David ‘Daut’ Makala (b.1983 Lusaka) is a Zambian self-taught artist and founder of Studio225, a collaborative self-funded studio in Chilenje, Lusaka. Makala’s artworks reflect his ongoing exploration of the way Zambians relate to their traditional heritage of Zambia, how they build identity with or without it and use it in navigating life. As much as there has been deliberate erasing of this traditional heritage, some of it has also disappeared naturally with time. David looks at the processes of this search of identity and specifically how people relate to memories of a lost past while using them to construct (disappearance) and reconstruct (reappearance) new ones. David took up art professionally in 2006 and is today considered as a renowned artist in Zambia and beyond. Mentored by Stary Mwaba, David has built his own path in the field of visual art as a multimedia artist. He his work has travelled to Asiko’ in Mozambique (2015), FNB Johannesburg Art Fair (2019) Gate44, Milan (2019), Congo Biennale (2022), and most recently worked in El Salvador with Custom Made Stories in a public art intervention.