Kampi ya Lucki - Kakamega Forest Residency

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Kampi ya Lucki sits against a granite outcrop on the edge of the Kakamega Rainforest, one of the last fragments of the ancient forest that once stretched across East Africa, with the Nandi Hills escarpment rising on the other side. It began as a conservation project: land left to regenerate, beekeeping in its wilder corners, indigenous trees given room to return. Hosting artists grew out of that same instinct, a belief that creative work and the land it happens on shouldn't be separate things. We invite you to spend a month here, letting that connection shape your work. You'll sleep in one of the new lodges, designed and built by Lucki himself from local materials, with hot water and electricity, and work in a separate studio cabin set apart, closer to the forest. Days move at the forest's pace: early light, long open hours, afternoon tropical rain, walks into the rainforest reserve, meeting local communities, evenings by the rock. This residency is for artists who want to disconnect from routine in the rural landscapes of Western Kenya and reconnect, through landscape, material, and the local community, to the forest and what it can bring to their practice.