In Conversation with Artist Kimathi Donkor

Tuesday 12 October 2021

Lisa Anderson in Conversation with Artist Kimathi Donkor

 

Artist and academic Kimathi Donkor and curator and writer Lisa Anderson, discuss Donkor’s Lambeth Black History Month exhibition “The Notebook Series: Celebrating Young Women in South London”, on from 7 Oct to 7 Nov 2021 at Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ.

Lisa and Kimathi will converse, engage and collaborate with the audience, discussing how to channel inspiration and self-confidence into the artistic process.

Dr Donkor gained a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts in 2016. He also holds an MA degree from Camberwell College of Art and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College. He is of Ghanaian, Anglo-Jewish and Jamaican family heritage, and as a child lived in rural Zambia and the English west country.

Lisa Anderson is a writer, curator and arts advisor specialising in Black British Art. She founded the educational and promotional platform Black British Art.

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