Ti Umuna Exhibition - Kat Cruz

Ti Umuna

Kat Cruz debuts Duende and Best Part at Firepit Gallery - vibrant acrylic X oil pastel collections where Flamenco’s spirit meets raw stories of love, longing, and healing.

September 28th - October 4th 2025 in ‘The Red Room’

Join us for a PRIVATE VIEW on the opening night of SUNDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER from 6PM - 10PM, enjoy some live music!

Full line up will be announced soon.

Tickets are pay-what-you-can, BOOK HERE

Kat Cruz, a first-generation British Filipino from South London, is a self-taught artist.

Over twenty years ago she started selling simple paintings based on ethnic stone/wood hand

carved sculptures of lovers, mother & child or families entwined - done on salvaged pieces of stage flooring and scraps of cloud from the Lyceum Theatre’s set of Lion King in London.

Since then, she has experimented with different techniques, evolved in her art skills and is

producing her own unique style of work.

Her work explores themes of sensuality, passion, energy and movement as well as

introducing culture from a British Filipino female’s perspective.

Kat will be holding her debut exhibition at the Firepit Gallery, showcasing pieces from her

collections ‘Best Part’ and ‘Duende’. This marks the first time she will be presenting her

work to the public.

‘Ti Umuna’ is Ilocano, her parent’s dialect from the northern region of the Philippines and

means ‘the first’. Kat wants to honour her roots, celebrate her first exhibition and new

journeys.

Why do you paint?

“Painting grounds me but also allows me to escape.

It is a way of expressing my emotions but also helps to sedate and heal.

I paint to portray an energy, and I paint to supply my own.”

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Ti Umuna Private View with live music:

September 28th

6pm - 10pm

Free Entry - Please reserve your ticket. Option to donate, to help with the running costs of Firepit CIC, always gratefully received.

Join self-taught, first-generation British Filipino artist Kat Cruz for her debut exhibition private view at Firepit Gallery, where her collections Duende and Best Part dance with the spirit of Flamenco and speak of love, longing, and renewal - a celebration of culture, emotion, and the impact of art on self-expression and healing.

Celebrate with us and enjoy some live music amongst the artworks! Musical line-up to be updated here shortly…

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