Join us at the LLDC's Good Growth Hub (GGH) for a sharing and social session with East London Art Prize shortlisted artist Kuda Mushangi in conversation with Vyonne Mirara, Shared Training and Employment Programme (STEP) trainee and Gallery Assistant at the Nunnery Gallery. You will learn about Kuda's practice as an artist and architect as well as get clued up on all the amazing opportunities and programme the GGH have on offer for artists and young people in east London.

Kuda will be on hand to provide an insight into his experience of the Prize and what it is like working and practicing as an artist and architect in east London. Kuda views his paintings as an opportunity to explore the emotional complexities that arise from migration. His works are deeply rooted narrative, storytelling, and allegory, with love, loneliness, joy and self-doubt drawn out as common themes.

Following the conversation, we will open the floor with plenty of opportunities for you to ask questions and connect with others in the room to carry on the discussion with drinks and snacks!

This event will be held at the Good Growth Hub, Unit 1-28, Echo Building, E Bay Ln, London, E15 2SJ. It will run from 6pm-7pm, with a social and networking until 8pm.

Please note, there will be photography taken at this event for Bow Arts and LLDC & GGH's internal reporting and for sharing in print and social media.

This event is co-curated by Win Yi Sandra Lam, Curator: Programmes & Engagement at Bow Arts and Deborah Mayaki, Senior Programme Manager at Good Growth Hub.

Free - Tickets must be booked to guarantee your place!

More about Kuda Mushangi

Kuda Mushangi, born in 1995, is an artist and architect based in London. Mushangi studied architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture and earned his Master of Architecture degree in 2020. He gained recognition as a young emerging artist through an open-call competition held by Tate Modern and Tate Collective in 2020, and his work was featured on a billboard in Brixton, London. In 2021, he was awarded the Holy Arts Art Gallery Prize and was featured in Artist Talk Magazine. In 2022, he became a finalist for The Ingram Prize, the leading contemporary art collection in the UK. In 2024 Mushangi’s artwork was exhibited at the London Design Festival. Mushangi is eager to continue pushing and sharing his artwork within the broader art community.

More about the London Legacy Development Corporation

Formed in April 2012, the London Legacy Development Corporation’s purpose is to use the opportunity of the London 2012 Games and the creation of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to develop a dynamic new heart for east London, creating opportunities for local people and driving innovation and growth in London and the UK.

More about the Good Growth Hub The Good Growth Hub brings together people and businesses in east London to offer career opportunities, training and skills to 18- to 30-year-olds in our community, and fresh new talent to local businesses. The Hub is part of the LLDC’s plan to connect businesses surrounding east London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, with local talent through a wide range of employment, skills and enterprise activities and programmes. The Good Growth Hub is operated by A New Direction.

www.goodgrowthhub.org.uk

More about A New Direction

A New Direction is an award-winning non-profit organisation working to enhance the capacity and agency of children and young people in London to own their creativity, shape culture, and achieve their creative potential.

www.anewdirection.org.uk

Access information

If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this event or would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of attending, please email nunnery@bowarts.com

Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!

About the East London Art Prize Events Programme

The East London Art Prize events programme is a dynamic, free public programme open to all, which builds on the Prize’s ethos of providing ongoing support, development, and networking opportunities for artists in east London and beyond.

Featuring a constellation of workshops, talks, panels, lates, socials, labs, walks, and takeovers in collaboration with our Prize partners and featuring some familiar faces from our shortlist of 12 fantastic artists, this year’s events programme celebrates and pays homage to the huge abundance of talent and creativity nestled in east London.

These events have been developed by Wan Yi Sandra Lam, Curator: Programmes & Engagement at Bow Arts in collaboration with our Prize partners the British Council, The Line, London College of Fashion (LCF), London Legacy Development Corporation, University College London (UCL), V&A East, Whitechapel Gallery and Dulux.

Find out more about the wider programme here.

More about the East London Art Prize

The East London Art Prize is an all-media art prize designed to showcase the talent of artists working and living in east London, with an accompanying event programme supporting artists’ careers and opportunities. The Prize is generously funded by Minerva and Prue MacLeod. Find out more on the Prize webpage here.