Lakwena Maciver

Lakwena Maciver was born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father. She studied graphic design at the London College of Communications (UK), graduating in 2009. She had her first exhibition in London that same year. London continues to be her home city. Her kaleidoscopic work is informed by the use of decoration as a means of communication. As a form of expression within a political world, Lakwena explores how the use of adornment in worship and mythmaking translates into contemporary popular culture. Central to her practice are words, used as both images and anchors of meaning, borrowing from the techniques and conventions of traditional sign-writing and contemporary graphic design. With an aesthetic that draws upon her formative years in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and her native London she creates bold messages of hope in urban settings with bright murals that can be found on walls from Vienna to New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami to Borås, Sweden with one of the finest collections of world-class murals on the planet. https://www.lakwena.com