TOP 15 – LONGLISTED 2024 Artist: Kenneth Otelu
Title: For My Brother
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 180cm x 200cm
Year: 2024
Born, in December 1985, Kenneth Otelu is a full-time artist based in Kampala, Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial and Fine Arts degree from Makerere University, Uganda.
He is a multi-media artist whose latest works entail the use of oil pigments, with which he sets out to create intricate and meticulously layered patterns on the bodies of contemporary themed human figure paintings.
His selected entry artwork is part of his current body of works “Akandoya”, in which he sets out to cover a close-to-heart theme to the artist, that involves tied up people recreating scenes of spiritual, political and social struggles in humanity that the artist has witnessed throughout his life.
Email: diotelu@gmail.com
