Director and Curator of One Off Gallery

Kenyan born, with grand parents arriving in the country in 1925, Carol attained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the American College in London in 1990. Following a short stint working in Nairobi for commercial interior designers McNaughton West Design, she opened One Off Gallery in 1994. 

In 2000 she co-founded RaMoMA (Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art) as its first Director, suspending the operations of One Off.

Initially a Ford Foundation funded project, RaMoMA became the leader in its field in East Africa.  At the height of its activities it hosted five new exhibitions each month; published Msanii, a quarterly art magazine; had a dedicated children's wing with three full time teaching staff; had fourteen artists teaching art to children in Kenya’s leading referral hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital; held regular artists workshops and established an arts and crafts gift shop.

With her resignation from RaMoMA in 2009, One Off was born again.

In her twenty nine years in the business of Kenyan Art she has:

Curated more than 400 exhibitions 

Organized an annual art fair featuring never less than 110 painters and sculptors

Curated in 2004 with Judy Ogana, five exhibitions in New York (Brooklyn Public Library; Five Myles Gallery; Long Island University; Welancora Gallery and Kentler International Drawing Space)

February 2014 saw the first major exhibition of Kenya art supplied by One Off to the Gallery of African Art in Cork Street, London.

With the training of a commercial interior designer and her 29 years in the selling of the art of the region, Carol is uniquely placed to cater to the interests of corporate or private buyers for both investment and pleasure.