Search: 84 results found for "ugandan fine art prints"

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

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.

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.

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.

STU. 60/60

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.

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 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.

Grey-toned portrait of a girl with two afro puffs holding a white feather vertically over half her face, eyes closed, a gold ring around one eye and gold marks on her lip and shoulders.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Toni Kuyinu's gold usually crowns kings and queens. Here it rings the closed eye of a girl holding a single white feather to her face. It i…

Yoruba

Light as a Feather

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of two young men leaning their heads together, one in a red shirt and brown jacket, one in a yellow shirt and black jacket, face markings, before an orange-and-black patterned wall.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Two young men lean their heads together until they almost touch. Divine Momoh marks each face differently, a zigzag and spiral on one, a lo…

Yoruba

My Brother

Divine MomohDivine M.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

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.

STU. 60/60

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Janus 1

Vortex

Crown

Family

Nameless 002

Light as a Feather

My Brother

Na Man You Be

Growth

Babi

Psalm 12

Heiwa