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Furthermore, AQFM continues my instinctual performance practice which taps into the primordial for its foundation. I see my single and multi-screen video installations as performative, sculptural objects in which the physicality of video creates a new world, in which the viewer is located in both the ancient and postmodern.

Grace Ndiritu (Kenya/UK) lives and works in London. She studied at Winchester School of Art, London; De Ateliers, Amsterdam (1998-2000); and had a UK studio residency at Delfina Studios, London (2004-2006). Her 'Hand-crafted videos' and 'Video Paintings' have been widely exhibited, recent solo shows at Artists Film Survey, ICA London (2011), Artprojx Presents at Prince Charles Cinema (2009), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005).

Recent group shows include those at the International Center of Photography, New York (2009), Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2008), Dakar Biennale,Senegal (2008). She won the 1st Prize for Landscape Video and Photography, at the Centre for Art and Nature, Spain (2010). Her work has been commissioned by Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (2010), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), and Glynn Vivian Gallery, Wales (2006).

Grace Ndiritu's work is also housed in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and private collections such as The Walter Collection, Germany and New York specializing in Contemporary Photography.

Video Art Collection www.axisweb.org/artist/gracendiritu

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“Within my work, there’s always a core of the ancient, which is very important, because I always play with two time scales. I use contemporary media, and I talk about contemporary themes, but I’m interested in transcending that and using a sense or an energy that is more ancient. I trained in core shamanism, which means I know how to journey to the environmental realities called the Upper, Middle and Lower worlds, which animal and tree spirits inhabit.’