The Art Kultured is a cultural amplifier aiming to increase patronage to the arts and recreate a culture of art appreciation within Africa.
100 Days of African Women Artists in East Africa
Sandy Wauye is a Kenyan based painter and illustrator. She is an emerging artist who has been honing her painting skills working in oil, gouache and pastels.
Amna is inspired by the resilience of women in her community as she describes " I feel like I owe them so much. I used to live my own experience only. But now, as I celebrate women in my community every day in my studio, I feel like I live with them. And as I live with them I learn from them
"Art teaches me a lot about what happens in society. the way people live, the politics of their societies, their social lives. Through art across the world you can understand what is happening in different parts of the world."
Katanu Kay Sanna is a Kenyan visual artist who uses a utilizes a mixture of abstract and hyper realistic paintings merged with fabric collages. Her mediums are oil paint, kitenge fabrics and sometimes acrylic.
Melissa Joe is a Kenyan visual artist and the president of The Hadassah Project. As she describes "Through The Hadassah Project, tomorrow's leaders get an opportunity to explore their uniquely gifted areas and thrive within them - something a lot of us have been unable to do
Joy Mandieka is a visual artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She studied Fine Art & Design at Kenyatta University. Although her practice involves painting, she also does pencil drawing, graphic design and fabric design.
Victoria N.Thuo, popularly referred to as Blaine 29 is a visual artist based in Nairobi. She specializes in Painting, graffiti/Murals.
Nita Ng'ang'a is a Kenyan visual artist and co-owner and curator of Unboxed Africa which focuses on artist discovery and logistics and provides solution driven value proposition for emerging artists who have little or no access to a market place.
Crista Uwase is a collage artist based in Rwanda and most of her works are painted with bits of torn paper pasted onto canvas. The work is composed of many layers of torn paper which are formed from different colours, textures, and weights of paper from various magazines or other printed material.
Artist Spotlight
Sheila Bayley is a painter and poet who uses acrylic paint on canvas to delve into the theme of identity. This soft-spoken artist exudes a deep sense of self-awareness, which is reflected in the detailed patterns of her work. Sheila gets candid about her artistic path, one that has made her question, research, and introspect mundane and intimate parts of her life. From what meal she is going to whip up in the kitchen to how to paint broad strokes of who she is in her evolution.
Current Exhibitions
The Art Kultured & April Kamunde Art Studios would like to welcome you to the opening night of the 5 Lenses exhibition
Rangi Gallery is happy to announce our next curated exhibition in partnership with Alliance Francaise, Dar es Salaam will be held on 6th October 2021 titled Memories of The Unknown, an exhibition featuring sculptures, paintings and sound by Eltayeb Dawelbait (SU/KE) and Safina Kimbokota (TZ)
Banana Hill Art Gallery is proud to introduce the "Power of Three", an exhibition featuring Adeshina Ademola | Nigerian, Anne Mwiti | Kenyan and Mazola wa Mwashighadi | Kenyan-Jamaican
Miska Mohmmed creates lush, effervescent paintings inspired by the meeting of the natural and the man-made, as observed in her home city, Khartoum. Working primarily in acrylics and oils, her works feature undulating gestures let loose across the picture plane, with subtle colour gradations suggesting an interplay between land, water, air, flora and fauna.
The exhibition is an exploration of coping strategies. Through artworks in different mediums, the artists offer a glimpse into the universe of human perception.
Between The Zones is an exhibition featuring John Kariuki and Jimmy Kitheka and it explores impressionistic comparisons that portray an artistic perspective of urban, rural sceneries and cultures from both Kenyan urban and rural views.
Kesho Kutwa – the day after tomorrow, heralds re-birth and renewal in a post-pandemic Kenya. The exhibition’s second objective is to bring together 5 accomplished Kenyan artists – Peter Ngugi, Beatrice Wanjiku, Michael Wafula, Peterson Kamwathi and Dennis Muraguri - that have created new works – paintings and woodcut prints that capture the endearing human spirit of re-birth and renewal.
LATITUDES COLLABORATES WITH ARTNET AND AFRICA FIRST TO PROMOTE NEW ARTISTIC VOICES FROM AFRICA
'Resonance in ‘A wild infection, of the wildly shaken public minds’.
An attempt to describe the human self informs the recent work of Beatrice Wanjiku.
For her, the internal self is the centre of our intuitions, emotions and beliefs; the place where the inner person is first found, then prized out and delineated.
Various Small Fires, a group exhibition featuring artists from Kenya, Tanzania & Eritrea presented by Circle Art Gallery in Nairobi