Christian Asare: Love Flows at HOME, Manchester

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Christian Asare: Love Flows at HOME, Manchester
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Christian Asare: Love Flows at HOME Manchester, Manchester 1 October — 15 November 2020 Entrance is free — Visit now

Presented at HOME, Love Flows is a diptych in oils created during lockdown by multi-disciplinary artist Christian Asare. It celebrates the creative contributions of eight Black British ‘game-changers’ in Manchester: Oskar Marchok, Chloe Cousins, Suriya Aisha, Aria Scere Jacobs, Tolu Ajayi, Darren Pritchard, Harvey Kennedy and Kenneth Morris – the Legendary collective House of Noir.

Platforming QTIBPOC excellence, inspiring creativity, self-love and multicultural expression, House of Noir is a fresh Manchester-based vogue house on the vibrant national scene of vogue houses, using their voices, artforms, organisations and aesthetic to proclaim and promote the Presence and Excellence of People of Colour in the UK.

Christian Asare is a black British Multidisciplinary Artist of Ghanaian heritage based in Manchester. A trained choreographer and contemporary dancer with a specialisation in afro-contemporary dance, he is also an independent fine artist, painting in oils with a focus on uplifting afrocentric imagery.

Christian Asare: Love Flows at HOME Manchester, Manchester 1 October — 15 November 2020 Entrance is free Visit now

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