Category: Drawn art
POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawn art, Painting
Revolving Art Incubator’s “Four Women” Reconsiders Female Gender Norms
By Adefoyeke Ajao The Revolving Art Incubator’s recently-opened exhibition, ‘Four Women’, is a reflection on the situation of females within contemporary societies. Its dominant theme is that those who were once regarded as the weaker sex are beginning to hold their own – albeit with challenges. According to the curator Jumoke Sanwo, “women […]
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Remembering Duro Ladipo, Travelling Theatre’s Leading Man
By Adefoyeke Ajao It is impossible to speak about the history of theatre – or film – in Nigeria without mentioning Duro Ladipo, who until his death 40 years ago on 11th of March 1978, was an astute theatre manager and industry pioneer. An omission of the celebrated actor, composer, playwright and theatre director would […]
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Artist of the Week – Tonia Nneji
By Adefoyeke Ajao Since graduating with a degree in Creative Arts from the University of Lagos, Tonia Nneji has worked as a full-time studio artist and has earned an enviable reputation as a painter. Most recently, in 2017, she won the Emerging Artist Award of the Society of Nigerian Artists’ Lagos chapter. Nneji has a […]
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Artist of the Week – Abisola Gbadamosi
By Adefoyeke Ajao Abisola Gbadamosi’s art is a sight for sore eyes: a light-hearted blend of fluttering butterflies, blooming flowers, nymph-like figures and vibrant colours that seem more in tune with narratives of love, hope and restoration than with their underlying themes of anguish, bereavement and outrage. Abisola Gbadamosi Since graduating from university […]
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Artist of the Week – Ayobola Kekere-Ekun
By Adefoyeke Ajao Ayobola Kekere-Ekun is a mixed media artist who gives the traditional craft of quilling a contemporary twist. Her intricate designs are largely handcrafted and involve a painstaking technique that creatively arrays fabric, ribbons, strips of paper and other media into ornate works of art. Irrespective of her expertise at quilling, Kekere-Ekun is equally […]
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Artist of the Week – Jacqueline Suowari
By Adefoyeke Ajao When most people think about art, they think of all things colourful, but Jacqueline Suowari’s pen ink and acrylic portraits confute the notion that monochrome figures can be less captivating than their colourful counterparts. Born in 1990, Suowari is a graduate of University of Port Harcourt, where she majored in painting. However, […]
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Artist of the Week: Godwin Akpan
By Tobijulo Onifade About 3 weeks ago, I was on the Africandigitalartist website when I came across an art piece on their Instagram feed. This piece was a digital illustration of a temple/mountain scene of some sort using famous Nigerian relics. It was beautiful but what I remember most was the way it made me […]
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Painting with Scissors
By Tobijulo Onifade Draughtsman Printmaker and Sculptor, Henri Matisse was born the 31st of December 1869 in Northern France. He was originally trained as a lawyer but fell in love with Art in 1889 while recuperating from appendicitis. Matisse was known for his use of colour and was a founding member of Fauvism (les fauves, […]
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Mosaic Using Watercolour
By Tobijulo Onifade A mosaic is a decorative art form which uses small pieces of materials placed together to create a unified whole. The apple dictionary also defines mosaic as a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, and so much more. Mosaics have been in existence since the […]
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