(MY SELF AND OTHERS, Sand, Oil And Archival Pigment Ink On Cotton Canvas, 2013, 79x117cm)

Born in post-Amin Uganda, and educated in Uganda and London, artist Lucy Namayanja lives and works in London, England. Her hypnotic images are an abstracted version of the many complexities of life and the human condition. In her artist statement, Namayanja says of her works,

I am imaginative, prolific and diverse.I have always expressed myself through the medium of Art earlier, through fashion, designing clothes and interior design. Recently through drawing, craft, photography, Installations and sculptures.

Dyslexic thoughts, visual distortion, chaos in order.

My enthusiasm lends the desire to discover myself as separate centre of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body. A centre, which confronts an external world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange. It is as sense of being two souls in one body — a rational soul and an animal soul.

I create series of works using nature as a primary decorative source that symbolises the expression of the whole realm of nature that symbolises birth, life growth, death and decay as a unique action of the total universe. The work expresses a growing apprehension about our existence in a rat race that traps living organisms.

Lucy Namayanja will be displaying her works, including organic sculpture from the 18th to the 21st of September, in an exhibition titled “Things” as a part of a group show in collaboration with the African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora.

(I AM ALIVE, Sand, Oil And Archival Pigment Ink On Cotton Canvas, 2013, 79x117cm)