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MAZOLA WA MWASHIGHADI Kenyan artist – available through Go Global Art
Left: The Enthronement of the Matriarch, Oil paint and Chinese marker on canvas, £1,150 Right: Recollection of the Departed (2013), Oil paint and Chinese marker on canvas, £900
Patrick Mazola, known as Mazola Wa Mwashighadi, was born in Taita-Taveta District in Kenya in 1964. After training as a teacher at Asumbi Teachers’ Training College from 1985-87 and teaching from 1987 to 1990, he attended the Creative Art Centre in Nairobi, Kenya from 1991 to 1994, attaining a Diploma in Fine Art. After being awarded the Commonwealth Art and Craft Fellowship Award 1996/97 for the Africa region by the Commonwealth Foundation, he attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (1997/1998) in Kingston, Jamaica – majoring in free-form sculpture during his fellowship period. Mazola now lives and works in his adopted home, Kingston, as a multi-disciplinary artist. “I see that the past and the future are within the present. The so-called traditional values and philosophies which are now being discarded should actually be the basis of what we call the new. Being an artist born and raised in Taita-Taveta in Kenya, I belong to a particular tribe with its own belief systems and values. My great-grandfather was a guardian of the community and was also involved in rituals, such as sacrificing for rain. I lived and worked in Nairobi before settling in Jamaica and I try to fuse all these worlds, because that is my way of being true to self. Some of my work is ritualistic representation, which many would call contemporary African Art – comprising many borrowed elements from all over the world.” Mazola Mazola is one of several artists and galleries around the globe choosing to exhibit and sell works through Go Global Art, an art marketing organisation based in London but representing artists worldwide. www.goglobalart.com
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SOLO SHOWS 2015 2014 2010 2009 2007/08 2004
2000 1999 1998 1997
Form & Function, Redbones Blues CafÊ, Kingston, Jamaica Recent Works, The Studio, Montego Bay, Jamaica Vision 30/50, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica Woman of all Seasons (In honour of my mother’s transition), Portmore, Jamaica Spiritual Romance, Soft Box Studios Gallery, St Clair, Trinidad & Tobago Solo Exhibition, Gallery of Caribbean Art, Barbados Solo Exhibition, Gallery Pegasus, Kingston, Jamaica State of Mind, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica Mzango, (Sculpture), Gallery Pegasus, Kingston, Jamaica Solo Exhibition, Harmony Hall, Antigua Chia, (Sculpture & Paintings), Gallery of Caribbean Art, Barbados Destinations, Gallery Pegasus, Kingston, Jamaica Celebration of Fused Memories, The Orange Circle Studio, Nairobi, Kenya Memories Do Linger, French Culture Centre, Nairobi, Kenya Sacrifice for Rain, Gallery Pegasus, Kingston, Jamaica One Man Show, Nairobi, Kenya
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 2002 2001 1999 1997/98 1998 1994/95 1994
Art of Sculpture, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica Two to the Power of Three, Simon Bolivar Auditorium, Trinidad & Tobago 8 Kenyan Artists, Milan and Rome, Italy 9th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh Scotland Africa Travelling Exhibition, Edinburgh, London Young Generation, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica Royal Overseas League, 11/12 Annual Exhibitions, London, England Kenya Arts Festival, National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
COMMISSIONS Totem of Heritage, University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica Book Illustration, Jacaranda Designs, Nairobi, Kenya (Fumo Liyongo)
MEDIA ENQUIRIES For further information, interviews or images please contact Tani Burns: T: 0207 377 5665 M: 07888 731 419 E: tani@goglobalart.com W: www.goglobalart.com
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