Warrior Within

Name: Warrior Within
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Joshua Adegboye

Mixed-media artwork of a muscular man drawn in charcoal, wearing a waist cloth and a geometric orange and grey mask, with floating patterned red-orange forms on a peach wavy-line background.

$55.00 – $125.00

A muscular figure drawn in charcoal wears a Benin-inspired mask rendered in bright digital shapes. St. Clvtch made it as a homage to his Edo/Benin roots and the strength he draws from them.

Warrior within is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.

How it works →

Everyone has a version of themselves they call on when things get hard. Joshua Adegboye’s comes from his ancestors. He gives it a Benin-inspired mask, “a symbol of ancestral connection, identity, and the warrior spirit within me,” worn over a body worked in heavy charcoal until it looks carved, fists closed. The mask is his Edo roots, the charcoal the man they made: the strength carried from where we come from into who we become. The pairing is deliberate: organic charcoal meeting bold digital forms, the way, he says, his heritage meets his contemporary creative identity.

The culture · Edo, southern Nigeria. The Edo people founded the Kingdom of Benin, whose Oba still reigns in Benin City. Its guild artists made the famed Benin Bronzes, recording court history in brass and ivory.

Motifs in this work

Benin-inspired mask: ancestral connection and the warrior spirit within

Charcoal meeting digital: heritage meeting a contemporary creative identity

Clenched fists: strength and resilience carried from one's roots

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 60 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Year: 2022
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	9 × 12 in	7½ × 10½ in	$55	+$65	20
M	18 × 24 in	15½ × 22 in	$85	+$119	20
L	24 × 32 in	21¼ × 30 in	$125	+$179	20

The artist

Joshua Adegboye

Edo / Benin · Lagos, Nigeria · 2 works on Raknida

Joshua Adegboye, who works as St. Clvtch, was born in Lagos in 1999 and is largely self-taught. He learned to draw by watching his elder brothers and studied Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Lagos. He committed fully to his art in 2018. His practice moves between charcoal, acrylic, graphite, ink, digital illustration and 3D work. His pictures turn on masculinity, mental health, social identity and his Edo/Benin roots. Design training gives the work its structure; drawing gives it feeling. In his words, the pencil leads the march, and the paint blows the trumpets.

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