Mazola Wa Mwashighadi (Patrick Mwashighadi Mazola) is a Kenyan Multi-Dimensional Artist born in Taita Taveta District of Kenya into a family Bloodline of those who conducted ceremonies for rain (otherwise mistakenly referred to as Rainmakers), also as Guardians performing Shamanic interceding for the community.
Even before graduating from The Creative Arts Centre with a Diploma in Fine Art (drawing and painting) in Nairobi Kenya, he had embarked on combining collage, found objects and oil painting on canvas in a bid to map out his own path in the Art World with the fusing of the academic and intuitive approaches on one plane.
This bore fruits in his cupping up two International Awards from the Royal Overseas League During their 11th annual exhibition in 1994.
Having been awarded the Commonwealth Art and Craft Awards for The African Region for 1996/97 he studied Free form Sculpture and welding at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston Jamaica and worked closely with Rafiki Kariuki, a Jamaican mixed media and Photography Artist.
His collage and found objects on canvas migrated into his sculptures, opening more opportunities for experimentation.
Today the use of discarded objects into his welded and mixed media sculptures have become synonymous with his quest of reconnecting and re-imagining the traditional practices of his ancestors which were slowly but surely eroded by the introduction of foreign religions/faiths. This becomes more vivid in his Sculptural Installations and Performances.
Through all these experiments he has become more of a Socio-Cultural Activist.