It was interesting to channel Angela Davies for the opening of #Harambee63. The introduction was delivered from atop a VW Combi. A car engine developed in the hands of a hero turned terrorist – Hitler. Join me for conversation on Thursday 19th at 2pm at Kuona Trust, off Likoni Close, off Likoni Lane, off Denis ...
#Harambee63 opened on Thursday 5th September 2013 at Kuona Trust, Nairobi – Kenya. The installation runs until the 20th of September 2013. The bar, Kwa Njeri Bar and Butchery is the central location for the gumboots which represent 63 faces of Pan Africanism before 1963. A video installation screened behind the grills ...
This exhibition is about learning. Not just about Africa, but also about what my mind can conjure. Uhuru B a graffiti artist based at Kuona, has been guiding me on my first attempt at graffiti. It looks alot easier than it actually is. For starters, I have to separate the colours of my image. Mentally. ...
Tetanus. I have a morbid fear of corrugated iron sheets; “mabati.” Throw some rust in there and you are asking for a visit to an office with a couch. I think it comes from years of being warned by my grandmother to watch that I don’t get cut by the iron sheets that make up ...
A good exhibition needs good signage. Last week, I visited Gathee, a sign writer who has a “shop” along Ngong Road. He will be the official identity for the unusual location for the #Harambee63 exhibition at Kuona Trust. He had just completed a sign over which he had differed with the client. The client wanted ...
Renee Mboya who keep artists in check at Kuona Trust reminded me that I need to remember there is a door that I can’t move in the gallery. A danger in trying to recreate what is in my mind is that I also imagine it is possible to knock down a gallery wall. I think ...
I love gumboots. I love all my 63 pairs of gumboots. The History of Gumboots Gumboots were first worn in the Battle of Waterloo, a battle by the British against Napolean’s army (French). The British and Germans, in gumboots were led by the Duke of Wellington (British). Hence the name, Wellingtons and ...
#Harambee63 is the online aspect of a project that maps out the history of revolution in Africa before 1963. It will place Kenya’s independence movement within the global context of freedom from oppression against Black and Colored people. The first part of #Harambee63 is an installation @Kuona_Trust that blends art ...
