Insights
Along the dusty border between Ghana and Nigeria, weavers in towns such as Badagry, Seme, and Idiroko have spent generations turning locally grown cotton and…
Art collections become more valuable when people can find, study and understand them. OYASAF’s digital cataloging project is helping bring Nigerian and African…
Smoke-drying is an old preservation method that turns a vulnerable animal hide into a more stable material for leatherwork. Before modern tanning agents,…
Watercolour landscapes from Nigeria’s 1980s offer a quiet record of a country in transition. Across studies of lagoons, forest margins, dusty roads and…
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,…