We look to the year ahead with guests Amah-Rose Abrams, John Mitchinson and Scott Bryan, who recommend the art exhibitions, books and TV series that should…
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s January 2021 issue
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s January 2021 issue
Each month Wallpaper offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover. For our January 2021 Next Generation issue, young Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami drew on her experience of social media to create a new painting,
Plains of the Christmas Cow.
Plains of the Christmas Cow
The vivid brushwork and confident colour palette of Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s paintings suggest a mature hand. But there is something about their composition that is indicative of the artist’s youth. They suggest the inexhaustible variety of life while pointing to the experience, familiar to every digital native, of scrolling through Instagram and Tumblr. Within the same canvas, she often shows multiple domestic scenes, intermingling images from her family archives with found photography