In celebration of the United Arab Emirates 50th anniversary, Grammy-nominated composer Ella Spira MBE is for the first time auctioning a collection of 50 UAE landscape paintings. The paintings are a culmination of Ella’s travels across the UAE sharing personal discoveries, unearthing places which she feels truly represent the region and show people the rich, captivating and nuanced history of the Emirates.
Sisters Grimm, the Dubai production company Spira founded with ballerina Pietra De Mello-Pittman in 2009, will drop their first NFT artwork, celebrating the unique diversity and beauty of the seven Emirates.
Most of the NFT and art auction proceeds will go into the Pietra and Ella Theatre Production Shows UAE company, that is developing the Sisters Grimm Performing Arts Programme in line with their resident and world touring Arab World show and other arts initiatives for young people in the region.
Sisters Grimm was founded by Ella and former Royal Ballet Ballerina of 13 years Pietra De Mello-Pittman MBE in 2009 with the mission to use dance musicals to tell stories which impact individuals into cultural and social change through transforming the way people treat each other and their environment with a focus on mental and physical wellbeing and ecological awareness.
More than 1,000 artistic submissions were received from over 100 schools across the UAE, and these have been turned into 3D imagery used in the video for new single Windows of the Mind, which features the vocals of Madyan Hamza, who sings in Arabic, and DB Gad in English.