Kimathi Donkor, Black History Painting. Installation view at Niru Ratnam, 2024. Photo courtesy Niru Ratnam.


Black History Painting

Kimathi Donkor’s 2024 solo exhibition at Niru Ratnam Gallery in London situated new and recent paintings and drawings alongside existing works from the artist’s extensive depictions of figures, events, mythologies and ideas from black history.

 Kimathi Donkor - Mary Prince Dictating to Susanna Strickland (2023, Acrylic on linen, 160 x 200 cm)
Kimathi Donkor - The Death of Clinton McCurbin (2023, Acyrlic on linen 160 x 200cm)
Kimathi Donkor - The Miraculous Destiny of James Somerset (2024, Acrylic on linen, 165 x 200cm)
 Jean Charles Menenzes borne aloft by Joy Gardner and Stephen Lawrence (2010 Oil on canvas 190 x 160 cm)
Mary Prince Dictating to Susannah Strichland (2023 Watercolour, pen and graphite on Arches paper 39.5 x 49.5 cm)
Mary Ingham Dictating to Mary Prince) (2023 watercolour, ink and graphite on Arches paper 39.5 x 49.5 cm)
T Ras Makonnen (2023, watercolour, ink and graphite on Arches paper 39.5 x 31 cm)
 Maria Firmina dos Reis reads to Henry Tate: Luís Gama, Donald Rodney and Isabel Braganza confer (2014 oil on canvas 100 x 80cm)
Kimathi Donkor, Black History Painting. Installation view at Niru Ratnam gallery, 2024. Photo courtesy Niru Ratnam.
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439 New Cross Road [*video still] (2015, 19:10 mins, HD video)

For more about these artworks:

Black Art is Too Good to be a Fad by Waldemar Januszczak

Black History Painting at Niru Ratnam gallery