Zambian Visual Artists
Below are profiles of some Zambian visual artists. To find out more information about them, click on the links to their personal websites or use the contact details to get in touch. If you are a Zambian artist and would like to have your profile on this page see the contact page to find out how to do so.
Janet Bazibe
(Livingstone)
Biography
Janet Bazibe was born in 1995 in Livingstone, Zambia. She completed Grade 12 at Linda High School in 2013. While there she took art classes, which continued to be of interest beyond school days. Finally, she ventured to be a painter and plans to continue doing art part time while pursuing a career in Chemical Engineering. She participated in the national exhibition at the Livingstone Art Gallery in 2014.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 965 744432, +260 975 866222Email: janetbrown082@gmail.com
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Chansa Chishimba
(Livingstone)
Biography
Born in 1956, Chansa Chishimba was trained at Nkwame Nkrumah Teachers College in Kabwe, Evelyn Hone College of applied Arts and Commerce in Lusaka, Zambia and at the Baltic School of Arts and Design in Skone, Sweden. He works as a sculptor, textile designer and painter. Chansa Chishimba initially worked on paper, canvas and jute. In September 1982 he started research in different types of trees and techniques of processing Zambian traditional tree bark fibre cloth. In 2004 he first experimented with Papaya tree bark fibre and prides himself in being the first Zambian visual artist to paint on it. He has since adopted his new discovery as a painting ground for all his recent art works, which have become very popular on the art market.
Contact details:
Private gallery: House No. 61 John Hunt Way, LivingstonePhone: +260 977 364419, +260 955 878356
Email: chishimbachansa56@gmail.com
Website: www.facebook.com/chansa.chishimba.92
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Lemmy Kaseba
(Livingstone)
Biography
Lemmy Kaseba, a teacher of Art and English, was born in 1975 in Chongwe District of Zambia. He trained as a Primary School teacher at David Livingstone College of Education from 1997 to 1998 and got his Art Teachers’ Diploma with a major in Sculpture from Evelyn Hone College in 2009. His artistic streaks were noticed long before he knew he was a born artist. His quest for art ruled most of his life as a child; if he was not drawing he was modeling with clay or assembling something. He played and lived art, but never gave it a thought until he was about 25 years old. Kaseba is an all-round Artist though he paints more than sculpting or assembling. His painting is peripatetic. He doesn’t follow any rules, theme or movement, though he likes the post-impressionist painters, especially Vincent Van Gogh. He gets inspired by clouds, the way they change form freely anytime. He feels art must flow freely just like the clouds and is best coming from the artist’s point of view. His paintings are bold and aim to make one feel part of the painting. Kaseba, who is currently the Chairperson of the Southern Province Branch of the Visual Arts Council, says he loves art and will die painting!
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 724818Email: kasleyart1@gmail.com
Website: www.facebook.com/lemmy.kaseba
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Suse Kasokota
(Livingstone)
Biography
Suse Kasokota was born in Nchelenge, Zambia in 1979 but grew up in Livingstone where he completed his secondary education. Like many young Zambian artists he is self-taught but owes much of his apprenticeship experience to art workshops, particularly the Insakartists workshops of 2007 and 2008. Kasokota has already exhibited with others in Livingstone and Lusaka, South Africa, and in a Russian mobile exhibition. He has also held solo exhibitions in Lusaka. His preferred medium is acrylic on canvas or hessian, but he experiments with different mediums to produce a surreal mix of subject and colour in painting and sculpture. Trademarking his work are the bright ‘cords’ that form varying foregrounds and backgrounds. Symbolic of promoting peaceful co-existence they have an unnerving complexity about them which is difficult to express in words.
Contact details:
Private gallery: Suse’s Ka-Arts Gallery, 17 Chimwemwe Way , Livingstone.Phone: +260 978 246509
Email: kasokotasuse@yahoo.co.uk
Bernard Kopeka
(Livingstone)
Biography
Bernard Kopeka was born in 1963 in Mpulungu. He is a self-taught artist based in Livingstone and started painting in 1987. He is also a member of the Visual Arts Council of Zambia. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Livingstone and Lusaka over the last 15 to 20 years. He is currently a member of a group of artists who exhibit in the open-air Mosi-o-tunya Art Gallery in Livingstone.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 978 637088Artwork
Muhau Lubinda
(Livingstone)
Biography
Muhau Lubinda was born in 1984 in Mwandi District in western Zambia. He acquired an Art Teacher Diploma from Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce in 2013. He is the founder of the Kingfisher Arts group and currently lives in Livingstone. He has exhibited at Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka and at the Livingstone Showgrounds and Wayi Wayi Art Studio in Livingstone, and has produced wall murals in various places in both cities.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 978 171 427Email: muhaulubinda@yahoo.com
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David Makala
(Lusaka)
Biography
Born in 1983 in Lusaka, David ‘Daut’ Makala attended Kabulonga Boys Secondary School. He is a self-taught artist and most of his artworks reflect is ongoing exploration of the abstract in nature. He took up art seriously in about 2006, after attending August Studio workshops organised by Mulenga Chafilwa for upcoming artists at the Visual Arts Council in Lusaka and also joined the Arts Academy Without Walls. He later joined Kachere Art Studios before leaving to join the Roots of Expression studio in Lusaka, where he is active as a freelance sculptor and painter. Between 2008 and 2010 he studied under seasoned artist Alix Nkazi, attending a two and a half year apprenticeship programme, and has also been mentored by painter Stary Mwaba. His surfaces combine acrylic paint applied in a staining technique, often enhanced with embedded objects. He has participated in various exhibitions in and around Lusaka. In 2013 he was a key player in the construction of a towering Christmas tree in Lusaka made of 9,000 discarded plastic bottles, alongside other artists. He has exhibited at a variety of venues in Lusaka and Livingstone
Contact details:
Phone: +260 973 153533Email: dautmakala@gmail.com
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Samuel Manduli
(Livingstone)
Biography
Born in 1970 in Mwense, Samuel Mpande Manduli is a self taught artist who has been practising art since 1985. He has exhibited at a number of group exhibitions in Livingstone and Lusaka. He is a member of the group of artists who exhibit their paintings at the open-air Mosi-o-tunya Art Gallery in Livingstone.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 979 603323Artwork
Crawford Mandumbwa
(Botswana)
Biography
Crawford Mandumbwa is a Zambian Artist based in Francistown, Botswana where he has taught and lived half of his life. He is a multi-talented Artist who dabs in fine arts, graphics, photography, multimedia and his new found love - 3D modelling. Besides teaching art at John Mackenzie High School, he has also been involved in community art projects in and around Francistown. He is a widely travelled and exhibited artist whose life and works have been covered in the press and graced the covers of prestigious magazines. Mandumbwa says, “Be it in acrylic or water colour, my utmost desire is that of portraying our people’s undying will to survive. How they strive, jostle and improvise to get by from day to day never ceases to amaze me.”
Contact details:
Postal Address: Box 121, Francistown, BotswanaPhone: +267 71223819 (mobile), +267 2412503 (home)
Email: mandumbwa@gmail.com
Website: www.cmandumbwa.blogspot.com
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Louise Mandumbwa
(Botswana)
Biography
Louise Mandumbwa was born in 1996 and is currently based in Botswana. She is a visual artist and self taught photographer. She has grown up surrounded by ink, canvas, acrylic and charcoal, under the strong artistic influence of her artist father, Crawford Mandumbwa. She studied art at John Mackenzie School in Francistown, Botswana, and attained a distinction at the IGCSE level. She is currently studying art at A-level. She works mainly in watercolour and pencil, and does mostly portrait photography. She is eagerly trying to broaden her skills, venturing into digital media and aspiring to study graphic design professionally.
Contact details:
Phone: +267 74 055811Email: louise.kenga@gmail.com
Website: Lokaylo-louise.tumblr.com
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Vincent Maonde
(Livingstone)
Biography
Vincent Maonde was born in Lusaka in 1949. He completed his secondary school education at Prince Philip High School in Lusaka in 1968. He graduated from Sir Evelyn Hone College, Lusaka in 1973 with a 4-year diploma in Art and Design. In 1984 he obtained a higher diploma in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design from the Reigate School of Art and Design in London. He headed the Arts and Design Department of the Livingstone Museum for 27 years, playing a key role in the development of the Southern Province Branch of the Visual Arts Council, of which he was chairperson on and off for many years. He has exhibited widely over the past 40 years both in Zambia and abroad, including Canada and Sweden.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 525325Artwork
Alina Mateke
(Livingstone)
Biography
Born in 1995 in Livingstone, Zambia, Alina has always been creative and very interested in the arts. Growing up with her mother who is an established artist exposed her to exhibitions and other artists at a very young age. She had no formal art training at school although she participated in an art club. Pencil, charcoal and acrylic are her main mediums, although she has also experimented with oil. She is currently pursuing a degree in Visual Art. Throughout her life Alina has been inspired by various artists from around the world, but among the Zambian artists her mother is her biggest inspiration.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 117570Email: lina.mateke@gmail.com
Website: www.facebook.com/pages/Alina-Mateke-Art/583737211667874
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Clare Mateke
(Livingstone)
Biography
Clare Mateke was born in Lusaka, Zambia, but has lived most of her life in Livingstone. Although she has loved drawing since childhood, she has had no formal art training. Encouraged by fellow artists Clare took up art seriously in 2006. Having previously experimented with pencil, pen and watercolour, she started painting with acrylics and found she really enjoyed it, and has since participated in a number of exhibitions in Livingstone and Lusaka. Clare works as a biologist and much of her artwork, which she does in her spare time, is inspired by her love of wildlife and nature. Apart from painting birds and other animals, she also does portraits and landscapes.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 446080Email: clarematekeart@gmail.com
Website: www.clarematekeart.blogspot.com
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Benjamin Mibenge
(Livingstone)
Biography
Benjamin Mibenge was born in 1947 in Mansa, Luapula Province of Zambia. He completed Secondary School at Nkumbi International College in 1971 and the same year was enrolled at Sir Evelyn Hone College, where he did a diploma in Graphic Design. He was employed at Zambia Information Services as a Graphic Artist/ Exhibition Officer. He designed a lot of textile designs and many other publicity materials and was responsible for designing and supervising the construction of pavilions and displays at International Trade Fairs, both in Africa and abroad. In 1985 he resigned to join the National Heritage Conservation Commission as a Graphic Artist, responsible for all the graphic works and exhibitions, the major exhibition being that of the Railway Museum in Livingstone. He retired in 2002. In 2003 he was contracted to help design and mount the permanent exhibitions at the Livingstone and Moto Moto Museums. In his spare time he has always drawn, mostly subjects related to wildlife and the forest, due to his having been an environmentalist for many years and a believer in traditional conservation methods and practices. He says, ‘Through our visual artwork and practices we can influence people’s perceptions for a better understanding and appreciation of a greener environment for today and the future.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 984 139868Email: benjaminmibenge@yahoo.com
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Eva Middleton
(Kalomo)
Biography
Eva Middleton, nee Loades, was born in 1951 in Zimbabwe. She qualified as a registered nurse and midwife before marrying Kalomo farmer, Tony, in 1975. She first started painting in the 90's when artist and teacher Elaine Danckwerts started Kalcho Art Group. She quickly became passionate about the happy accidents of watercolour and firmly believes that anybody at any age can learn to paint really well if they would like to. Farm life, wildlife and a growing family (including artist Tamryn Pohl) provide diverse and willing subjects. She has won a number of art prizes, competitions and awards and her work is recognized for the delicacy and simplicity of traditional, transparent watercolour. She exhibits widely and for many charities and has also had work shown at Mall Galleries in London. She is currently working towards publishing a book, which she hopes will help anyone enjoy painting with watercolours. Her work can always be found at Choma Museum.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 836010Email: tonyevamidd@gmail.com
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Peter Mtonga
(Livingstone)
Biography
Peter Mtonga was born in Kitwe, Zambia in 1985. He grew up as the sole artist in the family, although he never studied art at school. He only took it up seriously in 2000. Mtonga learnt his art techniques from other artists, including finger millet mosaics and painting with oil and acrylic. He first sold his art in Solwezi at shopping malls, later participating in trade fairs in Ndola and Lusaka. He attended workshops on Design (2008) and Entrepreneurship (2013) in Ndola and Livingstone respectively. In 2010 he started his own gallery in Livingstone with only a few pieces of finger millet mosaics and paintings by the roadside. Over the years he expanded the gallery and now has a shelter which he shares with other artists. Mtonga loves the stories behind art. Most of his works depict traditional African life in villages and by rivers, showing fishing, animals, sunsets, traditional women and pots. He works mostly from imagination in various media: finger millet mosaics, oil and acrylic paintings, crushed stone mosaics, banana leaf collages, papier-mâché and beadwork. Mtonga hopes one day to open an art school to teach art to the new generations.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 954 057878,+260 969 670906,+260 977 360574Email: mtongaartcenter@yahoo.com
Website: www.facebook.com/ pages/Mtonga-Art-Center/226770840829883
Gallery/Studio: Mtonga Art Gallery (Mosi-oa-tunya Road, Livingstone, next to Bushtracks)
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Mulenga Mulenga
(Lusaka)
Biography
Mulenga J. Mulenga was born in 1987. She is a freelance versatile young female Zambian artist. She has been practising her artistic skills on a professional level since 2009. Mulenga is a painter, sculptor, writer and photographer. She holds an Art & Design Diploma from Evelyn Hone College of Commerce and Applied Arts and has participated in numerous art exhibitions within Zambia, including a solo exhibition in 2011. She has also participated in a number of art workshops. She was a finalist in the Ngoma awards for Best Female Artist in 2011-2012 and won the 2012 StArt Foundation competition for Semi-professional artists. She also has a particular interest in art administration and is a committee member of the Insaka International Artists Trust (IIAT) and works in the Insakartists Office. Her works are typically characterised by palette knife marks and the use of raw colours. Mulenga says, “I capture the feeling of a moment and share it with my canvas and palate. At the end of the day it is just a moment [in the journey of life] that I bring out in my artworks.”
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 219127Email: kutangila@gmail.com
Website: www.kutangila.wordpress.com
Studio: Art Academy Without Walls (AAWW), Showgrounds, Lusaka, Zambia
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Charles Mwanza
(Livingstone)
Biography
Charles Mwanza was born in 1962 in Lusaka, Zambia. He is a self-taught artist who specialises in carving wooden crafts. He designs and decorates various traditional musical instruments, such as drums, xylophones and thumb pianos. His technique allows him to create a vast range of tones and shades. He has exhibited his craftwork at various places in Livingstone, Lusaka and Kafue.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 978 337 420Artwork
Patrick Mweemba
(Choma)
Biography
Born in Monze in 1946, Patrick Mweemba is a print maker, sculptor and painter. He was educated in Lusaka and Kitwe. In 1999 he received a diploma in Master Art from ICS, USA. Patrick worked for the Ministry of Labour and Community Services, Kitwe from 1966-1968. He then joined the Commercial Bank of Zambia as a clerk until 1973. He began painting in 1969 after attending a six-month course in drawing and painting at a private school on part-time basis. He began printmaking in 1975 in Lusaka and served on various art committees, namely Art Centre Foundation, Zambia Art Centre, and recently Visual Arts Council for 2 terms. He worked for Mpapa Gallery from 1984-1992. He has attended many regional, international and local art workshops and participated in many regional, international and local group shows, in addition to his many one-man shows. Finally, he worked for Choma Museum and Crafts Centre (CMCC) from 1996 to 2007. He is now a farmer and artist in Choma. He currently works one day a week with CMCC as Assistant Co-ordinator for the Schools Art Competition, which runs from September to November each year.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 800944Artwork
Peggie Kawanga Ngoi-Omar
(Livingstone)
Biography
Peggie Kawanga Ngoi-Omar is a retired English Teacher and part-time cross-stitch artist. Born in 1962 in Mwense, Zambia, she has a BA Ed (English Major) from University of Zambia. She has taught English at various levels for nearly three decades in Zambia, South Africa, Singapore and China, and is now based in Livingstone, Zambia. Peggie learnt the basics of cross-stitch about 40 years ago but only took it up seriously a few years ago. She does intricate work on various themes. Her favourites are animals, nature, religious and floral themes. Each work takes three to five months to complete, every stitch being hand done. Peggie will take commissions to do portraits in cross-stitch and is also keen to teach this ancient skill to others. If interested in learning, get in touch with her.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 973 677333,+260 955 954057,+260 967 530584,+260 213 320646Emails:
peggiekawangaomar@yahoo.com, peggiesmagichands@gmail.com
Skype: kawanga191
Website: www.peggiesmagichands.blogspot.com
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Sydney Nyeleti
(Livingstone)
Biography
Sydney Nyeleti was born in 1988 in Chongwe District. He has been drawing since childhood but started painting on canvas in 2009. Nyeleti is a self taught artist who had a rather rough background. He grew up in Lusaka with only his Mother, who had financial difficulties, making it impossible for him to complete his grade 12 at school. However, in spite of his predicament Nyeleti did not give up on life. At the age of 18 he discovered that he could sign-write, so he started practicing hard and did a lot of sign-writing for shops around Lusaka. Three years later, in 2009, he started painting on canvas and the following year began to take part in exhibitions at the weekly Sunday Market at Arcades Shopping Mall. In 2011 he became a member of the Visual Arts Council and was given a studio at the Art Academy Without Walls (AAWW). There he worked & interacted with prominent artists such as Mulenga Chafilwa, Charles Chambata, Nsofwa Bowa Wilson Lungu and Andrew Katembula. After some months working there he was called by Mukuba Copper Crafts to work as an artist in Livingstone, which he did for about a year. In 2012 he left Mukuba and, together with other fellow artists, created an open air art gallery and studio called “Mosi-o-tunya Art Centre”. The centre, situated along Mosi-o-tunya Road in 217 area of Livingstone, is where Nyeleti currently works and exhibits from.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 965 616316Email: sydneynyeleti@yahoo.com
Gallery: Mosi-o-tunya Art Centre, Mosi-o-tunya Road, 217 area, Livingstone, Zambia
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Firoz Patel
Biography
Firoz Patel trained as a commercial artist but now works mainly in fine art. Art has always been part of his background and as far back as he can remember he was always experimenting with art and colour. He works with various art materials and techniques and describes himself as an experimental artist. He started with inks doing “dot and line” illustrations, followed by poster paint and water colours, though now he only paints in oil and acrylics. He started painting wildlife and later progressed to other subjects, such as African patterns and landscapes. Firoz’s vibrant work of his “pointillism”, or dots, is his trademark, and is as unique as a fingerprint. Although his work is technically challenging, it also exudes great humour. He studies his subject matter thoroughly before painting. His paintings are made up from numerous colour dots and from close up these dots clearly dominate, but when viewed from a distance the image becomes visible as a whole. Opposite to that he has also introduced a range of work with flat colours, a complete contrast to the style he has become known for. A visual journey of Zambia is a way to describe his work, and his art is a journey through various realms. Everything seems to attract Firoz with a challenge and inspiration. Flora, wildlife, urban & rural life, the Zambian people, traditions and culture have all captured his imagination and come under his brushstrokes. He has had both solo and group exhibitions and is a popular artist in the Zambian art world.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 422 590Email: frzpatel@yahoo.com
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Augustine Sikambala
(Livingstone)
Biography
Augustine Sikambala was born in Zimba, southern Zambia, in 1983, where he started school. He completed school at Linda High School, Livingstone in 2005, where he took art as a subject. He then studied International Tourism and Hospitality Management. However, his love of art led him into the field of painting and he has been working as an artist ever since. Children and nature are his inspiration, and he uses the bright colours that children love to paint mainly animals. He also likes painting conversational pictures to encourage children to ask questions about them. His unique painting style results in brightly-coloured, happy-faced, cartoon-like African animals, often resembling pages from a children’s picture book. In 2011 Augustine entered an art competition run by Olga’s Italian Corner and was one of the nine winners selected to create artworks for the new guest rooms at the Lodge. He operates from a small shop at Mukuni Park Curio Market where he has been exhibiting and selling his paintings since 2006.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 979 312936Email: ouraugustine@yahoo.com
Website: www.facebook.com/augustine.sikambala
Display of artwork: Mukuni Park Curio Market, Shop No. 44, Mosi-o-tunya Road, Livingstone
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Gijsbert Witkamp
(Choma)
Biography
Bert was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1944. Following secondary school, he obtained an art teaching diploma at the Rietvelt Academy of Art. From 1975 he combined art teaching, study and creative design. He became a graphic artist and painter. He moved to Zambia in 1976, where he worked up to August 1980. In 1976 he established an association of cooperating artists together with Patrick Mweemba, David Chibwe and Fackson Kulya, the Lusaka Artists Group, later renamed the Zambia Artists Association. He also taught Technology of Art at the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka. He continued to make graphic art. He also developed a mosaic technology based on Zambian raw materials. In 1980 he completed a large (10 x 5.4m2) mural at Society house made of Zambian tiles. He went back to University from 1980 to 1988, where he obtained an MA in Cultural Anthropology at the State University of Leiden, with majors in non-Western Art and Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa. His thesis was about Zambian makishi of North-Western Province. He returned to Zambia in 1988. He is the founding director of the Choma Museum and Crafts Centre, which also has an art gallery. Presently Bert mostly makes drawings in colour and he has again picked up painting. His recent work combines clearly bounded geometrical elements with evocative textures and patterns.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 955 533644Email: zamfactor@gmail.com
Website: www.zfactorart.com
Blog: www.artblog.zamart.org
Studio: Plot 92, Choma, Zambia
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Agnes Buya Yombwe
(Livingstone)
Biography
Agnes Buya Ng’ambi Yombwe was born on 18th February 1966. She is a mixed media artist. She received an Art Teachers diploma from Evelyn Hone College in 1989. She has a certificate in Art and Design from Wimbledon School of art, London, United Kingdom in 1993. She taught art at Libala and Matero Boys Secondary Schools in Zambia for 7 years and at Bonnington and Donga Community Junior Secondary Schools in Botswana for 10 years. Agnes is a prolific and successful experimental artist who has won 10 awards both locally and abroad including first prize in print/graphics category in Artist in Botswana in 2003 and Best artwork by female artist in the Franco-COMESA Club exhibition of 2005. She has held 4 solo exhibitions and has also undertaken prestigious studio residencies at the Edvard Munch in Oslo Norway in 1995 and at the McColl Centre for visual Arts in North Carolina IN USA in 2002. She has exhibited in Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, and Indonesia. Her work is in private and public collections. She currently runs WayiWayi Art Studio and Gallery with her artist husband Lawrence Yombwe in Livingstone, Zambia, where she conducts various art clubs and workshops for both adults and children.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 965 559101,+260 976 641420Email: wayiwayi1966@gmail.com
Websites:
www.facebook.com/agnessbuya.yombwe
www.facebook.com/wayiwayi
www.site371242.webydo.com
Gallery: Wayiwayi Art Studio and Gallery, Plot No. 2613/392 Kalukuluku Street, Livingstone, Zambia
Postal adress: P. O. Box 60779, Livingstone, Zambia
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Lawrence Yombwe
(Livingstone)
Biography
Lawrence Yombwe is an accomplished painter and one of Zambia's foremost prolific artists. Born in 1956 in Kalulushi, Zambia, he started his career as a self taught artist, holding his first solo show at the Copperbelt Museum in 1979. In 1980, he began his formal art training at the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe. He then studied Graphic Art at Evelyn Hone College and later obtained an advanced certificate in fine art (painting) at Croydon College, London. He worked as a graphic artist for Ndola Catholic Diocese and Mission Press from 1981 to 1983. He taught art in schools for many years in Zambia and Botswana. He has held numerous solo exhibitions locally and abroad and won several awards. He established the documentation centre at the Visual Arts Council Headquarters in Lusaka. He also initiated Christian Art Workshops in Zambia. Now based in Livingstone he is a full-time professional artist and Director of Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, which he jointly runs with his artist wife Agnes Buya Yombwe. His art highlights traditional ideas and images, including symbols borrowed from the Mbusa initiation practises of the Bemba people, which have formed unique patterns of identity in Zambian society.
Contact details:
Phone: +260 977 325799Email: wayiwayi1966@gmail.com
Websites:
www.facebook.com/wayiwayi
www.site371242.webydo.com
Gallery: Wayiwayi Art Studio and Gallery, Plot No. 2613/392 Kalukuluku Street, Livingstone, Zambia
Postal adress: P. O. Box 60779, Livingstone, Zambia
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ZigZag
(Norway)
Biography
ZigZag, otherwise known as Samuel Nawa, was drawing and painting by the time he was 6 years old. By the age of 11 he was selling his artworks at a Sunday market in Lusaka, Zambia. He lived in various places in Africa while growing up, but eventually found himself in Livingstone, Zambia, where he established himself as an artist. He started displaying his artwork at Mukuni Craft Market, later moving to the Arts Café, where he became a recognized visual artist, selling numerous paintings. In 2011 ZigZag started working at JollyBoys International Backpackers as a resident artist and decorated all their rooms at two locations. He also painted on site, frequently doing commissions for guests. The same year, he exhibited his works at the Zambezi Sun Hotel in Livingstone and at 3B Gallery in Trondheim, Norway. ZigZag has painted a number of large murals of Zambian scenes on various walls in the centre of Livingstone. In 2013 he held a solo exhibition at Jollyboys International Backpackers, of children’s portraits, for which he was mentioned in The Post, a leading national newspaper. This was followed by an exhibition of self portraits at his home studio. The same year he exhibited in a national group exhibition in Lusaka and his artwork was rated number one by the public. ZigZag, who lives and depends on his art, uses a variety of media, including acrylic, oil, pencil, ink and markers, and covers a wide range of styles. He recently moved to Norway, to explore a new market for his work.
Contact details:
Email: nawaart@yahoo.caWebsite: www.facebook.com/pages/Zigzag-zambian-artist
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