Through her “All Petals Float” Art Exhibition, multidisciplinary Ugandan artist, singer-songwriter, and visual artist Ceee (born Celine Kiberu) is intersecting creativity and wellness. This she has honed over the years through her independent music, non-clinical art therapy sessions, and now with a sprinkle of visual art, she’s nurtured a practice that encourages people to explore their inner world with curiosity, grace, and intention.
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Backed by her Master’s Degree in Public Health, Ceee yesterday held an art exhibition where she married her love of intuitive abstract art, music, and non-clinical art therapy. In perfect symphony, all these elements came together as tools for expression and emotional restoration at the event held at the Summit Residences Gallery (Naguru).
On display were 22 original, hand-made tactile abstract pieces. The immersive “All Petals Float” Art Exhibition sought to create an intentional space for reflection, creative expression, and emotional exploration—blending unique art with the restorative power of sound and story. Beyond being a visual art showcase, the exhibition additionally served as a portal into layered emotional experiences, using a multisensory approach that reflected both the fragility and strength in the human condition, hence, the symbolic title.
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Ceee’s artist statement captured the spirit of the showcase beautifully: “Like petals set free upon water, this collection drifts between wonder and possibility. Each work is a quiet unfolding, a moment suspended where stillness and movement meet… All Petals Float is not only a visual journey but a meditative one. It invites you to pause, to trace your own reflections across the surface, and to consider the gentle truth that nothing we love is ever truly lost; it simply changes form and becomes the tide.”
Day one of the two-day exhibition was officially graced by Her Majesty the Nabagereka of Buganda Kingdom, Sylvia Najjinda and her daughter Sarah Katrina Mirembe Ssangalyambogo Nachwa. On display alongside Ceee’s works were handcrafted wooden pieces by her mother, which added a tender and intimate layer to the showcase.
What I personally liked at the exhibition was the ink chart where we would imprint our fingerprints and sign against our names. It wasn’t only a cute but also intimate gesture—an act that allowed us to reconnect with art in our own way as attendees of the exhibition.
This exhibition was designed as, and is to serve as, a launchpad for a much larger project; one that will see Ceee host the “All Petals Float” Art Exhibition annually under different themes. It is also meant to pave the way for her to mentor young artists to create original works of emotional and cultural significance.