Search: 73 results found for "Ugandan"

Digital fashion illustration of three women in wide hats: at centre a figure in a yellow wing-panelled jacket and pleated skirt, flanked by one in black and silver and one in lavender.

Curator's Note

A butterfly's beauty is half the story; the rest is the change it took. Ekundayo dresses three women for the moment of emerging, the one at…

Yoruba

Butterflies

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of the National Theatre, Lagos, with its ribbed cap-shaped roof, a construction crane at left, a smiling yellow sun, a man walking and a white car in front.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The building every Lagosian can draw from memory, its roof shaped like a general's cap, with a working crane standing beside it. Anth Ezeok…

Yoruba

National Theatre, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Illustration of a crowned baby glowing in a green vessel, cords linking it to three pink masked figures seated around it with their backs to it, one holding a spear, before a red patterned sun and dark leaves.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

The subject is the child. Godwin Edet Munam's masked ancestors sit with their backs to a crowned infant, guarding it, praying for it and fe…

Undeclared

Descent

Yr. 2021

Godwin Edet MunamGodwin E. M.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pen-and-ink drawing of a scowling lion with a wild mane hanging in mid-air, lifted by a single balloon tied with a bow and four thin strings, on a mottled beige stained background.

STU. 59/60

Curator's Note

A single balloon, four strings, and a lion who clearly disagrees. Anth Ezeokoye turns the Igbo proverb Onye kwe, chi ya ekwe into a deadpan…

Igbo

Limitless

Yr. 2022

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Faceted portrait of an elderly Black man with white hair and beard, lips slightly parted, wearing a gold hoop earring and gold chain, his red shirt merging into a flat red background.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Dayo made his old man for the elders he grew up around, the quiet ones who have seen a lot and carry it with dignity. White beard against a…

Yoruba

Old Man Red

Yr. 2024

Dayo Gerard AkindoyeniDayo G. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Ai_mayor reduces the person to a black outline, eyes closed, and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Flowers, stripes and a purp…

Yoruba

Stainless

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Illustration on pink of a round blue mask, eyes closed, with a crown of plum tendrils beaded in black, a gold crescent nose ring, hex nut earrings and two long red combs; letter Y in corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Look at her ears: two steel hex nuts where gold should be. Yemisi wears a crown of beaded tendrils and two sharpened red combs. KeO makes h…

Yoruba

Yemisi

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos: rearing horse statues on the stand, a telecom mast, winged shapes in the sky and a seated robed figure with a staff in the foreground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Before it was a square it was a racecourse, and the horses never left. Anth Ezeokoye puts the rearing horse statues at the centre of the gr…

Yoruba

Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Abstract geometric pattern on a white ground: a rectangular grid of squares filled with circles, rings, triangles and quarter-circles in sky blue, navy, red, yellow and black.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Look long enough and the noise resolves into order: the whole field is built to read the same upside down. Anth Ezeokoye's training as an a…

Igbo

Chill Vibes

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Abstract digital artwork of a pale glowing circle crossed by a thin horizontal white line, surrounded by dark torn textures, peach shapes and streaks of rainbow colour on a gradient ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Everything here pulls toward the pale circle at the centre, and one thin white line cuts straight through it. That line, Aiyedogbon says, i…

Yoruba

Vortex

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of three musicians on purple: one in a green robe and turban with a gourd lute, one in a blue robe with a fiddle and bow, one in a red cap and black-and-gold top playing a flute.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Where ethnic sentiment is used to divide, Clement Obioha paints Nigeria's three largest peoples as one band: three instruments, three voice…

Igbo

Unity

Yr. 2018

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painted portrait of a woman whose face is made of violet, yellow, pink and blue colour blocks, wearing a green and gold headwrap with black symbols and a white dotted collar, on grey.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Àríké carries the name her family chose: meant to be spoiled on sight. Funmilayo Tejumola paints her as a young woman preparing for marriag…

Yoruba

Arike

Yr. 2022

Funmilayo Todimu TejumolaFunmilayo T. T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

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Butterflies

National Theatre, Lagos

Descent

Limitless

Old Man Red

Stainless

Yemisi

Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos

Chill Vibes

Vortex

Unity

Arike