Yona Mudibo
Yona Mudibo is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in various media such as pencil drawing, oil and mixed media paintings, body art, mural painting, installations and string art. He is more well known for his work in body art, murals installations and string art. Most of these works are usually aimed at inspiring pride in African heritage and highlighting legends in African history, and campaigning for environmental conservation. He started making art from a young age but began a professional career in 2014.
Based in Mombasa, where he was born and raised, Mudibo has been involved in several exhibitions and projects around Kenya. These exhibitions include the Affordable Art Show, Safari ya Sanaa, Pwani Art Exhibition, among others. Projects include painting educational murals in the streets on preventive measures against Corona, and the Creative Economy project in which he and other artists did artworks to beautify the streets of Mombasa (the highlight of which was doing a mural inside the famous MacKinnon market, and a string art piece at the Railway Garden.
He has won several awards. From competitions in primary school to the most recent, a national competition, Sondeka Awards, in which he was awarded the “Best Traditional Artist” award in 2020.
Also a participant in a number of residencies including Bahari Huru residency, Anidan Art Center Residency among others, he has also become a champion against plastic pollution in the ocean.
He is currently working with Alliance Francaise de Mombasa on a project towards campaigning against plastic pollution.
Natalia Karczewska
Natalia Karczewska is a visual artist working with sculpture, installation, drawing and poetry. She graduated from the Faculty of Animation (2017) and the Faculty of Intermedia Art (2019) at the University of Arts in Poznań. Her diploma project was presented at the Maria Dokowicz Competition for the Best Diploma Project and received an award from “Czas Kultury” quarterly (2019). She has presented her works in The Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań (2020); Skala Gallery, Poznań (2018); Re Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków (2017); lokal_30, Warsaw (2017); BWA Zielona Góra (2017), and internationally: Villa Vertua Masolo, Milan (2020), Foothold, L.A.L.D., Polignano a Mare (2019). Since 2019 she has been part of Sandra Art Gallery – a collective and nomadic space. She works as an assistant at the Painting Department of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Currently represented by Stereo Gallery from Warsaw.
