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KINSHIP - a contemporary maritime Guernica

Kinship is a charcoal drawing direct on to a real canvas sail 10m x 3m. It was created for Southampton City Gallery as part of the Creative Connections exhibition 2023. It is organised by National Portrait Gallery London and hosted with Southampton City Gallery, co-curated with Cantell School GCSE Art students.

Visit my shop for the limited edition book on this drawing and limited edition signed prints of the cartoon sketch for this artwork. 

Kinship was on exhibition in Southampton City Gallery until 30th Sept 2023

 

Creative Connections at National Portrait Gallery London Learning Studio gives the background to the creation of this artwork and the education based project behind it.

It will be exhibited at Musa International Pavilion in Venice June - 2024

Kinship won the Taylor Foundation Prix in Paris Art Capital - Feb 2024

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The Kinship Drawing was exhibited in Paris in Feb 2024 - invited as key part of the Salon Dessin Peinture A L'eau. hosted at ART CAPITAL  A stones through from the location the original Guernica was painted for the Paris International Fair in 1937. It won the Taylor Foundation Prix.

May 28th - June 10th it was exhibited in Venice at Musa International Pavilion during the Biennale 2024 ' Foreigners Everywhere'. This solo exhibition also had postscript works on this theme and a new work called Neighbours.

Check out the dedicated iG project page for more background info and detail images @https://www.instagram.com/the_kinship_drawing/

Southampton City Art Gallery, Pete Codli

Find out lots more about this work behind the scenes and work in progress on the dedicated Instagram page HERE

There is a book about this drawing with an interesting essay ' A conversation with Picasso' . Available as a hardback or free as a PDF here 

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