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Kenya Mon 06-02-2012

Gor Soudan & Paul Onditi's 'Another World is Possible'
By Zihan Kassam

‘Another World is Possible’ at Alliance Francaise is a contemporary exhibition in which two revolutionary Kenyan artists Gor Soudan and Paul Onditi reveal their diagnosis of humanity. What brought such sting...

Uganda Sun 04-12-2011

'What I Have Always Wanted To Tell The World'
By David Kaiza | Africancolours.com

Arguably the highest achieving of Ugandan artists', Odoch Ameny is better known for his sculptural pieces out of pistons, bicycle chains, typewriters, and myriad other former machines welded onto them.

Somalia Wed 12-10-2011

Brothers in Arms: A Paradise Lost
By Zihan Kassam | AfricanColours.com

In a tour of the show ‘Brothers in Arms’, you switch back and forth between having hope for a country that desperately needs it and being deeply disturbed by the merciless realities of war.

Kenya Mon 10-10-2011

Salt of the Earth: A Sneak Preview From Geraldine Robarts’ New Watercolour Series
By Zihan Kassam | AfricanColours.com

In the spirit of warm salty air, Geraldine Robarts paints in radical watercolours again and her new series of paintings allures us with all the quirky details that give the Kenyan coast its eccentric flair.

Kenya Wed 24-08-2011

Sphere of the Surreal: The Art of Peter Elungat
By Zihan Kassam | AfricanColours.com

Thirty gigantic portions of canvas, viscous oil paints and a peculiar artist who very obviously operates at a different frequency. Those are the prerequisites in the composition of a transcendent new world.

Kenya Mon 22-08-2011

A Prolific Painter & Passionate Collector of Contemporary African Art
By Margaretta wa Gacheru | AfricanColours.com

The co-founder of RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Mary Collis may be renowned as a colorist and an abstract expressionist, but in fact, she's a woman who fearlessly experiments with various media and new techniques.

Uganda Mon 15-08-2011

History of Modern Batik Art: The Continuous Evolution of Modern Batik Technique
By a Correspondent

This is a journey in art which visits the past, pauses in the present, and continues into the future to discover how the Modern Batik style has evolved into an art form embraced and respected around the world.

Kenya Sat 25-06-2011

Unique Bespoke Design Ideas in Recycled Glass: New Works from Kitengela Glass.
By a Correspondent

Anselm Croze and the team at Kitengela Glass have been busy, and are back with new works from the plains of Kitengela.

Uganda Mon 20-06-2011

Nuwa Wamala Nnyanzi’s Experience at CMA Fest 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
By Nuwa Wamala Nnyanzi

Ugandan Batik artist Nuwa Wamala Nnyanzi shares his exciting experience at the 2011 Country Music Awards Festival in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery

Shades of Time: An exhibition by Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery National Museum of Kenya

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Title: Making Ways
Name: Tabitha Wa Thuku
Country: Kenya
Medium: Mixed media on heavy canvas
Size: 149 X 140 cms
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