Duke Asidere was born in Lagos in 1961 and is one of Nigeria’s leading contemporary artists. Asidere’s work engages contemporary African politics. Through visual metaphors, the artist comments on the everyday human drama that surrounds him; political, social, psychological or cultural. Furthermore, he adds an element of surprise to these sketches of human drama by infusing them with irony and humour. Asidere’s broad oeuvre ranges from headless or limbless […]
Painter and photographer, Segun-Shiigo is a Nigerian born artist who explores the cartographical possibilities of landscape painting by adopting a representational approach that sometimes deliberately ignores the basic principles of perspective in art. Recently, abstraction found way into his oeuvre, suggesting the beginning of a thematic epoch in his professional career.
Onabanjo is a renowned watercolour artist, who discovered a way to take watercolours and turn them into expressive forms. His inspiration to create art comes from his adventurous spirit and desire to express. With his artworks, he challenges the viewer by incorporating both naturalistic and abstract approaches in their creation
Onuoha is a very gifted artist with a unique outlook and painting style derived from Cubism and makes use of roller brush with oil or acrylic on canvas. In addition, Onuoha is able to convey his thoughts simply and objectively.Onuoha has previously shown his works in group exhibitions such as the World Bank Art Exhibition, New York; Minaj Talent, Obosi, Talent […]
J.O Aransiola is a Nigerian based artist who was born with a passion for art, and as a youth his skills generated the opportunity for him to study under the tutelage of the contemporary artist Abiodun Olaku. Aransiola uses acrylic, and multimedia to tell his stories in the style of an abstract impressionism. The inspiration for his art comes from his environment, and he strives for continuous learning and improvement […]
Luke is a Nigerian contemporary sculptor. Through his love for sculpting, he portrays his perception of the interplay of time and chance on the human experience as we live out friendship, love, dreams, hope and anxiety with bronze cast, bonded stone and glass fiber as his preferred media.
A self-taught artist, Okoh describes his style as impressionism. His unique and distinctive style is created through the use of a palette knife. “I am inspired by everything around me, nature in general. Sometimes it could be from the wave of the sea, ripples of water, colours of the sky or from body language.