An art exhibition by Spiritual Healer, Psychic Artist and Lightworker Amura-An

Amura-An will also offer to draw Spirit Guide Portraits on Saturday the 13th of March and during the duration of the show.

Private View: Saturday 13th of March 2010 - 12.00 pm to 5.00 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 12th – Thursday 18th of March 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am to 6.30 pm -  Sat: 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thursday 18th of March: 11.00 am to 5.00 pm

Amura-An was born in Istanbul, Turkey and studied Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan University where she specialized in ceramics and textiles. Amura-An has since been working as a spiritual healer. She shares these experiences with others through colour therapy and the transmission of light through her art.

As an artist Amura uses colour therapy as a channel for healing energies by focusing on opening the viewer’s perception beyond their five senses and getting in touch with their inner feelings. As such, her paintings transcend the category of ‘abstract art’. Beyond these canvasses the paintings are alive, and they work as “a tool for the manifestation of healing and unconditional love”. Her collection utilises the mixture of vibrant colours to create a spiritual cosmos.

Amura An has previously exhibited her works at many exhibitions and festivals, having travelled to Brighton, Stonehenge and Glastonbury to share her work and healing therapy with others.

Amura-An also creates Spirit Guide Portraits with readings at numerous festivals (psychic festivals, mind-body festivals) and has been regularly attending such festivals as the Freedom Festivals in Crawley, the Magical Faery Festival in Canterbury and in Croydon to share her spiritual healing and portraiture. Amura-An will also offer to draw Spirit Guide Portraits on Saturday the 13th of March and during the duration of the show.

An exhibition of young people’s artwork organised by Action Space

Private View: Friday 19th of March 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 19th – Thursday 25th of March 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am to 6.30 pm -  Sat: 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thursday 25th of March: 11.00 am to 5.00 pm

This ARK is full of art!

ARK is an exciting group show featuring work by six young artists from Action Space’s South London Young People’s Group.

This spectacular exhibition explores the themes of animals and journeys. There will be a dynamic array of artwork, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and animation.

The young people will take you on a journey around their art world and look at how art can build a community of people with different needs who have a similar aim.

For further information contact Action Space:

Tel: 020 7209 4289 Email: sheryll@actionspace.org www.actionspace.org

Private View: Friday 26th of March 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 26th of March – Saturday 27th March 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat: 12.30 pm - 6.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Saturday 27th of March: 12.30am to 6.00pm

This group exhibition brings together a collection of new paintings by four Wimbledon College of Art 2nd Year painting students, with the aim of creating an exhibition diverse in works holding a variety of minds.

Maya Brodzinska tries to integrate and reflect in her art practice her interest in certain aspects of today’s materialised and digitalised society. Her latest works explore the idea of beauty within this commercialised world, and how the ever-existing pursuit of beauty is dominated and shaped by the market, advertising, and by icons created by the mass media.

Amy Cochrane paints found images, ideally using painting like a camera to capture, but rather to capture the fantasies, the absurdities, and the curiosities, creating an artificial visual and imaginary time. Her paintings are wrapped in metaphors, both within their imagery, and the liquid metaphors within paint itself.

Jonathan Kelly’s recent work is based upon a series of drawings made in the Swiss Alps. Creating studio paintings removed from depictions of reality. Interested in works achieving complete autonomy, void of romance and stripped of mystification. These analytical works aim to pose questions regarding what it is that makes a landscape, and what makes a painting.

James Yule is intrigued by music, art and contemporary culture. He composes songs that critique contemporary culture and popular music while also informing his paintings. The structures of the paintings, like the structures of the song lyrics, are created from juxtapositions of images found in newspapers, and the colours are derived from the song chords through a process of synaesthetic interpretation.

Featuring works by:

Amy Russell ● Anna Siemaszko ● Ian Tatton ● Joe Townend & Toby Owen ● Juan Blanco ● Leslie Wilson-Rutterford ● Maia Schweizer ● Paul Vincett ● Roxane Grant ● Sibylla McGrigor ● Soheila Keyani ● Soraia Almeida ● Susie Lowe ● Wiracha Daochai ● Zannah Cooper ● Hanae Utamura

Private View: Friday 2nd of April 2010 - 6 pm to 1am (after Party with live music/DJ)

The art work shown portrays subtlety rather than shock value seen in recent mainstream exhibitions, the latter tending to alienate, rather than involve, the viewer.

Each artist participating in this show has their own way to express happiness and this exhibition demonstrates that no matter where one comes from, one can always find a reason to smile. With a feeling of anticipation, we hope that who ever visits ‘Smile’ will walk out with a smile, perpetuating a ‘feel good factor’; well, at least for a brief moment…..

An exhibition of works by Nelly Curtis, Benjamin Glean & Melanie Blackwell

Private View: Friday 9th of April 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 9th – Thursday 22nd of April 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am to 6.30 pm -  Sat: 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thursday 22nd of April: 11.00 am to 5.00 pm

A new Exhibition at Red Gate Gallery - Nearly 2 years after leaving The Byam Shaw School of Art, Nelly Curtis, Benjamin Glean and Melanie Blackwell have decided to celebrate their progress in a group show of their latest work.

With Curtis’ newest paintings inspired by a trip to Africa and Blackwell’s investigations on Artist/model relationship you could describe them as traditionalist. Also we have photography by Glean looking at themes surrounding male identity.

Benjamin Glean: His latest work investigates themes of male identity. These include ideas of how men are represented by the media and themselves. Within his practise Glean has looked at various genres of photography including fashion and documentary. Using a mix of studio and location, staged and snapshot, he hopes to make his audience consider the way that men appear and how we may make judgements on appearance be it true or false. www.benjaminglean.com

Melanie Blackwell: She had striped her current practice back to the bare essentials. With this work, she is planning to re-learn and re-educate herself in not only the beginnings of her painting, but also with the development of the relationship between artist and sitter. This work is the commencement of a continued investigation to develop something personable and beautiful.

Nelly Curtis: Within a month Curtis stayed in ‘Dar Es Salaam, Kigamboni,, Arusha, Moshi, and Zanzibar’. She lived and worked with a group of people from around the world during a time when they were creating an N.G.O called ‘Kigana Chapazi’ translating as ‘A Hard Working Youth’.

“Working on these paintings brought me back to an amazing time and place. The colours, vibrancy and humour (of Tanzania) had an energy that captivated me. The importance of the family and community as well as all the Art forms that are in bloom there were what I found to be at the core of what makes this country so beautiful and rich. This however provides a stark contrast to the struggles and harsh realities that the vast majority of Tanzanian people face. It identifies aspects of their day-to-day life that many of us in the western world will never really be able to truly understand” (Curtis 2010)

Previously Curtis had been inspired by her family, friends and local community (Kentish Town). The transition to paint such a different culture was a challenging yet wholly enriching and fulfilling one.

An exhibition of works by print makers Jonathan Comerford, Tom Adriani, Jai Llewellyn, Tony Lee, Eric Storey, Julian Ronnefeldt, Nazir Tanbouli.

Private View: Friday 2nd of April 2010 - 6 pm to 1am