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In an ongoing solo exhibition in an Abuja-based gallery, the leading female ballpoint pen artist Jacqueline Suowari extends her exploration of the subtleties of the human body language while examining the conflict between the public persona and the masked inner self. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports …
After last year’s suspension of its 14th edition last due to the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, Life in My City Art Festival resumes this year as an online competition. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports ARTICLES Not even the unforeseen obtrusion of the last year’s COVID-19 scare can deny the Life in My City Art Festival – more …
A solo exhibition at The Wheatbaker in Ikoyi, Lagos, heralds Ada Udechukwu’s homecoming to the local art scene, where she began her creative journey. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports ARTICLES Since Ada Udechukwu dropped off the contemporary Nigerian art scene’s radar decades ago, her name has continued to lurk somewhere in the inner recesses of the industry’s memory. Could …
A hardcover book, which offers a well-curated visual feast of artworks owned by the Lagos-based art collector Yinka Fisher, was recently launched at a virtual event hosted by the Spanish Embassy in Abuja. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports VISUAL ARTS Isn’t it gratifying that – even in these dire times – so much enthusiasm swirls around a book on …
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Buoyed by his prodigious artistic skills, Kanyeyachukwu (more often known as Kanye) expresses himself in bright colourful spurts of illumination and earns the laurel as the poster child for the advocacy for autism, Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports ARTICLES Years of hogging the limelight should, by now, have inscribed Kanye’s name in flaming letters into the art …