One Off is hosting two exhibitions this month - 'Line' and 'New works'
Line
|
One Off is pleased to present
Line the basic element Private View: Saturday, 28 July - Noon to 5pm Exhibition run: 28 July to 21 August 2018 |
|
About the Artists
Patti Endo (b. 1997)
Patti Endo was born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied Fine Art Painting and Critical Thinking at the University of Brighton, UK.
Through exploratory and intimate figurative drawings, Endo documents her inner and outer states of being. She works primarily in fine graphic inks and sparse line compositions. Endo has exhibited variously in Nairobi and was recently a participant in a group show, Washa - simple tales in complex times at the Create Hub Gallery, Dubai. A member of the now Kuona Artists Collective since 2015, Patti lives and works in Nairobi. |
    |
Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser (b. 1995)
Fraser studied Fine Art with a Major in Painting and Sculpture at Kenyatta University between 2014 and 2018.
His work is driven by a need to ground the human body as an object in space and time leading him to displace the motif of the figure in compositional space through a variety of media. His work has been exhibited in group shows in Nairobi where he currently lives and works. |
     |
Janice Iche (b. 1995)
Janice Iche is a performance and visual artist living and working in Nairobi, Kenya. Of Kenyan and Tanzanian ancestry, Iche was born and raised in Mombasa and credits her mixed heritage and coastal upbringing in her approach to making art.
Having moved to Nairobi to pursue a career in the arts, Iche draws on her own life experiences to create her work which centers on the objectifiction of women and their supposed role in the patriarchal society we occupy. Iche studied Urban Planning and Communication Studies. |
  |
Mercy Kagia
Mercy Kagia was born and grew up in Nairobi before moving to the UK to attend art school. She gained a BA (Hons) in Illustration before moving on to a Masters in Drawing as Process. Her academic achievement culminated in a PhD in Documentary Drawing from Kingston University, London. She has been teaching in higher education since 2003 in various colleges and universities in London and Bavaria, Germany, as well as running drawing workshops in various countries.
She has exhibited widely in UK, Bahrain and Germany. Her work is mainly based on direct observation and for this she has been commissioned to document various events and projects as a reportage artist. |
     |
Ndeithi Kariuki King'aru (b. 1978)King'aru holds a Diploma in Graphic Design from Creative Arts Centre, 1998 as well as a Certificate in Printing Technologies from Academy of Graphics Technologies, 2003.
Working in a diverse range of traditional media, his practice is primarily driven by process, media and technique. His art is heavily influenced by music as well as an exploration of emotion and isolated moments in time. King'aru has exhibited widely in Nairobi and his work is held in private collections within the USA, South Africa and Kenya. He lives and works in Tigoni, Kenya. |
  |
Longinos Nagila (b. 1986)Nagila graduated from the Buruburu institute of Fine Arts, Nairobi in 2009 and went on to study Documentary and Film making at the Apulia Film Commission in Bari, Italy.
Nagila's multimedia approach to art making is marked by his contrast of seemingly unrelated fields; faith, fashion, mass production, advertising, migration. He held his first solo exhibition in Lecce, Italy in 2009 and he has since continued to exhibit regularly locally and abroad. Nagila lives and works in Nairobi as a member of the Kuona Artist Collective. |
 |
Peteros Ndunde (b. 1996)
Ndunde is a young artist living and working in Nairobi.
As a recipient of the 2016 MASK Prize, Ndunde's work was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London. Still in 2016, he completed a residency with the Brush Tu artist collective and has since joined as a member. He has exhibited widely in Nairobi. |
  |
Agnes Waruguru Njoroge (b. 1994)
Agnes Waruguru Njoroge received a B.F.A. with honors in Painting and a minor in Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia in spring of 2017. She earned an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the United World College of Southern Africa, Mbabane, Swaziland in 2013.
Her art is one of disclosure, using her cultural background and nomadic lifestyle as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, printmaking, needlework and installation. Her work has been exhibited in group shows internationally, including galleries in Savannah (GA), Valencia (CA) in the USA; Lacoste, France and Nairobi, Kenya. She currently lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya. |
  |
Sebawali Mwakai Sio (b. 1987)Sebawali Sio has a Diploma in Art History and French Civilization from La Sorbonne, Paris and an MSc in Law and Accounting from the London School of Economics, 2012.
Her work primarily deals with the sexual, physical and emotional abuse of women. Seeing her work as a form of self portraiture, Sio seeks communion through her art in a manner that suggests a shared identity with all women. Now a member of the Buruburu based artist collective, Brush Tu, her art practice has been shaped by the multiple pedagogical interactions she has had with other artists in Nairobi. She has exhibited several times within Nairobi where she currently lives and works. |
   |
David Thuku (b. 1985)David graduated from the Buruburu Institute of Fine Arts in 2009 and in 2013 he co-founded the Brush-Tu Studio, a creative arts collective providing artists with studio space and collaborative exchange.
Marking a departure from his initial practice as a painter, Thuku works primarily on paper now with a continued interest in figuration, sign and symbols. His process is one of continued experimentation and integration. In 2016 he joined the Kuona Trust Arts Centre before moving to the Kobo Trust artist studios, Nairobi in 2017. |
    |
Florence Wangui (b. 1986)
Growing up, she immersed herself in drawing as her 'quiet fun space'. And even the walls and tables provided an excellent choice of 'canvas' for her activities. So accurate were her renderings that her drawings of biological subjects on chalkboard were often used by her Biology teacher to teach in secondary school.
After completing her bachelor degree studies, she pursued her 'first love' as a profession and started out under the tutelage of artist, Patrick Mukabi. More recently she has worked under Scottish glass painter and artist, John Clark. Together they have created works of fused glass, notably for the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Kericho. She also worked on 'Stations of the cross’ and bronze door panels for the same building. Just lately, Florence has been mentored by Argentinian artist, Dolores Gomez, in oil painting. She loves to draw, drawing she finds is the 'rawest form of communicating’ through art. Wangui also works with other different media including oil paint, fused glass sculpture and clay sculpture, amongst others. She also teaches drawing and painting to youth at primary schools and in Nairobi prisons, alongside fellow artists in her community art group. For inspiration Wangui draws on her own life experiences and shares her perceptions through her art, particularly the beauty of the cycles of life, what people draw from them and how it shapes their lives |
    |
Anthony Wanjohi (b. 1986)While not a formally trained artist, Anthony gained his artistic skill through interactions with other artists in Nairobi.
His work makes use of a wide range of media and he has recently taken to screen printing with an eye focused upon the ubiquitous street vendor. PressEastAfrican - 11-08-2018 - Drawing the line at a naked truth
|
|
Exhibition openings are usually on the last Saturday of every month, excluding December. The gallery remains open on Sundays allowing anyone who missed the opening to catch the exhibition the next day. Do join our mailing list so we can send you an invitation.