2015 Gate Curate Artist in Residence Two-month invitational residency and exhibition at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London. Supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust.
Kimathi Donkor's installation for Gate Curate features his 'Stretch and Bar' paintings, which re-arrange abruptly the conventional positions of canvas and stretcher bars in order to evoke a new series of significations. If fresh portraits of the Gate's current cast are visible on the 'reverse' of the canvas, then what might still be concealed on the, now hidden, 'correct' side? Also on display will be 'Debruised', a mural that improvises playfully on Zimbawean national motifs.