Gakunju Kaigwa

Gakunju Kaigwa is an established Kenyan sculptor who graduated from Kenyatta University, Nairobi in 1980 with a B Ed in Fine Art. In 1993 he received his MA in Public Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He was accepted by the Apprenticeship Programme at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture in New Jersey, where he worked in the foundry and mastered the art of metal sculpture and casting in bronze, aluminium, silver and iron.

Working in the USA for several years, and attending numerous international workshops, Kaigwa returned to Kenya in 2003 and took a studio at Kuona Trust, Centre for Visual Arts from where he works on public and private commissions. He has been teaching fine art at the International School of Kenya for the last two years.