Author: ArtMatters.Info

By Lydia Gatundu Galavu Published February 24, 2007 Galleries in Africa are teeming with impressive Van Goghs, Rembrandts and Picassos. However, all these 19th Century European-look-alike masterpieces are created by contemporary...

She is a possessive mother hen with her art that she looks at like newly hatched chicks that must be protected from the hungry hawk. That is Irene Wanjiru, arguably Kenya’s most celebrated female sculptor, OGOVA ONDEGO...

Tanzanian artist Ally Nyomwa has won a UK Travel Scholarship for Artists 2004. He was selected from more than 200 international entries submitted to ROSL ARTS (the arts division of the Royal Over-Seas League) of the United...

After serving three years as ambassador in Kenya, Pierre Jacquemot returned home on November 14, 2003 with one thing in mind: to open a gallery dealing in Kenyan art in the French mecca of arts and culture, Paris. He spoke to...