Michael Armitage paints contemporary East African subjects on lubugo bark cloth, whose seams and irregularities remain visible. Political demonstrations, nightlife, landscape and art-historical references share the same unstable surface.
Painting
Artist Films
Meet Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage
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Major Works
- 2019The Promised Land
- 2016The Chapel
- 2016Nyali Beach Boys
- 2017The Fourth Estate
- 2017Conjestina
- 2014Kampala Suburb
- 2019The Chicken Thief
- 2019Pathos and the Twilight of the Idle
- 2015Mangroves Dip
- 2019Anthill
Interviews & Writing
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