Search: 85 results found for "Yoruba heritage"

Digital illustration of a bearded man in a hoodie, cap and plaid jacket on a wooden stool, reading a book titled Na Man You Be, a yellow smiley card over his face, on a blue ground.

Curator's Note

Look past the outfit to the face, or what replaces it. A yellow card with a drawn-on smile is stuck over a man reading his own rulebook. St…

Edo/Benin

Na Man You Be

Yr. 2022

Joshua AdegboyeJoshua A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital portrait of a young Black girl with a full afro and a small gold crown, blue eyes, surrounded by red, pink and violet fish in turquoise water.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

A fairy tale rewritten by someone it left out. Emmanuel's mermaid has an afro, a crown and an ocean that answers to her. For some children …

Undeclared

Black Mermaid

Yr. 2021

Emmanuel AbakahEmmanuel A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-white illustration of a pregnant woman with eyes closed, one arm raised to balance a tall patterned vessel on her head, large flowers and a small bird beside her, on a black ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Yeko calls her son her Sun, and this is a picture of carrying one. A pregnant woman balances a tall patterned vessel on her head, eyes clos…

Ugandan

Under My Sun

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of a figure with a mandrill's face and a flaring white mane, one hand on its chest, cradling a human skull against its body, in deep red and brown on a dark ground.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

The last of Joshua Omoijiade's horseman collection, “the bringers of death in a world of my fashioning”. Babi holds a skull close, one hand…

Inspired by Ancient Egypt

Babi

Yr. 2021

Joshua OmoijiadeJoshua O.

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.

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.

Illustration of an ancient Egyptian royal family: a pharaoh in a red-and-cream striped headdress, a queen holding a baby, and five children in white linen and gold, before a pink wall of trees.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Egyptian art usually kept its kings remote. Sandro Perovic gives his pharaoh a family and lets them touch. A hand rests on a shoulder, a ba…

Inspired by Ancient Egypt

Family

Sandro PerovicSandro P.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of five tall candles with dripping wax, their flames glowing, set at different heights against a gradient from yellow to deep orange.

LTD. 15/15

Curator's Note

No candle ever loses its light by lighting others. Anth Ezeokoye gives that saying fiery colour, so the light seems to burn from inside the…

Igbo

Light Others

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. Ed.

Pen-and-ink drawing of a rhinoceros suspended in the air by about twenty thin threads, each held by a tiny winged insect, on a pale coffee-stained background.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

About twenty insects, each on its own thread, lift a rhinoceros that seems entirely at peace with the arrangement. Anth Ezeokoye's pen draw…

Igbo

Teamwork

Yr. 2020

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital portrait of a Black woman with vitiligo, eyes closed, face lifted to a purple sunrise sky, wearing large green hoop earrings.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Emmanuel takes the thing a woman is taught to cover and paints it as weather: vitiligo shaped like clouds at first light. It is the gentles…

Undeclared

Sunrise

Yr. 2022

Emmanuel AbakahEmmanuel A.

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.

Illustration of a tiny figure casting a long shadow on a bright yellow winding road through an orange canyon, with angular rocks and a white sun in a grey-blue sky.

LTD. 15/15

Curator's Note

Find the small figure on the winding yellow road, and the long shadow behind them. Anth Ezeokoye drew Discovery of Self so the distance alr…

Igbo

Discovery of Self

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Na Man You Be

Black Mermaid

Under My Sun

Babi

Prayer

Alive

Family

Light Others

Teamwork

Sunrise

Limitless

Discovery of Self