Lauren Beukes is a South African award-winning, internationally best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV. Her awards include the Arthur C Clarke Award, the prestigious University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Prize, the Strand Critics […]
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Fathy Salama is a producer, composer, arranger and pianist. He is the Arab World’s only Grammy Award and BBC Award winner. Cairo-born Fathy’s first introduction to music was through Arab greats like Om Kalthoum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Farid El Atrash and through occidental classical music such as Bartok and Tchaikovsky. He started playing the piano
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After a highly competitive selection process we are delighted to share a little more about the nine artists who will be taking up residencies at various institutions around the world. Introducing the 2015 Africa Centre Artists In Residency Award Laureates: Collin Sekajugo | Visual Artist | Uganda Francois Knoetze | Visual Artist | South Africa Kato Change |
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A charismatic performer with inimitable improv chops, Kato Change flirts with virtuosity. The guitarist’s beaming onstage persona is paired with a nimble command of his instrument. Kato continually draws from a heritage of jazz legends as well as flamenco, rhythm and blues and rock genres, creating sounds that are both familiar and utterly singular. Kato
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Nana Oforiatta – Ayim’s work deals predominantly with the creation and hierarchy of narratives. Like many creatives from Africa and its diaspora, she believes that its not enough to write, but that it is also necessary to create the structures and discourse within which our work is received. To this end she set up a
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Liza Grobler (b. 1974) lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work explores the tangible qualities of materials and the connections between people, artworks and the world around us; her installations create dialogues with the spaces in which they are displayed. The viewer is encouraged to travel with her into an imaginary world where fact
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Following artistic study tours to over 15 countries around the world, Collin Sekajugo returned to Rwanda in early 2007 with a mission to “USE ART TO CHANGE LIVES.” Over the last 6 years, these words have become more than a credo for the self-taught artist, who dedicated himself to founding and directing Ivuka Arts, the
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Born in Cape Town, 1989, Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. He holds a BA Fine Arts degree from Rhodes University and an MFA in Fine Arts degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. In 2012 Knoetze featured as one of Art South Africa magazine’s ‘Bright Young Things’ and was recently
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Tamrat is a prolific visual artist from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His art focuses on indigenous thoughts, cultures and rituals. By paying attention to traditions that surround him, he feeds his innate need to connect these spirits and knowledge with other counter cultures in harmony. He recently became attracted to the study of indigenous knowledge and
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