Ndidi Emefiele’s work is fast becoming the popular screen saver on both phones and laptops but personally, i can’t seem to get enough of her. Ndidi’s characters are delicate, complex,playful, fierce and pop. I also think its time she started an eye wear range. The glasses which are a constant fixture in her work, she […]
“Coming Home”, is Victor Ekpuk’s first solo exhibition in Nigeria in over a decade. This exhibition features Ekpuk’s new project that is inspired by his experiences in Nigeria during a four months stay as an Artist in Residence with Arthouse Foundation in Lagos in 2015. In a departure from his usual medium, the works […]
Internationally acclaimed. Collected by the Smithsonian Institution. Showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom. Three decades of creating envelope-pushing, engaging work. A grand return to the oil / acrylic medium. Tayo Tekovi Quaye. This is how we’re ending our year. Showing at the gallery this December, OPEN from today and CLOSING our […]
Monochrome: Of Works and Life in Black and White, is an exhibition of various artistic expressions through different media that seeks to familiarize the viewer with works produced by three progressive, contemporary artists, Juliet Ezenwa, Nwachukwu Ike, and Logo Oluwamuyiwa Adeyemi. These works rendered in black, white, and the occasional tons of grey, propels […]
By Tajudeen Sowole Confinement of art appreciation within the elitist and conservative old space has been the ‘strength’ of art, despite efforts of different cultures to break the exclusivity. For example, Nigeria has not been short of several efforts at promoting art appreciation at the grassroots, which include competitive levels of value. However, in […]
So just over a month ago Adenrele Sonariwo of Rele gallery asked if i would be interested in co-curating an exhibition on nudes along with writer Ayodeji Rotinwa. As you can imagine, i leaped with joy saying YES! The body is something that has always been of great importance to me. From a personal […]