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Grace Ndiritu

By: Sara Raza

Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.

Grace Ndiritu is a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity. Born in 1976 in Birmingham, Ndiritu studied textile art at Winchester School of Art and completed a postgraduate residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her practice has largely been motivated by major global issues concerning the inequality and degrading of human beings due to war and poverty. Such issues have formed the backdrop for her practice, which has developed into a powerfully thoughtful and visually invigorating body of work presented via video performances, which are infused with landscape, music, fabric and passion. Having studied fashion and textiles prior to art, Ndiritu’s thought processes are still rooted in the practice of producing mood boards, where a collage of ideas are presented within a set frame. Since attending a postgraduate residency at De Ateliers she has transferred this process of creative thinking to the frame of the video screen, where her mood is exemplified in an animated fashion. However, this has not resulted in the artist producing a...

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