Original Story Published by: Margaretta Wa Gacheru for Business Daily
(Above) Wallace Juma’s ‘Many Faces & Souls’ artwork.
Wallace Juma is a quiet an unassuming man, it would seem. But the graduate of Buru Buru Institute of Fine Art has made 2018 his year to come out and publicly ‘reflect’ on his life through various artistic styles and at assorted venues.
Wallace’s artistic presence was first felt in early 2018 when his Pata Pato painting won first prize at the Manjano Art Competition and Exhibition in March.
The large collage was made up of rows and columns of faces cut from glossy magazines, then coated in sooty smoke and finally etched to give an effect that was both haunting yet rather ghoulish.
But the judges loved it. I was left perplexed until I found two colourful collage and paper paintings by Wallace that were very different from the works he’d displayed during Manjano. Now I was curious.
It was now April and he was taking part in one of the monthly dusitD2 pop-up exhibitions at the hotel. But as he wasn’t around, I had to wait until June when he had his first solo exhibition at Alliance Francaise to hear him talk about his art.
Before that happened however, Wallace participated in two more group shows in early June, one at Muthaiga Heights curated by Beta-Arts; the other at the Attic Art Space.
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