Search: 71 results found for "undeclared heritage"

Monochrome portrait of a young Black man, eyes closed, wearing a gold crown among grey roses, with gold marks beneath one eye and a gold line down his lips and chin.

Curator's Note

The centrepiece of Toni Kuyinu's royal trio, and the only face that meets us head-on, yet his eyes are closed. Nothing is being claimed or …

Yoruba

Crown

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· 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.

Black ink line drawing of a tall woman in a headwrap and long garment holding a staff, walking through water patterned with circles, with mountains, a field of crops, a wavy sky and a round moon.

LTD. 15/15

Curator's Note

Yeko calls it a spiritual journey of self discovery and growth. Her tall, unhurried woman walks through water drawn as a field of circles. …

Ugandan

River Journey

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. Ed.

Illustration of a green mask-like face with blue eyelids, red beaded locs, tongue out and a star by the nose, purple spikes around it, set like a playing card with a red M in the corners on ochre.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

KeO calls her a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He then gives her a tongue stuck out at the viewer and a star for a beauty mark.…

Yoruba

Mojisola

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Dense black-and-white illustration of a large face with closed eyes, a hand holding a small vessel, a serpent with a face, a many-faced figure, and women dancing, drumming and carrying below.

STU. 59/60

Curator's Note

The most crowded of Yeko's pictures, and the most devotional. There is a great face with closed eyes, a hand lifting a small vessel, women …

Ugandan

Offerings

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration on green of a round mask face with a red fringe, two red buns, heavy-lidded blue eyes, tongue out, blue comb-shaped earrings and a red bead loop; letter S and small copies in corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…

Yoruba

Shindara

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of CMS Cathedral in Lagos with its clock tower against a large yellow sun; a man in a dark suit walks past taxis and a bus stop sketched in yellow line.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

In Lagos, CMS is as much a direction as a building. Anth Ezeokoye gives the church its place in Made in Lagos. It is a series made to prese…

Yoruba

CMS Church, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

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.

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.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Her eyes are closed, and that changes everything. She is not surveying a court; she is somewhere inward, chin lifted, a queen with no need …

Yoruba

Queendom

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Long-exposure photograph of looping blue and pink light trails forming an open ring with a bright coiled knot near the centre, on a black background.

STU. 40/40

Curator's Note

Nothing in Alive is solid. A light passed through the dark again and again, and the camera kept every pass, blue shot through with pink. Fo…

Igbo

Alive

Fortune EzeFortune E.

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.

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Crown

Old Man Red

River Journey

Mojisola

Offerings

Shindara

CMS Church, Lagos

Unity

Yemisi

Queendom

Alive

Black Messiah