PETER
MARTIN Chauganga (1959)
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Peter Martin was born
in 1959 in the village of Kwamdorwa, in the Korogwe District
of the Tanga Region, Tanzania. Of Myao tribe origin, he
left his village in 1971 to look for work in the town
of Tanga where he met the painter Damian
MSAGULA. Peter Martin became one of Damian Msagula's
first students in 1971 and in 1974 he started painting
on his own.
Peter
paints mainly village scenes in a storytelling style.
He has gradually come out of the Tingatinga mainstream
in such a way that his work would now be best described
as naive painting.
Today Peter Martin's works
can be found in inumerous private collections and in various
publications. His erotic paintings have also gained quite
a reputation.
source: "Tinga Tinga, the popular
paintings fom Tanzania", Y. Goscinny and "Art
in Tanzania 2000", Y. Goscinny
Selected
Exhibitions
Peter Martin Chauganga "Turtle
Story"
Peter Martin
GALLERY
