Nairobi Province Visual Arts Exhibition 2010

Message from the Chair - Person

On behalf of the Nairobi Province Visual Arts Exhibition Committee, I wish to convey the gratitude and sense of collective achievement the Committee feels, from the tremendous response by individual artists, arts centres and arts training institutions, to the call for participation in the Nairobi Province Visual Arts Exhibition 2010. This year, over 200 artworks were submitted for selection into the Exhibition. The works on exhibition exemplify the diversity of artists based in Nairobi - from the formal student of art to the self-taught artist; from the emerging talent to the established practitioner; from representational art to abstract art.

The success of this Exhibition lies with a number of participants whom the Committee wishes to heartily thank. Volunteering to reach out to their networks of artists were Buruburu Institute of Fine Arts (BIFA), the National Museums of Kenya, Kuona Trust, the GoDown, RAMOMA, African Colours, Pan African Visual Arts Association (PAVA Kenya) and Kenyatta University Fine Arts Department. All these rallied together with the Committee, and ensured that the Exhibition took place. The annual Nairobi Province Visual Arts Exhibition truly has the potential to become an important date in the province's annual calendar of events, as it is a platform to showcase and promote visual arts in Nairobi province, and in so doing, to make art visible and accessible to the general public. Indeed the exhibition branded "Manjano" which means yellow in Kiswahili is a reference to Nairobi, the City in the sun. The Committee hopes that as you view and enjoy the art displayed, you will catch a glimpse of the very promising future prospects of the Nairobi Province Visual Arts Exhibition.

Joy Mboya
Chairperson
Exhibition Committee Organizing Committee