Search: 86 results found for "artworks with a cultural passport"

Illustration of a woman with pale blonde curls and a red-tinted face glancing sideways, wearing a green dress with a wide white collar, a red brushstroke across a grey background.

Curator's Note

The collar is the detail to find: wide, white and a little old-fashioned, worn with complete confidence. Ekundayo keeps her face in quick p…

Yoruba

Miss White

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Line illustration of an abstracted face on yellow: one closed blue eye, one open purple eye, a third eye on the brow, patterned blue fingers from the top and a purple triangle.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Count the eyes: one closed, one open, one at the brow with a spiral for a pupil. Godwin removes the name from the face on purpose, so what …

Undeclared

Nameless 001

Yr. 2021

Godwin Edet MunamGodwin E. M.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Faceted digital portrait of a Black man with a large afro circled by a glowing white ring, one eye shining like a star, in an ochre robe over one shoulder, under an arch of gold scrollwork on teal.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

A ring of white light, one eye flaring like a star, an ochre robe over a bare shoulder. Dayo paints Christ as a young African man with a fu…

Yoruba

Black Messiah

Dayo Gerard AkindoyeniDayo G. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of Oshodi, Lagos: an old Mercedes bus seen from the front, a cable footbridge over the road, a crowd, a man in a striped football shirt and the sun.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The molue at the front of this picture has mostly left Lagos roads, which is exactly why it belongs here. Anth Ezeokoye parks the old Merce…

Yoruba

Oshodi, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of a bald man squatting with eyes closed, one hand on his chest and the other touching the ground, while three dark shadowy figures with raised hands stand behind him in grey-green smoke.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

A man squats with one hand drawing chalk on the ground and the other pressed to his heart, as shadow figures close in. For Joshua Omoijiade…

Undeclared

Prayer

Yr. 2021

Joshua OmoijiadeJoshua O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of a woman in pink and purple tones with two afro puffs and a dark strapless top, glancing sideways beside a bright window against an orange wall.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…

Igbo

Feminist

Yr. 2024

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painterly photograph of drummers in cream robes and caps walking in procession, dark red drums at their sides, on red earth under a bright blue sky, with an arch and crowd at right.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Tajudeen photographed a procession of drummers in cream robes under a hard blue sky, then reworked it until it moved like paint. The faces …

Inspired by the Nupe royal court

Royal Drummers

Yr. 2019

Omotayo TajudeenOmotayo T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of the Lagos Central Mosque with four minarets and a dome, a crescent moon over a pale disc, and market umbrellas and a crowd below.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

In the rest of Made in Lagos a yellow sun shines over the scene. Above the Central Mosque, Anth Ezeokoye turns it into a crescent moon. It …

Yoruba

Central Mosque, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of a blue-skinned woman, head tilted back and eyes closed, white scalloped pattern on face and chest, flower earring, flying bead necklace, before a pale dripping moon on red swirls.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Notice Me is a title that asks, and a pose that does not need to. Her head is tipped back, eyes closed, beads flying loose from her throat:…

Yoruba

Notice Me

Yr. 2023

Michael C. EkenobiMichael C. E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Caricature of the Nigerian rapper Phyno with a full beard, purple hoodie and cap, hands clasped, glancing to the side.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

An homage to the rapper who made Igbo sound like the obvious choice. Clement Obioha exaggerates the beard and the bulk and leaves the side-…

Igbo

Phyno

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

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.

Digital artwork of a frontal head and neck covered in black and white marbling, with teal, pink and pale blue lilies behind it and a black sphere beside the cheek, on a deep violet background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…

Undeclared

Camouflage

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Miss White

Nameless 001

Black Messiah

Oshodi, Lagos

Prayer

Feminist

Royal Drummers

Central Mosque, Lagos

Notice Me

Phyno

Unity

Camouflage