VISUAL ARTIST BOKANI WWW.ARTBYBOKANI.COM +447930243639 INSTAGRAM @BOKANI Our Common Home, 183 x 183 x 183 cm Mixed media : Acrylic paint, acrylic paneled greenhouse, moss, found chair and assorted plants
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01 63 HELLO@ARTBYBOKANI.COM +447930243639 INSTAGRAM @BOKANI Stain Glass Paintings painting on a mirrored s See me with compassionate eyes, love with generosity 20 x 20 cm Mixed media £650 A window of the soul 24 x 24 cm Mixed media £850 Towards transcendent fullness 40 x 40 cm Mixed media £975 Each others' keepers We are each others' keepers 49 5 x 49 5 cm Mixed media £2,075 Paradiso 120 x 60 cm Mixed media £2,750 Kingdom 120 x 60 cm Mixed media £2,750
REAL love series HELLO@ARTBYBOKANI.COM +447930243639 INSTAGRAM @BOKANI Love is as love does (2022) Acrylic paint, clay and canvas, hand painted frame 24 x30cm x 2cm £1,075 Love of self (2022) Acrylic paint, clay and canvas, hand painted frame 24 x30cm x 2cm £1,025 Love will last (2022) Acrylic paint, clay and canvas, hand painted frame 24 x30cm x 2cm £1,025 5 Live simply (2022) Acrylic paint, clay and canvas, hand painted frame 24 x30cm x 2cm £1,025 free to love (2022) Acrylic paint, clay and canvas, hand painted frame 24 x30cm x 2cm £1,025 Love generously (2022) Acrylic paint, clay and canvas, hand painted frame 24 x30cm x 2cm £1,025
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Landscapes of our forebearers, Acrylic paint on canvas 152cm x 122 cm x 3cm, £5,250 HELLO@ARTBYBOKANI.COM +447930243639 INSTAGRAM @BOKANI painting detail
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HELLO@ARTBYBOKANI.COM +447930243639 INSTAGRAM @BOKANI The New Hues of Blackness exhibition and presentation on Piccadilly Lights, Curated by Eddy Ade Akin, London 2021 ‘The Spaces In between’ exhibition with W1curates at Flannels, Oxford Street, London curated by Natalie and Naomi of @Everydayracism 2022 Digital Outdoor Showcases
Bokani is a multi disciplinary artist making works that address climate justice and integral ecology Chiefly concerned with our complicity, her works elicit a new response to nature and the patterns of our inter connectivity She works across different mediums, abstract painting, sculpture, computational art and installations Her public art builds on a tradition of protest art bringing interconnected environmental, racial justice and economic issues to the wider public
Bokani Tshidzu was born in Zimbabwe and moved to England as a teenager Her work is blending an African sensibility with the traditions of conceptual western art She studied Politics with Economics (2009) at the University of Bath, as well as a Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2022) specialising in Computational Art The key theme of her digital practice is journey, creating a narrative that takes viewers on an immersive experience She was co founder of a sustainability software firm for six years and has worked in finance and politics Following a spiritual pilgrimage on foot across the north of Spain, on the Ignatian Camino, Bokani made the commitment to working as an artist. She was discovered by BBC 1 for the show ‘The Big Painting Challenge’, and won the public vote in the first week. She lives and works in Bow, in London’s East End. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and in Paris.
Bokani’s technique involves urgent, gestural movements, exploring and responding to colours as they interact on the canvas She believes in the integrity, freedom and honesty of abstract painting Bokani has developed a method over several years of creating rational patterns that lead the viewers’ eye across the paintings, reminiscent of the dancing African printed cloths of her childhood This tension between creative abandon, emotional expression and technical discipline elicit dynamic responses, creating works that are an on going conversation between the artist and the viewer. Her digital works are infused with her colourful aesthetic and spiritual conversation, engaging with the powerful technology influences of our time; machine learning, computer visioning and artificial intelligence
BOKANI - CV & BIO
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Education Goldsmiths Coll Computational A University of Bat Politics with Eco Exhibitions The Spaces in Between, W1 Curates (London, UK) 2022 Some of us are brave III (Oxford, UK) 2022 BlackArtOutdoors Billboards (London, Leeds, Bristol, UK)2020 2021 Port of Call, Changing Room Gallery, (London, UK) 2021 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, (London, UK)2021 Seeing the Extraordinary, Battersea, 2021 Some of us are brave II , Stratford Library, 2021 The New Hues Of Blackness, MYO Victoria, 2021 Kaleidoscope: A Celebration of Colour, Drian Gallery 2021 Shivers, MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, 2021 Advent 2020, St Paul's Hammersmith, 2020 Art for Air, Old Bank Vault (UK), 2019 Blessed Art Thou Amongst Women, Mount St Jesuit Centre (UK), 2019 getLerped, Goldsmiths College (UK), 2018 Renaissance, Espace7(France), 2018 Chapter Ten, Library Members Club (UK), 2018 Still Life, Glasgow Distillery (Scotland), 2017 Still Life, House for an Art Lover, (Scotland), 2017 Landscape, Westonbirt Arboretum (UK), 2017 Expression (solo), Library Members Club ( UK) , 2015 Press
