Background
Samson Kambalu was born in Malawi, where he attended Kamuzu Academy, the so-called "Eton of Africa".
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Samson Kambalu
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He graduated from the University of Malawi"s Chancellor College, Zomba in 1999. Kambalu completed his Master of Arts in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 2003 and a Doctor of Philosophy at Chelsea College of Art and Design from 2011 – 15.
Career
Manifesting in various media, from drawing, painting, installation, video to literature and performance the work playfully employs excess, transgression, humour and wit to test the boundaries of received ideas regarding history, art, identity, religion and individual freedom. The most well known of his artworks is Holy Ball, a football plastered in pages of the Bible. Kambalu held an exhibition of 24 "Holy Balls" at Chancellor College in 2000 at which he invited the visitors to “exercise and exorcise”.
He has since shown his work internationally.
His first book, an autobiographical narrative entitled The Jive Talker or How to Get a British Passport, was published by Jonathan Cape (Random House) in July 2008, and in August 2008 by Free Press (Simon & Schuster). Kambalu lives and works in London.
