Artist biography
Letaru Dralega is a Ugandan Jamaican British artist and researcher based in Kampala, Uganda. Her research interests include the material/immaterial dichotomy in African(a) philosophy and spirituality in the Black Atlantic whilst her process-centered practice experiments across collage, painting, installation, and sound to contemplate rupture/ repair, memory, and belonging in this “post-colonial” moment.
A social scientist by training she holds a Masters of International Development with African studies (2019) from Sciences Po Paris, France. She received a Prince Claus seed award supported by the British Council (2022), UNDP Uganda’s creative innovation grant (2022) and is an alumna of 32 degrees East Ugandan Arts Trust (Kampala 2017), Asiko Art School (Praia 2022), Hyde Park Art Centre, and a fellow of the Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences Lab, Chicago (2024).
She has contributed research to projects such as Pillars of Rectitude: East African Women Artists of the 1960’s - where she focused on Theresa Musoke’s Aesthetic philosophy and Conflux Radio: Bisi Silva Legacy research with CCA Lagos. She currently co-directs Afropocene Studio Lab an interdisciplinary research space in Kampala and The Capsule, an Independent public platform established to promote experimental, immersive, and alternative exhibition formats in Kampala.