Dominick Maia Tanner is British born and educated, and have been living and working in Angola for almost 12 years now. He is gallerist and curator at ´ELA-Espaço Luanda Arte´, an innovative art space for angolan contemporary art in Luanda, Angola, and Director for ´Angola AIR´ – Angola´s first official artist-in-residence programme for non-angolans.