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MCLAUDY MUNANZWA

TITLES AND TEXT

1. Cultural Embrace
A tender encounter between traditions and modernity. Cultural Embrace celebrates the warmth of shared heritage where gestures, patterns, and colours become languages of belonging. It is a reminder that identity is not possessed; it is lived and embraced.

2. The Market Within
Beyond the stalls and barter of daily life, there exists an inner marketplace where memories, hopes, and emotions trade quietly. The Market Within explores that unseen economy of the soul, where what we give and receive shapes who we become.

3. Ethereal Roots
Invisible yet eternal, our roots extend beyond soil into dreams, ancestors, and breath. Ethereal Roots honours the unseen threads that hold us upright even when storms whisper of forgetting.

4. Carrying the Unseen
We each carry stories that never find a voice. Carrying the Unseen is a visual meditation on invisible burdens love unspoken, grief disguised, and resilience worn like quiet armour.

5. Echoes of Soul
Every experience leaves a trace, an echo reverberating through our being. Echoes of Soul captures those resonances the pulse of laughter, pain, and forgiveness that continues to sound within long after the moment fades.

6. Earthen Embrace
Clay remembers touch. In Earthen Embrace, the soil and the spirit entwine where human hands find communion with earth's memory, shaping both vessel and self.

7. Whispers of Tomorrow
The future speaks softly, through the rustle of leaves and the shimmer of dawn. Whispers of Tomorrow listens to those faint voices of hope, of renewal, of what might yet become.

8. Child of the Sun
Born of warmth and light, Child of the Sun radiates vitality and innocence. It honors the inner child fearless, curious, and endlessly luminous in a world often shadowed by doubt.

9. Lean On
An ode to interdependence. Lean On portrays strength not as solitude, but as shared gravity the beauty of holding and being held in moments of weakness and grace.

10. Paths of Morning
Each sunrise writes a new path upon the horizon. Paths of Morning reflects on beginnings ,those fragile, hopeful crossings between darkness and light, uncertainty and becoming.

11. Roots and Round
A circular meditation on growth and return. Roots and Round reminds us that life moves not in lines, but in loops, each ending a beginning, each root a rhythm of rebirth.

12. Nkope ya UMOYO (Mirror of Life)
A sacred reflection. Nkope ya UMOYO invites us to look into the living mirror, to see not just ourselves, but the collective breath of existence, layered with stories of struggle, faith, and becoming.

13. Whispers of Prayer
Between silence and sound lies prayer , that quiet vibration of longing and gratitude. Whispers of Prayer captures the invisible dialogue between human fragility and divine listening.

14. Crossing Paths
Every encounter is an intersection of destinies. Crossing Paths contemplates the brief yet powerful crossings that shape our journeys , strangers who become mirrors, moments that become meanings.

15. Circles of Joy
Joy, too, is cyclical , it leaves, returns, and transforms. Circles of Joy celebrates the rhythm of happiness that spins through community, play, and presence.

16. Waters of Return
Like rivers finding their way home, Waters of Return flows through themes of forgiveness, belonging, and continuity. It reflects the spiritual current that calls us back to origin, to peace, to self.

17. Echoes of Care
Care lingers beyond touch. Echoes of Care is a quiet tribute to those acts of tenderness that ripple through generations gestures that mend what time cannot heal.

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Mclaudy Muyuni Munanzwa is the 2023 Stars of the Albion Grand Prix Award winner in Painting & photograph category.

Experience
  • Visual art and theatre teacher, Hope and Faith Christian School, 2023

  • Film Set Designer for  TV series titled CHOKOLO, Produced by Cyber Creation in collaboration with Zambezi Magic, 2022

  • Book illustrator, World Vision in partnership with Ministry of Education, 2022

  • Community Art teacher, volunteer, Childfund Zambia, 2015-2022

  • Theatre Arts Director, Orange Babies Organisation, 2022

  • Theatre Arts Director, Hope and Faith Christian School, 2022

  • Theatre Arts Director, Zambezi Arts Education Centre, 2021-2022

  • Theatre Arts Director, Hektomeron Project, Romania, 2021

  • Film Set Designer for a film titled MARIA CHRISTU, Real Image Media, 2020

  • Facebook management volunteer, Maternal Health Action, 2021-2022

  • Book illustrator, USAID Let’s Read Project, 2020

  • Arts and Theatre Director, Ngombe PTA School, 2017-2019

  • Designer, Bichisa Woodwork, 2014-2015

Other Art Experience

  • Mclaudy has trained several theatre groups and individual artist in different workshops

  • Visual Art facilitator, Art residency program supported by Bridge of Hope Foundation and UNESCO at MOKOBEKO Prison

  • Visual Art facilitator at African Arts international conference held in Kampala ,Uganda at St Lawrence University where he was supported by Childfund Zambia and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, 2021

  • Guest speaker, Theatre and the Digital Space: online conference 2021, Host professor Mary, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda

  • Facilitator, online content distribution; workshop  for community theatre groups by Plan International & USAID, beneficiaries from 10 districts

  • Facilitator, Art & Design: workshop  with children by Assitej Zambia, 2017, 2018, 2019

  • Facilitator, Art & Design: workshop by Lyco, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2019, 2020

Awards and Acknowledgements

  • Awarded best theme Art interpreter at a health school festival 2013

  • Awarded best actor at the schools national theatre festival 2014

  • Awarded best Drama director for primary school at the schools national festivals 2019

  • Acknowledged as a great emerging theatre director || for being part of the longest play in history “The Hekto Meron “theatre production  directed by 100 directors from 100 countries||the play was adopted by UNESCO

  • Awarded a third prize at the theatre exposed contest held in Ukraine ||2022

  • Awarded the GRAND PRIX AWARD at the Starts of the Albion held in London, UK, 2023

Previous Art Exhibitions

  • Cump Bank (2016), Lions Club Meeting, supported by Childfund Zambia Chongwe Federation

  • Ethiopia ,(2017)

  • Zambian and Design Show 2017-2019

  • Cairo, Egypt (2018) – Nepad Peace Conference

  • Beijing ,China (2019)

  • USA, (2019)

  • Harare, Zimbabwe (2019) Southern African Arts Festival, Harare

  • Zimbabwe (2020) – Let Them Trust Arts Festival

  • Kampala, Uganda (2021) International African Arts Conference supported by Childfund Zambia and the Ministry of Tourism and Arts

  • Ukraine (online exhibition) 2022 – Theatre Exposed Contest

  • Brazil (online exhibition) 2022 - Stop Ecocide, Start Good Living, a climate change based project

Upcoming art exhibition For 2023

  • Painting in hospital Art Expo: Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda

  • Along the rail a Zambia Tanzania Art Research and Exhibition

 

The Art Residency Program at Mukobeko Maximum Prison, working with female inmate,
supported by Bridge of Hope Foundation, UNESCO & National Arts Council

 

 

 

The community visual Art workshop supported by Assitej Zambia and Assitej Cuba

 

Training craft men and women from Pakati Market (Sunday market),
a workshop supported by the Ministry of Ttourism and Culture

 

Training community theatre groups from Lusaka, Kasama, Livingstone, Kitwe, Mfurira and Chingola,
a 10 days workshop: supported by Plan International, SAID, ZCHP and ZAPOTA

 

The Art Exhibition and Art Conference at St Lawrence University, Kampala, Uganda / Micheal Angelo.
Art Academy Entebe, Uganda, supported by Childfund Zambia and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture 2021

 

 

During a visual art workshop and exhibition at
Kamuzu Banda Sports Complex, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020

 

Theatre and Arts Conference,
Makerere University, 2022

 

Community Art engagement with volunteers from
Orange Babies Organisation, Lusaka, 2022

 

ITAC; International Teaching Artist Collaborative meeting

 

Community Art with the children of Chongwe District supported by Childfund Zambia

 

 

Interacting with the Minister of Tourism and Arts
at the Art Business Forum organised
by National Arts Council

Community Art with the Youths

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