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September 15th, 2008
Welcome to my new portfolio website!
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news archive
upcoming exhibition
November 5th, 2008
‘A Nairobi Teatime’ was painted for the ‘Africa Now’ exhibition arranged by the World Bank and held in Washington DC later this month.
latest exhibition
December 4th, 2008
Africa Now!: Emerging talents from a continent on the move. Opening on the 9th of December at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C.
You can read more about the exhibition and the programme of events on the World Bank website, or download the flyer here.
new image
February 16th, 2009
Please have a look at the new image that has been posted under COMMISSIONS on my gallery page. This painting was a private commission done recently in Kenya.
london art fair battersea park
February 19th, 2009
I will be exhibiting as part of the Catherine Miller Gallery at the upcoming Affordable Art Fair in London, Battersea Park from Thursday 12th March to Sunday 15th March. This is a huge art fair that hosts 120 different galleries and thousands of artist of all types. Please see their website www.affordableartfair.com for more information.
exhibiting at the pan african cultural festival in algiers this july
June 1st, 2009
I am excited to finally announce that I have two new paintings being exhibited at the 2nd Pan African Cultural Festival being held in Algiers this July! Back in January I was invited to produce work for their exhibition ‘Africaines’ which will include artwork from a selection of contemporary African women artists. The festival will feature thousands of artists from all disciplines including visual art, theatre, dance, film, fashion etc. It aims to attract millions of visitors and highlight the ‘Artistic Renaissance’ that is sweeping through Africa. For more information please see their website; www.panafalger2009.dz Or visit www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-17-voa.cfm for a great little article about the festival.
back from the algiers…
July 14th, 2009
Recently back from my 5 day trip to Algeria. It was great to finally meet Nadira Laggoune, the curator of ‘Africaines’ the exhibition which featured my work and that of around 20 other female artists. Visit: http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/6984/en for an article about this specific exhibition. The high-light of the trip was meeting and getting to know fellow artists from Africa. We spent our time getting to know the city of Algiers and its colourful people, experiencing some roller coaster taxi rides, eating pizza, escaping the heat under our favourite Bedouin tent and enjoying some of the many events that made up the Panaf’ 09 festival. The festival and exhibitions run until the end of the month so anyone curious to visit the tourist-untouched Algiers, now is your chance. Please click on the following facefbook link to see my photo album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125075&id=514709739&l=7eea6c3aec
the east african newspaper: maggie and larissa go to panaf..
August 5th, 2009
in this weeks east african newspaper: Maggie and Larissa go to Algiers to send up the politicians…