Some of Michael Armitage’s brightest and most vivid works are drawn from imagery originally made in black and white
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe title of his newly opened show, “You, Who Are Still Alive”, came to him as lockdown ended; and, indeed, only one of his subjects is no longer living. It is the first picture you see, and also the smallest, depicting the head of Koitalel Arap Samoei, a hero of the Kenyan resistance against British colonialists who began to build a railway across his tribal lands.
Mr Armitage’s habit is first to tease out ideas in Kenya, making photographs, informal videos and preparatory sketches, then to return to his studio in London to work these up into finished paintings. A major stylistic breakthrough came with his discovery of, the outer layer of bark from a ficus tree that is commonly used as a shroud in southern Uganda, but also makes for an unusual artist’s canvas.
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