The Mixed Media Artist Beatrice Njoroge

Beatrice Njoroge (1978) -- Mixed Media

Artist Profile

Beatrice Njoroge is Mixed Media Artist

My paintings challenges one to look beyond the surface through the exposure of their hidden stories. Using a process of simultaneous multiplicities the images play with the processes of revealing and concealing.

Through the use of layering and texture in the paintings each fresh thought and new ideas grows off the previous both literally and metaphorically. The use of typography has been key texts lifted from magazines novels and newspapers with their self reflective prose to explore ideas such as vanity humanity adaptation memories and transitions.

The contrast between abstraction, text, montage and layering and the image of the face on several of my paintings is to explore the notion of the self through the perception of the other.

The face as the final layer gives something recognizable to the viewer, a point of clear identification rooting the play of words and ideas in the physical human form and our most immediate expression of the self, the face.

Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibition

2011: Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, USA

2010: Politics of Art and the Art of Politics(Video Installation), Curated by Ato Malinda, KuonaTrust, Kenya

2010: Art and Graft, Kuona Trust, Kenya

2010: Le Rustique Solo Exhibition

2009: Artist without Borders Triangle exhibition

2009: Africa Now (emerging talents from a continent on the move) at The World Bank Washington DC. 9 December 2008 - 30 April 2009

2009: First solo exhibition RaMoMA 11th March-9th April

2008: “How I like it” Village market an artist initiative for the displaced -Art for peace at the Godown Arts Center

2006: Africa Within: Many Eyes One Soul (The Royal Commonwealth Society) London UK (3 October – 3 November 2006)

2006: Kuona Trust10th international Artists Residency

2005: An exhibition by Godown resident artists (Godown Arts center)

2004: “Utopia” RaMOMA

2004: Land mines Le’ rustique Restaurant)

2003: East African women’s Workshop Exhibition Gallery of Contemporary East African Art, National Museums of Kenya

Workshops

Selected:

2007: Shatana Triangle International Artist Workshop (Jordan)
Rafiki Triangle International Artist Workshop (Tanzania)

2005: Triangle Insaka international workshop (Zambia)

2004: Printing workshop (Facilitated by London based artist Mandy Bonel) followed by an exhibition Bankside gallery London.

Residency

2006: Kuona Trust (10th international artist residence), Nairobi, Kenya

Commissions

Collections:

2009: The World Bank Washington DC

2009: Safaricom ltd

2006: Ford Foundation

Publications

March 23 – 29: The EastAfrican magazine

Aug 2006: Feature on African journal

Education

1983-1992 Musa Gitau Primary School

1993-1996 Parklands Arya Girls High School

1998-2000 Buru Buru Institute of Fine Arts - (Attained a diploma)

Award

2006: The Most Promising Female Artist Award

2006: (By Alliance Franciase) the French cultural center

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Exhibitions

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Featured Artist Portfolio

Title: Untitled
Name: Hendrick Lilanga (hendricklilanga)
Country: Tanzania
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: Available On Request
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