Black Excellence: Wambui Kamiru Collymore
Wambui Kamiru Collymore is a visual artist who mainly creates installations. She currently works on themes of decoloniality, womanhood, memory and history and more recently, online dis-identity. Wambui’s work incorporates everyday objects and the use of at least three senses of perception. Her work has been exhibited in Kenya, South Africa, Poland, Germany and Denmark. She currently lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya.
Born and raised in Kenya, Wambui has been developing artwork around the themes of decoloniality, identity and independence in Africa. Originally a painter, Wambui now expresses her work through installation.
Wambui holds an MSc. in African Studies with a focus on Violence, History and Memory from the University of Oxford. She lives and works in Nairobi.
Wambui Kamiru Collymore is the founder of The Art Space, an online art gallery.