In the exhibition, one notices a lot of techniques at play, but for a large part, it is abstract art and semi realism that take centre stage in Scopt’s portraits.
By
Michael Muyoma
Contributor
Walking through the National Museum, where Harrison Karanja’s exhibition All of Us at Once unfolds, it is hard not to appreciate the sheer range and diversity from a gifted artist who is not afraid of being different.
Harrison, better known as Scopt, took his first steps in art in 2006, encouraged by a friend while he was still a college student taking an accounting course.
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