FLAVA

FLAVA - PRIVATE VIEW 6-9 PM Thursday 6th 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.

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!

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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 Free entry, but please book your ticket(s).

To help us assess numbers at different times please select the ticket for the time slot that you are most likely to arrive (for any ticket, once entered, ticket-holder is welcome to stay until closing time of 9PM)

PV Session 1 : 6-7 PM THURS 6 NOV 2025

PV Session 2 : 7-8 PM THURS 6 NOV 2025

PV Session 3 : 8-9 PM THURS 6 NOV 2025

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UPDATES

TUE 7 OCT 2025

FLAVA - Lauch of FREE Tickets to the PRIVATE VIEWING GS Wines are pleased to be serving a selection of our quality Italian wines at the Show's PV Evening (Thurs 6 NOV from 6-9 PM). We believe that 'good art deserves good wine'! Please book a FREE Ticket as places are limited!

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

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

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

4 Zurab Gogidze "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 Yasmine Rassouli "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 Tom Mead "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 Yin Wang "I create expressive work to confront the ache of displacement and the fragile threads that bind us to our roots"

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

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

11 Melanie Coote "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 Ramón Ravé "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 Neha Dewangan "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 Maurice Mutua "I work figuratively making paintings and collagraphs that explore my relationship with the world."