PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Hanny Ahern is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from New York. Her design work is inspired by the venture into play as a means for finding design solutions. Her artwork is an investigation between disciplines both incongruous and patterned often blurring lines between disciplines and extending herself outside the comfort zone of materials and craft. Hanny is passionate about collaboration and implementing creative practices for cross disciplinary work. Joining the Muungamo Kibao project starts with a curiosity and willingness to dive in, engage, heal and build peace.
"I want to find out what happens when minds and hands from different cultures come together to discover there capacities for creating beauty, utility, narrative or celebration. The energy lies in not yet knowing what will be and I suspect we create something much greater than ourselves."
Joel
Lukhovi, born and raised in Nairobi is a Kenyan photographer. As a self-taught photographer, with engineering background, Joel feels at home in his constant search for the
unending patterns of life. Presently Joel's works oscillates between diverse mediums. He uses photography, literature
and collaborative projects to address social issues. His work deals with liberation
and identity. He
maintains that without a visual identity we have no community, no support
network and no movement. Another
aspect of his practice is the ability to organise projects with artistic
interventions to promote exchanges cutting across indigenous and the modern
international platforms.
"I would like to participate in the project as part of my communal photography and collaborative projects that I so often engage myself in. I believe it is important as artists to work and interact on the same platform so as to expand our thinking and develop the manner in which stories can be told in a honest manner."
Boyd Hill AKA ‘Solo One’ has been practicing graffiti based art since the mid Eighties in the Midlands. He has built up over 20yrs experience in painting commissions, organizing graffiti events and delivering youth workshops all around the UK and internationally in South Africa and Adu Dhabi.He has been one of the most prolific UK graffiti artists in recent times. His work is an energetic and abstract view of the world incorporating many different influences from tribal art to traditional graffiti lettering.
He uses lots of different mediums to create multi-layered works, which are very individual in style and content. Currently his outdoor gallery is on the Stockwell Park Estate in Brixton, which is painted every few days. Solo One continues to make art for the street and has exhibited in Azerbaijan, Cape Town, New York and Tokyo. He continues to keep a low profile within the Street art scene and creates collectable one off pieces from his studio in South London.
"I believe the main aim of working with the youth is to teach creativity with a back to basics approach to art by creating dialogue and encouraging young people to use their imagination. The most important thing you can do is to pass on your skills and ideas to others because often the idea you first had will come back improved. ."
Lionel Richie Okeyo Garang is a young Kenyan artist, half Tanzanian with Kenyan and Sudanese roots. After secondary school Lionel started his artistic career by drawing graffiti on the p.s.v vehicles known as Matatus
around Nairobi. He then got an internship at the national museum of Kenya where he started
making sculptures fiber glass matt and resin. He now has a studio at Kuona art centre and practices painting and sculpture. Most of his sculptures (masks) are made using wood, metal, plastics and empty spray cans.
"I would like to work with the children of Pepo La Tumaini Jangwani and teach them about art. I am looking forward to collaborate, share, work and exchange ideas with the other international artists."
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