Mwamba Chikwemba is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, whose work draws on portraiture and figurative traditions. Influenced by artists such as Geoffrey Phiri, Agness Buya Yombwe, Frida Kahlo, Jenny Saville, and Wycliffe Mundopa, she transitioned from a background in public administration to train under the Visual Arts Council of Zambia. Mwamba has created public murals in Lusaka, Livingstone, Kampala, Antananarivo, and Johannesburg. She has completed residencies at Modzi Arts, Nafasi Art Space, and Greatmore Studios, and received Awards from the PUSH Women as well as Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg for printmaking and lithography.

Mwamba’s new and unseen body of work is honouring and celebrating her personal journey into motherhood and drawing closer into her memory of child birthing. The act of ‘being in labour’ was conceptualised around 2022, when she was pregnant with her first child, She has been working on this series of works starting from drawings, to print making and large scale paintings. She is touching on art history elements, with her particular interest in distorting her own image of self with strokes of tortured vis ultimate happiness. This work is of her lived experiences of being pregnant and giving birth within the labour ward in with Lusaka. The themes revolves around motherhood, labour experience and birth, exploring the emotional and physical transition of being a mother. She would like to invite the viewers to witness the raw beauty of creation, transcending the boundaries of time and social expectations.