Rocca Holly-Nambi

Rocca Holly-Nambi (they/them) is the Director of b-side, a socially engaged arts organisation and festival based on the Isle of Portland. 

Prior to this, Holly-Nambi was the British Council’s Head of Arts East Africa, and subsequently Director of Arts Sub-Saharan Africa. Holly-Nambi co-founded 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, a centre for contemporary art in Kampala, Uganda; and KLA ART, Kampala’s biennial public art festival. They have delivered artistic and curatorial projects for the Edinburgh International Art Festival, Glasgow International Festival, and the Mela Festival of World Music and Dance. 

Holly-Nambi received an MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art and is completing a practice-based PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, on Queer Abstraction in Kenya and Uganda.

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