FLAVA

Exhibition Runs:

From 6th - 10th November, 2025 | 11am - 5:30pm
Private View: Thursday 6th November, 6pm - 9pm

For PV (free) tickets please book via: https://FLAVA2025.eventbrite.co.uk

Artists Talks / Painting demos etc.: Various dates (please see Eventbrite links, or search for "FLAVA")
Media: Installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, print, fabric, mixed-media 

Location: ASC Gallery 2 at The Handbag Factory

About

FLAVA is a Group Exhibition by 14 Contemporary Artists whose works explore personal vision, emotion, and contemporary life through diverse media. From surrealism to minimalism, FLAVA  blends styles and stories, offering an immersive glimpse into the creativity that reflects today’s world and human consciousness.

The title of the exhibition derives from 'flava' - a term that denotes the personality and flair, the je ne sais quoi - that makes each artist unique in their artistic expression.

FLAVA the exhibition, showcases an exciting array of  art and art practice by a group of 14 contemporary artists, established as well as emerging talent  - 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. In painting, sculpture and drawing, we enter the artists' collective world - that offer the viewer an experience of a range of genres / styles  (abstraction, figurative, minimalist, landscape, portraiture) - and themes - such as, the surreal, the natural world, magical realism, existentialism, saudade (nostalgia), decay, dystopia, authenticity, familiarity, multi faceted identities, modern lifestyles - a contemporary artistic escapade that is fantastical, yet at the same time rooted in the reality of today!

FLAVA Artists: 
Carl Engmann, Dan Waring, Jude Bridge, Marina Trani, Maurice Mutua, Melanie Coote, Nahija Nadeem, Neha Dewangan, Ramón Ravè, Sneh Mehra, Tom Mead, Yasmine Rassouli, Yin Wang, Zurab Gogidze