Afro-Cubism Show Extended as Photography Festival Celebrates Women

By Iminza Keboge
Published September 10, 2018

An art exhibition titled Afro-Cubism Journey #1 at Nairobi National Museum (NNM) has been extended to September 30, 2018 for what the organisers say is ‘due to public demand’.

The exhibition features work sculpted by Robin Okeyo Mbera of western Kenya. Held in the Creativity Gallery of NNM, Afro-Cubism Journey #1 is part of what NNM calls The Mutuma Marangu Sculpture Collection.

Meanwhile, a photographic show that explores how different women have evolved over the past 100 years opens on October 4, 2018 in galleries and venues spread across East London from the Barbican in the City to the Walthamstow Wetlands.

The annual month-long event titled Photomonth 2018 launches with the Photo-Open at theprintspace gallery with the images on show focusing not only on how ‘Women [are changing] in the 21st Century’ but also celebrating 100 years since some women first gained the right to vote.

A series of free talks are set to accompany the exhibition as the World Photography Organisation holds a panel discussion on ‘A Woman’s Place in Photography’.

Produced by Alternative Arts, Photomonth exhibitions and events may be found in galleries and venues spread across East London from the Barbican in the City to the Walthamstow Wetlands; the full programme shall be online at photomonth.org/.

The Art Pavilion in Mile End hosts ‘Windrush: Portrait of a Generation’ by Jim Grover, Mike Seaborne explores the ‘Isle of Dogs: Before the Big Money’ at the Café Vert, the V&A Museum of Childhood shows ‘Little Happenings’, a remarkable body of work by Dorothy Bloom who has been taking photographs for over 70 years. ‘A Necessary Fiction’ by Basil Olton at the Idea Store Whitechapel looks at the subjugation of black history in the modern British context, and the Cass School of Art, Architecture, & Design pays tribute to Mick Williamson who has developed and run the Photography Department since 1972 .

An exhibition of very rare photography at the Four Corners Gallery will show the work of suffragette Norah Smyth who documented the East London Federation of Suffragettes led by Sylvia Pankhurst.