Search: 84 results found for "Yoruba Fine Art Prints"

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.

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.

Black-and-white illustration in playing-card format: two mirrored profiles facing outward, a central flower, crowned birds, roundels, sunburst rays and corner rosettes.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Two faces in profile, back to back, and a flower opening exactly between them. Ibrahim gives the Roman god of doorways a playing-card symme…

Hausa

Janus 1

Ibrahim Buhari GamboIbrahim B. G.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of two cat-headed Egyptian goddesses in white gowns holding hands: a cheetah-headed figure raising a tray with a bleeding heart, and a grey cat-headed figure holding a gold sistrum.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Two feline goddesses walk hand in hand: Mafdet, cheetah-headed, holding up a bleeding heart, and Bastet, grey and cat-headed, raising her s…

Inspired by Ancient Egypt

Mafdet-Bastet

Sandro PerovicSandro P.

From$55· 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.

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 hunched young man in a dark hoodie hugging himself, head bowed and trailing dark smoke with embers, as many hands reach toward him from a red sky; pale gold light at right.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

Precious Emeka Anih paints pressure from every side: a young man doubled over as hands reach in from a burning sky, his creative fire burni…

Igbo

Psalm 12

Precious Emeka AnihPrecious E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Low-angle photograph of chess pieces on a rose and maroon board: a black pawn, a white pawn and a black rook in focus, blurred pieces in front, dark background.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Fortune shoots from board level and lets the near pieces dissolve. Out of the blur stands one white pawn, flanked by a black pawn and a bla…

Igbo

The Meeting

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 many hands in pale grey, brown and black reaching toward a central red hand, with a glowing lilac butterfly on its fingertip, over a red square on a grey ground.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Pale, brown and near-black hands reach in from every side, and the butterfly settles on the fingertip of a hand painted red. Ezeh gives the…

Undeclared

We Are Different But Very Much The Same

Eze Divine FavourEze D. F.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of a serene blue face speckled with stars, eyes closed, a third eye and small meditating figure on the brow, planet and moon earrings, gold neck rings and hatched hair.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

The calm here has a source: between the closed eyes sits a tiny meditating figure, crowned by the third eye. Godwin gives the face a night …

Undeclared

Nameless 002

Yr. 2021

Godwin Edet MunamGodwin E. M.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of a figure in motion, head tilted back, arms raised and outstretched, split blue and dark red, holding small pink flowers in its mouth against a red field of script-like marks.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

The figure in Growth throws its head back and reaches out, split blue and red, and between its teeth it carries a few small flowers. Ezeh's…

Undeclared

Growth

Eze Divine FavourEze D. F.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-white ink illustration: block characters at top, the kanji 神 at left, a hand with contour-line skin sprouting leaves from waves, an eye below and a ribbon reading 'you go see shege'.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Heiwa is Japanese for peace, and Ezeh crowns the drawing with heavy block characters above a hand rising out of swirling waves. Then a ribb…

Undeclared

Heiwa

Eze Divine FavourEze D. F.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Alive

Janus 1

Mafdet-Bastet

Nameless 001

Limitless

Psalm 12

The Meeting

Family

We Are Different But Very Much The Same

Nameless 002

Growth

Heiwa