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Introducing Wesley Osoro.
Wesley Osoro is a gifted artist from Nairobi, Kenya, who has built a remarkable career centered on his evocative paintings and his dedication to uplif...
Events
Online Exhibition!
June 3, 2025 - June 5, 2025
Online
Wesley Osoro is a gifted artist from Nairobi, Kenya, who has built a remarkable career centered on his evocative paintings and his dedication to uplifting young artists through the Uweza Foundation. Born 17th, April, 1996, he continues to redefine perceptions of his community through his work, using art as a powerful tool for social change and inspiration. His journey began in 2012 when he discovered the foundation Kibera’s only initiative at the time supporting aspiring artists where he gained access to essential materials, mentorship, and a dedicated space to refine his craft. Through the sale of his artwork, he financed both his high school and university education, eventually earning a Bachelor of Arts in History and International Relations at Catholic University of Eastern Africa a testament to his resilience and determination. His work is deeply personal, often featuring faceless figures as a metaphor for unseen voices within his community. Wesley challenges conventional narratives of Kibera, portraying its vibrancy, resilience, and complex human stories rather than the usual depictions of struggle. His pieces, rich in color and emotion, have been exhibited in Kenya and internationally, earning admiration from collectors worldwide. Wesley remains committed to giving back. Every weekend, he teaches free art classes at the Uweza Foundation, mentoring young artists and fostering creativity within his community. His dedication to education and artistic empowerment ensures that the next generation of Kibera’s artists has the support and inspiration they need to thrive. He continues to redefine perceptions of Kibera and prove that art can be a powerful tool for social change.
TRIBAL ART LONDON.
September 30, 2024 - October 5, 2024
Evolution London- Battersea Park
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FRAGMENTS OF IDENTITY - 1ST EDITION 12-17 JULY 2024
July 11, 2024 - July 13, 2024
Boomers Gallery.
Fragments of Identity” aims to showcase this diversity, highlighting how each piece contributes to the broader conversation about what defines us. Some artists go into the depths of personal history and cultural heritage, while others experiment with new forms and mediums, continuously reshaping the understanding of self.
Synonymous Subjects
July 3, 2024 - July 31, 2024
OOA Gallery
Okello Orege Art is pleased to present Synonymous Subjects, an online presentation of recent works by Brian Kimani and Mark Maganga. Speed, silence, stillness. Faceless characters divorced from the commotion of the environment, and yet despite their anonymity, these actors represent an individuality and intention that is only found in such bustling metropolitan hubs. The two artists, through di"erent means but to the same e"ect, address the relationship between our temporal reality- that time is #nite- and how we engage with it through the routine acts we perform everyday. With an intimate urgency, Synonymous Subjects investigates the underpinnings of quotidian life. Both Brian Kimani and Mark Maganga recognise the contemporary artist as a cultural nomad, moving between peoples and places, constantly redirecting, reformulating, and reinforcing their worldview. Like the cacophony of sights, smells, and sounds that exist within these urban landscapes, the artist must continuously shi$ and shape to a similar sensorial degree, in order to capture in real-time the creation of the new. Thus, between maker and viewer lies a deep responsibility of coexistence. The reminder that each action is not done in isolation but co-created with, and contributed to, by authors of the same reality, in a process of shared ownership. Brian Kimani produces work which highlights an encoded awareness of one’s origins, giving way to an aesthetics of nostalgia, in which tomorrow looks like yesterday. He achieves this with the authenticity of his characters, all of whom are unfazed by the voyeuristic lens that follows them as they go about their daily activities. Kimani’s bold colour pale%e, using primary reds and blues, o"ers a dynamism that directs our a%ention to the small details that would otherwise go unnoticed amongst the cha%er of the crowds. This technical precision, of cultivating genuine scenes in which culture and people collide o$en in transit before they continue on their journey, is born from being a conscious member of the community. Mark Maganga gives equal importance to the microscopic and the macroscopic, where proximity plays on distance, and memory plays on history. Using experience as guide and imagination as a practice of freedom, Maganga’s images are a collective intelligence of gestures and echoes, signs and symbols, that speak to modern sensibilities. His loose compositional structure playfully expands and condenses, regularly using luxury vehicles or high-rise buildings as a point of departure, to express how the triviality of the material tends to warp the signi#cance of our cultural moments. Re&ecting o" their shiny, metallic surfaces, Maganga asks us to instead #nd awe in the blue skies and &u"y clouds that hover above us. Synonymous Subjects is a conversation for re&ection about who we are within a world full of stimuli. If the essence of time is to reveal purpose, both artists simultaneously disclose that our purpose as humans is to live in the continuous rhythm of the past, present, and future. For Kimani and Maganga, contemporaneity is the thing yet to come, the anticipation of the present and invention of the future. It is this organisation of chaos that builds itself into neighbourhoods, towns, and cities, ultimately becoming places of vitality; for living, for being
VISIONS & POSSIBILITIES!
November 27, 2023 - December 5, 2023
Bermondsey Project Space,London
An exciting, unique exhibition by emerging contemporary Kenyan artists, showcasing over 30 amazing artworks by 18 Kenyan young artists, took place on Tues 28 Nov – Wed 06 Dec, Bermondsey Project Space, London, SE1 3UW. Click on more info to watch the video!