by Borderlands Art | Apr 1, 2022 | Events and Talks
To mark the occasion of the Kampala installation, a discussion was held at the Chemistry Department at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda on 1st April. Installation curator, Dr Helga Rainer was in conversation with Prof. Sylvia Tamale (School of Law Makerere...
by Borderlands Art | Dec 23, 2021 | News
My name is Manuela Lara, I’m from Colombia, and the mediums I used for this artwork are hand-made papers made of natural fibers from Colombia. And then I painted on those papers with a 19th-century technique, terrific technique called ‘Van Dyke Brown’, it’s an...
by Borderlands Art | Oct 5, 2021 | News
Tell us about how you decided to become an artist and why?Since I was a child, I loved talking to all kinds of people, asking them about their stories, and exploring the intimacy of their lives. On the other hand, I grew up in a family sensitive to aesthetics, a...
by Borderlands Art | Jul 6, 2021 | News
Nakitende Sheila twists, stitches, and burns as she experiments with natural textures and reinvents barkcloth making. The Ugandan artist recently presented her work in her studio in Kampala. Read the full article on Contemporary And.