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WANJIKU MWANGI
#3 on the leaderboard · 2.1%🎨Mural Painting🖼️Expressive Portraiture🌈Colour Work
“Mixed-media collage artist rebuilding Nairobi's overlooked faces from the city's own paper.”
Mixed-media collage artist in Nairobi. Wanjiku cuts, tears, and reassembles city ephemera — matatu stickers, market receipts, newspaper obituaries — into large-scale portraits of the people the city overlooks.
THE PRACTICE
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Mural Painting
Works at wall scale, painting directly onto exposed brick and concrete with loose, confident brushstrokes. The colour is the first thing you see from across the street.
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Expressive Portraiture
Faces painted past realism into emotional territory — wide-open eyes, mouths mid-shout, features exaggerated to carry feeling rather than likeness.
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Colour Work
Saturated, unapologetic palette — reds, yellows, greens, blues layered wet over wet. The colour does the arguing before the faces get a word in.
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THE PHOTO DUMP
