Released May 28, 2022
Paper Planes:
Artist: AYANFEOLUWA OLAYEMI OLARINDE
Bio: Ayanfe Olarinde is a self-trained visual artist currently employing scribbling techniques as well as photography in creating intricately detailed and multi-layered images. In her work, Olarinde explores and drives conversation around self image, identity formation, social reality, collective history and mental health while probing popular culture and the inefficiencies of the government in contemporary society. Olarinde’s engagement with the scribbling technique serves as a way to interrogate emotion while also exploring fluidity in form. In 2020, Olarinde was listed amongst the 100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria. Her internationally recognised series “Dem Bobo”, has been featured in several local and international publications including Reuters News, CNN, NowThisNews, Vogue, Channels, Konbini, MSN, Premium Times,, NTA, and RADR Africa
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Wishing on A Star
Artist: ELIZABETH CHIOMA EKPETORSON
Bio: Elizabeth Chioma Ekpetorson is a Nigerian born cubist and impressionist artist trained at the Universal Studios of Art, Iganmu Lagos. Using human forms and expressions her works are mostly rendered in charcoal and acrylic, with themes on contemporary human issues. Through her artwork, she seeks to draw attention on the notion of self-acceptance: embracing one’s self unconditionally, without fear or exception.
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Energy
Artist: LAJU SHOLOLA
Bio: Laju Sholola is known for her signature unfinished lines and sparing tea - soaked brushstrokes with ink washes presented on canvas / paper. She uses this technique to create a range of fluid, transparent brown tones on the backgrounds and skins of her subjects to describe the vulnerabilities and essence of humans. Engaging with themes of visibility, vulnerability, and strength, Laju creates paintings that often focus on the intimate expressions and moods of women to capture the uncertainties and hope in their journey of self-discovery.
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Casanova
Artist: ABBA T. MAKAMA
Bio: Abba T. Makama is an award winning filmmaker and visual artist from Nigeria. His debut film "Green White Green" had its 2016 world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, since then it has screened at over 20 international film festivals including Stockholm international Film Festival, Berlin Critics Week, Carthage Film Festival. The film was distributed on Netflix worldwide and Canal Plus. His sophomore The Lost Okoroshi also premiered at TIFF 2019 and subsequently screened at BFI London and Berlin Critics Week 2020. The Lost Okoroshi is currently streaming on Netflix.
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Adatola
Artist: UTHMAN WAHAAB
Bio: Wahaab is an artist who possesses an overarching interest in social phenomenon and eschews a consistent use of medium or even singular aesthetic style. Utilising the disciplines of drawing, painting, graphic design, film, photography, sculpture and installation, Wahaab’s foremost concern is developing a new visual language that consciously rejects traditional forms of depiction in order to document ongoing history and unfolding reality. Wahaab’s current work focuses on issues of identity, beauty, sexuality, and cultural influences that inform technological change and social shifts in Africa.The artist’s work provides a critical lens on social phenomenon not only within Africa, but more significantly looks at the ways that globalism and post-colonialism complicate the African socials-cape.
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Joy
Artist: LEMI GHARIOKWU
Bio: Lemi, is a self taught Nigerian Visual Artist, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Songwriter. He is most renowned for many of his original cover art for Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. His work involves a variety of styles, often using vibrant colours and individuated typefaces of his own design. This serves a consciously integrated meta-textual function. One would say his art is rebellion, comical, political, even erotic but most of all he is a genius in pictorial narration. Observer Music Magazine (Guardian, UK) called him “King of Covers” in 2004. He is on Phaidon Press' list of 100 emerging and influential graphic designers in the world. His painting ‘Anoda Sistem’, created in 2002, is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA). He holds a dual lifetime membership of the museum. Lemi is also a member of Artists Rights Society, New York. He is surely one of Africa's best-kept secrets. In June 2010 he successfully branded FELA-BUS, a marketing mural-on-wheels for the producers of the hit Broadway musical “FELA!” in New York. He also designed the poster for “FINDING FELA”, a documentary which was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2014. Ghariokwu is very contemporary and constantly doing avant-garde works. He exhibits and holds workshops around the globe with the aim of leaving a lasting legacy in his own art style branded - ‘Afro Art Beat’!
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