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Baboucarr Etu Ndow -
Gambian Painter |
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Background & Biography:
 Etu - (Baboucarr
Ndow also spelt Baboucar) is based at
his (Tumbunto) Tunbung
Art Village
and Gallery in Tujereng (Tujering) in Kombo South
district. He was born in 1966 at Bakau,
The Gambia, and is today one of the leading talented artists
in the country. He became an art teacher in 1984 instructing
and encouraging school students in the visual arts then
later moved onto lecturing at the University of the Gambia.
He has appeared on several arts programmes on TV both
locally and overseas. Later in life he secured a student
place at the Art Academy Constantyn Huygens, in the
Netherlands at Kampen.
Style & Techniques:
He is distinguished
from other artists in his relationship and eagerness to work with
local naturally occurring materials, objects and the vibrant colours found in his
natural
 surroundings. It is important to him to have a balance between
the used materials, environment and vivid African colours such as
Ochre. He happily combines the local traditional materials around him
with contemporary techniques and acrylics producing richly textured
abstract works.
An important element in his style is the influence of
 sunlight on the
landscape, people and the different forms and forms of emphasis it takes in interacting with
them. He says "The sunlight surrounds me 12 hours per day. That
influences everything slightly". The other element are the everyday
sounds he hears as it gives him artistic energy which he translated
onto his canvasses.
Tunbung Art Gallery:
 The
centre was opened in 2002 and is used as his workshop as
well as to nurture and develop young local talent in he
country as well as in the rest of the West Africa region.
Tumbunto gallery has also attracted students from several
European universities. There are regular workshops and
exhibitions displaying his and other aspiring students
works. The studio is located out in the open and forms the
centre state and focus of his artistic efforts. The place is
one of a few local initiatives aimed at stimulating new
interest in painting and other creative endevours in The
Gambia.
Work Experience:
• 1984 – 1988 art teacher at a secondary school
in Gunjur
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1989 – 1990 teacher in St Joseph Girls High School,
Banjul
• 1990 – 1994 he run a gallery, the "African Art Collection
Center" in Bakau
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1994 – 1995 started a silk screen printing studio. During
this period he already participated in various exhibitions
in the Gambia and Senegal
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1996 Journey to Europe and exhibition in England
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1996 - 2000 he studied at the art academy in Kampen,
Netherlands.
From 1998 on exhibitions in Netherlands and Sweden
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2001 moved back to the Gambia
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2001 - 2003 art and techniques introducing show for children
in the Gambian TV and Art teacher at "French International
School" in the Gambia
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2003 gave lectures on artistic traditions at the
University
of the Gambia
2003 founded the
Tunbung
Art Village
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