It’s a celebration of Nianell’s four active range, Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana’s exemplary leadership and Anna ‘Kakurukaze’ Mungunda’s activism in ‘Amazing Namibian Women’.
A charity exhibition and auction currently on display in the National Art Gallery of Namibia’s foyer honouring the likes of Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Queen Mwadinohmo Martha Nelumbo, Meunajo Tjiroze as well as Katrina Hansa-Himarwa and Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to benefit Sister Namibia’s Power Pad Girls.
Power Pad Girls is an initiative that works to provide re-usable pads to girls in primarily rural areas to allow for basic dignity, increased school attendance and the completion of their education while the exhibition hopes to encourage artists to participate in charitable causes.
Featuring work by Julia Hango, Hildegard Titus, Nicola Brandt, Nambowa Malua, Vaughn Riekert, George Edward, Petrus Shimii, Frans Nambinga, Rasai Haindere, Ismael Shivute, Mateus Shilongo, Tafadzwa Mitchell Gatsi and Nicky Marais, ‘Amazing Namibian Women’ is wrought in paint, mixed, print and digital media as well as pencil and photography.
By no means exhibiting the entirety of Namibia’s amazing women, the collection is a result of a list generated by the National Art Gallery of Namibia and Sister Namibia and a subsequent selection by the featured artists as conceptualised and facilitated by Kleopas Nghikefelwa with crucial support from the Namibian Airports Company.
The women selected range from celebrities as recognisable as Lize Ehlers, Maria Nepembe and Dillish Mathews to incredible activists, entrepreneurs, doctors, writers, performers, teachers, models and social workers such as Sister Namibia’s Elizabeth Khaxas, Liz Frank, Rosa Namises, Dr Helena Ndume, Hilda Basson-Namundjebo, Jo Rogge, Sandy Rudd and several more.
Still on display after an opening night auction and a quiz night, ‘Amazing Namibian Women’ invites viewers to add more amazing names to the blackboard on display as part of the exhibition. Proceeds from both the auction and the quiz night will go to Power Pad Girls.
The project gives thanks to the featured and other artists who “strive to celebrate the incredible women of this country while constructing and visualising a society that does the same”. It also gives thanks to the women, those depicted and those who aren’t, “whose achievements are shared by the nation and have helped us progress away from patriarchal patterning and towards equality”.
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