Insights
Across Yoruba history, cloth, beads and stitched ornament have carried authority as visibly as crowns or staffs. In the Oyo Empire, royal dress transformed the…
In Lagos, Abuja, and the ancient city of Benin, a quiet revolution is unfolding on film sets where painters, sculptors, and prop makers share workshop space…
Masquerade festivals in Nigeria stretch back centuries and remain some of the most vivid theatres of communal creativity on the African continent. Draped in…
Large canvas paintings present unique logistical challenges for collectors, curators, and artists. Moving an oversized work from a Melbourne studio to a Sydney…
Across Northern Nigeria, the horse is far more than a carefully rendered animal. It can signify authority, ancestry, mobility, military strength, religious…
A quiet recalibration is underway in Nigerian studios, art schools and informal collectives. Painters who once queued for gallery representation in Lagos,…
Deep in southwestern Nigeria, a patch of forest has quietly become one of the twentieth century's most remarkable artistic achievements. The Sacred Grove in…
The Oshogbo School emerged in the early 1960s in Osogbo, a city in south-western Nigeria, when a loose circle of self-taught artists began gathering around the…
Behind every thoughtfully arranged gallery space lies months, sometimes years, of meticulous curatorial labour. The Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art…
When the Nigerian painter and sculptor Ben Enwonwu passed away in 1994, obituaries in London, Lagos, and New York described him as the man who gave modern…