“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. ...
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 ...
“[Colonialism] dehumanizes even the most civilized man; that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it; that the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit ...
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 ...
