Sarah Muwanga

A practice rooted in intimacy

Emerging British-Ugandan Artist

Sarah Muwanga is a British-Ugandan painter whose work explores the interior lives of Black women — their states of rest, resistance, longing and joy. Working in oil on canvas, she builds layered compositions that bring together the figurative and the decorative, the personal and the political.

Her paintings are quiet and watchful. Figures inhabit domestic spaces — beside lamps, among plants, beneath flowering skies — yet there is always a current running beneath the surface. The women in Muwanga’s work are not objects of observation; they are subjects with their own inward attention, their own presence in a room.

Muwanga studied in London, where she continues to work. Her practice has attracted significant collector attention, and Tethered — Where the Line Holds marks her first solo exhibition at CasildART in Connaught Village, W2.