Voice of Women fair at Royal Exchange on the 9 & 10th March
Thursday 15th Feb 6-8pm is the PV for The Hoxton, Southwark Gallery
Exhibitions that are still running, are;
67 Pall Mall solo until 10th March
'Fountain of Youth' at The Lion and The Fox until 9th March.
Firepit Artist Pragya Kumar has her solo show coming up, titled, ‘What’s on Your Mind’.
Tickets for the opening on the 29th Feb
Firepit Artist Ernesto Romano has some very awesome new work.
Masquerade
Masquerade is a project that explores my Venetian roots and the carnival masks.
Venetian masks have always been a symbol of playful fun but at the same time mysterious covering.
In this instance though, the identity of the X-rayed subject is already unknown to the viewer, and the masks are just an added layer to the bone tissues while the black and white deprives the colourful and playful attributes of the masks to explore the core and essence of the shapes and patterns. The result is a fusion between the human tissue and the masks fabric resulting into a mysterious subject where we struggle to define the boundaries of each of the two components.
This small series of artworks is one of my very few black and white works.
Printed on Ilford B/W paper mounted on alu-dibond and under matt acrylic glass with a slimline golden frame. Limited edition of 10. Sizes from 50x60 to 80x60cm
Dog Commission Piece.
This is Carla, a lovely dog who lives with her daddies in New York City.
This is something completely new for me. I was asked to do an anatomical portrait of Carla after the client saw my anatomical hearts with neon frame which have been also exhibited here at Firepit.
The result is this intricate drawing which has been based on a picture of Carla and reveals all the anatomical structure of the dog, completely carried out by me digitally by drawing on computer all the elements that compose the dog anatomy.
I really enjoyed working on this project and I thought this could be a new adventure in my art practice, opening up to doing portrait of dogs commissioned by their mums and dads
So if this is something that could be of interest why not contact me for a chat and I can show you samples of this completed commission
Links
Firepit is a non-profit artist collective. We run everything on a volunteer basis. We are always on the lookout for some extra volunteers to help us out with covering the opening hours in the gallery. If this is of interest, please come and have a chat.
Take care of yourself and others, hope to see you in the gallery soon.
The Firepit Team
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