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Born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father, Lakwena Maciver studied graphic design at the London College of Communications, graduating in 2009. She had her first exhibition in London that same year. London continues to be her home city, yet her aesthetic also draws upon formative years in Addis Ababa and Nairobi as she creates bold messages of hope in urban settings. She has become known for works in the public realm internationally; polychromatic murals found on walls from Vienna to Las Vegas, London to Los Angeles, Miami to New York, Arkansas to Borås, Sweden.
Her paintings decolonise by subverting myths found in contemporary popular culture – JE