Note 1 Tuesday 21st April 2015: The envelope says, “It’s right here…inside” and the note says, “Eventually you stop thinking and you start convincing.” #IMOTomorrow
“I’m moving out. Tomorrow.” is set in a living room, where we see through a woman’s eyes, the very moment that the woman is deciding whether to walk out of her marriage or not. The room holds all the emotions and memories that the woman is processing on this night before she “moves out.” It ...
It is with great excitement that this bit of news comes through. #Harambee63 will be part of the pan-African Barclays Africa L’Atelier Art Competition 2015. Kenya is represented by six artists and I am humbled to be among them. Personally, I am elated that this pan-African installation will be part of a conversation around ...
This show which opens on Thursday 26th March 2015, is my most difficult yet. It has taken alittle over 4 years to muster the courage to conjure this moment in the past. The subject matter is something very personal and very unlike my past installations which often tackle social before personal issues. This installation will ...
“Your Name Betrays You” opened on Thursday 19th of Feb 2015. Thank you to the 200 people who turned up on the opening night and to the many who have been coming through. The exhibition closes on Sunday 8th of March 2015. [youtube=http://youtu.be/b8R4NW3W2NM]
#YourNameBetraysYou Conceptual Art Exhibition Often times when we look at our ethnic divisions we say a political tool of domination called “Divide and Rule” caused it. However very few of us actually know how this tool was implemented and mastered in Kenya during and after the colonial period. The exhibition will explore ...
A triptych tale of the shapes taken by an individual to get themselves out of a situation. Incorporates verses from a poem written by the artist, titled “Hissy Fit” On this painting, the verses used are: “She is the snake she is in the same skin she tries to shed. She is hollow – empty ...
I think I took the challenge up because of the amount of pressure we would work under. First of all no collaborations. I have wanted to collaborate with Tonnee Mugo or Kevin Odour on something for a while. I thought this would be it. It wasn’t. But… It need to be mobile/ transportable. It needed ...
“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 ...
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 ...
