Born in the Southwestern part of the country, Ndagire Racheal is a Ugandan multi-faceted textile and fibre artist with speciality in weaving, hand embroidery among others.
She studied art at all levels of her education, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Art and Industrial Design( with honours from Kyambogo University in 2019.
She has participated in various art exhibitions at Tadooba Gallery including the ‘Am The Inspiration I Need’ at the end of her internship where her work was first recognized by an art blog in ‘The Independent” Her works have also been exhibited at different art fairs and events where she allows the audience to interact with her art practice.
From strikingly colourful crotchet tapestries to painstakingly hand-stitched silhouette portraits, she examines the relationship between craft-based materials and techniques, and contemporary art. She majorly plays around with colour, shapes and implied lines to create her works that tackle social issues focusing on the current climate and mental health in society.
Her practice is process-based whereby she collects waste fabric, and old and discarded clothes among others from tailors and open markets, cleans and sorts them into different colors; cutting them into strips that are later used to create the artworks using various techniques.
This practice ensures that she up-cycles as much textile waste as she can, not only sensitizing the masses but also becoming a part solving the problem her works seek to address.
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Born in the Southwestern part of the country, Ndagire Racheal is a Ugandan multi-faceted textile and fibre artist with speciality in weaving, hand embroidery among others.
She studied art at all levels of her education, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Art and Industrial Design( with honours from Kyambogo University in 2019.
She has participated in various art exhibitions at Tadooba Gallery including the ‘Am The Inspiration I Need’ at the end of her internship where her work was first recognized by an art blog in ‘The Independent”
Her works have also been exhibited at different art fairs and events where she allows the audience to interact with her art practice.
From strikingly colourful crotchet tapestries to painstakingly hand-stitched silhouette portraits, she examines the relationship between craft-based materials and techniques, and contemporary art. She majorly plays around with colour, shapes and implied lines to create her works that tackle social issues focusing on the current climate and mental health in society.
Her practice is process-based whereby she collects waste fabric, and old and discarded clothes among others from tailors and open markets, cleans and sorts them into different colors; cutting them into strips that are later used to create the artworks using various techniques.
This practice ensures that she up-cycles as much textile waste as she can, not only sensitizing the masses but also becoming a part solving the problem her works seek to address.