“Lately,” said my paintbrush as it swept my soul across the body of paint and spread me onto the canvas. Things have changed in regards to how my paintbrush wants to paint. Influences too have moved. From Jackson Pollock and (sometimes) Keith Haring. New voices are Gustav Klimt and Jean Paul Gautier. The Kiss and ...
#Harambee63 will be showing at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits Uni.) from the 9th to the 12 of April 2014. The main focus for he installation will be about how South Africa was key to the movement for freedom for Black and Coloured people across the continent and globally. Interestingly, the struggle for the very ...
Since the days of the miniskirt, women’s bodies have played a wonderful game of chess with the body as political. This piece represents how one woman’s projection in the mind of a man is not another woman’s projection in the same mind. The currency of the female form can be confusing. This painting is ...
“Net” shows the interconnectedness of man and nature. The spiderweb is made using a key component – fishing line – in the livelihoods of many who live along the Nile; fishermen. The web has been constructed exactly how a spider would do it with the frame and “Y” pattern. In the way that a spiderweb ...
Fela Kuti talks about a woman who thinks she is liberated but is actually not. A critique on feminism. An African woman dances in this painting, clapped for by others – oblivious to her “mental incarceration.” A painting inspired by the actions of an artist – observations made. #subtweet Acrylic on ...
A pause made in the artist’s life two years ago, to listen to what is truly in her heart. The painting is an aerial view of Kuona Trust and the artist in process, surrounded by jacaranda trees. Acrylic on jinja cloth and newspaper print.
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. ...
