This exhibition is in honour of the lives of two leading contemporary Kenyan women artists who dedicated their lives to telling life-changing stories using their art.
Rosemary Namuli Karuga and Annabelle Wanjiku Reeno are renowned as pioneers in their unique areas of artistic excellence.
The National Museums of Kenya is showcasing the best of both artists from its collection. The exhibition will open to the public on 8 March 2021, to coincide with International Women’s Day and will run until 31 May 2021.
This exhibition is in honour of the lives of two leading contemporary Kenyan women artists who dedicated their lives to telling life-changing stories using their art.
Rosemary Namuli Karuga and Annabelle Wanjiku Reeno are renowned as pioneers in their unique areas of artistic excellence.
The National Museums of Kenya is showcasing the best of both artists from its collection. The exhibition will open to the public on 8 March 2021, to coincide with International Women’s Day and will run until 31 May 2021.
Dates: Until December 8, 2018
Venue: the Nairobi Gallery
Entry: Museum Rates Apply
Exhibition by nine remarkable women from East Africa, namely; Joy Adamson, Rosemary Karuga, Robin Anderson, Nani Croze, Margaret Trowell, Magdalene Odundo, Geraldine Robarts, Yony Wai-te and Theresa Musoke
Date: Until December 8, 2018
Venue: the Nairobi Gallery
Entry: Museum Rates Apply
Exhibition by nine remarkable women from East Africa, namely; Joy Adamson, Rosemary Karuga, Robin Anderson, Nani Croze, Margaret Trowell, Magdalene Odundo, Geraldine Robarts, Yony Wai-te and Theresa Musoke
Rosemary Karuga – The Kenyan Master in Collage Art (via the Gallery)
Dates: October 29 – December 3, 2017
Venue: Red Hill Gallery
Exhibition by: Rosemary Karuga – The Kenyan Master in Collage Art
About
Rosemary Karuga was born in 1928 in Meru, Kenya.
From 1950 to 1952, she was the first female student at Makarere University’s School of Fine Art in Kampala, Uganda, where she studied design, painting and sculpture. After graduation she moved back to Kenya and became a fulltime teacher.
It was only in 1987 – at almost 60 years old – that she again tapped into her artistic talent as an Artist-in-Residence at the Paa ya Paa Arts Centre in Nairobi.
Rosemary Karuga became a highly esteemed and respected artist in the Kenyan art scene, with an increasing international reputation. She had her international breakthrough in 1990 with a group exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Other international exhibitions followed in quick succession.
Rosemary Karuga’s artistic expression is very personal and has a unique technique. Her ‘tools’ are coloured paper scraps – from newspapers, glossy magazines, to packaging material, scissors and glue. Inspired by Byzantine mosaics, she creates colourful paper collages of people, animals and landscapes of intense strength. Her work reflects her direct environment in figurative representational art.
Directions to the Gallery
From Village Market join Limuru Road. After 13km turn left down a dirt road, signposted “Zereneti”, continue for 200m, keep left (ignore the road climbing sharply right), after 50m take the right smaller track. Red Hill Art Gallery is located at the end of the track on the left side (red metal gate) Karibu!
