A FORMER Newport university student and artist who ran a bar in London graced by the likes of Pete Doherty and Kate Nash has headed to Africa to catch a glimpse of life on the continent through a special art project.
Tracey Moberly, who graduated with first class honours at Newport University in the 1980s, is to give 12 people in Uganda mobile phones to capture their lives in pictures and video in a ‘mobilography’.
Ms Moberly, co-owned the Foundry in Shoreditch, London, with her husband Jonathan in London from 1999 until it closed in 2010.
In its time the bar had poetry nights hosted by former Libertines frontman Pete Doherty and was also where Kate Nash was spotted.
The project is the latest of its type organised by Ms Moberly, who grew up in Gilfach near Bargoed, and left for her 17-day trip to the country on Sunday.
In December 2009 she encouraged residents of the slums of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince to document their lives with camera phones.
“I don’t have a clue at all about what I am going to capture – it’s a detailed demographic project of everyday life,” she said.
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