Remi Rana-Allen

Brilliant.

This was an informative, in-depth talk focusing on a personal story developed into an art practise.

Remi discussed the family history of her great aunt, who was the first woman to be sentenced to death in Kenya.

With arts funding, Rana-Allen visited Nairobi three times to search the records and to fill in the narrative of her family. Even down to the old photographs, she identified the trees and hills to locate her great aunt.

This was encouraging and refreshing, and the work she used to narrate this story was compelling.