For Agnes Waruguru, painting represents a place and a process through which she can explore the materiality of objects and their ability to act as indicators of identity and tellers of stories. She works predominantly with cotton, using dyeing, casting and spraying alongside brushwork. Painting processes are combined with acts of creation learned and inherited from the women in her life. She incorporates beading, sewing, crochet, embroidery and knitting into her work, intimately connecting aspects of personal identity with traditions of women’s work.
