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Summary
Village Market in Nairobi may have had a premonition when they called artists to present their works over this past weekend during an event they called ‘Art in the Open.’
Artists from the Kenya Visual Artists Association, Kenyatta University and Mukuru Art Collective, a few representing private businesses, and others solo, filled the space with their works.
They brought everything from colourful handbags, brass and leather bracelets, and original Kenyan comics to stickers, children’s books and toys, a multitude of paintings and few sculptures.
Friday April 09 2021
By MARGARETTA WA GACHERU
Summary
Village Market in Nairobi may have had a premonition when they called artists to present their works over this past weekend during an event they called ‘Art in the Open.’
Anne Mwiti is an accomplished artist living in Nairobi, Kenya and lecturing at the Department of Fine Art and Design, Kenyatta University.
Anne s artworks are creations influenced by the contemporary world of magazine pop culture, the African society she has grown in and renown artists such as Andy Warhol, Henri Mattisse, El Anastsui, Chris Ofili, Mark Rothko to name a few and psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. She started drawing at the age of five having scribbled a female figure like an Egyptian princess. Since then she has followed her dream to become an internationally recognized artists from Africa and emerged as the winner in the World Citizen Artist competition 2014 to be awarded the WCA award 2014 in London with the artwork, A Stitch in Time that was exhibited for three months at the National Museums of Kenya, from 26th July-26th September 2015.