Adumadan

THESE HAVE I LOVED

EXHIBITiON FROM THE COLLECTION OF ADUMADAN

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Page 3 Page 11 Selected works for sale from the Adumadan Collection. Artist Biography

Dipo Idris The Mystery of three, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 32 inches

UFUOMA ONOBRAKPEYA THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR ,2008 44 x 26 inches

Bode Olaniran Jega, 2002 Additive Plastography 20 x 34 inches

Dipo Idris Fishing for joy, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 34 inches

Rahmon Olugunna Twin forms, 2009 Oil on canvas 19 x 34 inches

Goddy Ekefrey Anxiety, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 28 x 50 inches

Emmanuel Ekefrey Melody Makers, 2006 Oil on canvas 72 x 66 inches

Adumadan Leopard and Lillies, 2010 Additive Plastograph 82 x 21inches

Rahmon Olugunna Drumers 2008 Oil on canvas 47 x 34 inches

Rahmon Olugunna Mother & Child, 2010 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches

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ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY
Rahmon Olugunna was born on the 2nd March 1973 in Oshogbo, Nigeria. Olugunna is a second generation Oshogbo artist, which takes its name from the ancient Nigerian town of Oshogbo - renowned as a cradle of Yoruba culture and spirituality. The Oshogbo art movement came into prominence in the 1950's with art anchored in Yoruba cultural heritage. Olugunna evolved his style under the tutelage of a number of Oshogbo masters including Rufus Ogundele and Muraina Oyelami. He has exhibited in Lagos, Abuja, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Sante Fe, U.S. and only this month he had a very successful solo in London, U.K. Ufuoma Onobrakpeya studied art, at the University of Benin located in the ancient and beautiful city of Benin. While there he studied under the distinguished Irein Wangboje, one of Nigerias foremost printmakers. In later years he went to Grad School at the Camberwell College of art in the London, U.K. where he also majored in printmaking. He is widely exhibited in Nigeria and the U.S. He currently teaches art at the Yaba College of Tech. in Lagos. His work is collected by Bill Clinton. Olusegun Fayemi Is a self trained photographer. Fayemi in the last 30 years has focused his energies, on his work as a documentary photographer traveling widely internationally, lecturing and sharing through several of his award winning photography books, images that seek to capture and celebrate Africans in a positive light. Adumadan Timbuktu Adumadan means black and beautiful, while Timbuktu was an ancient African City in Mali, in West Africa, which at a point was widely revered all over the world and considered very rich because of its wisdom. These two names Adumadan Timbuktu put together represent my artistic credo and vision in the arts, and indeed has been the inspiration for Mudiare Onobrakpeya to start creating works of art. Paul Igbonugo Received a diploma in art from Yaba College of Technology in 1965, after the Nigerian civil war, he proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he was classmates with Obiora Udechukwu, and graduated in 1972. In 1980 he took an post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Printmaking from Croydon College, London. He was lecturer Yaba College of Technology from 19721973, IMT Enugu from 19771992 and also lectured in Anambra State Polytechnic Oko. He has had a one man and several group shows in Nigeria. . Emanuel Ekong Ekefrey Emmanuel Ekong Ekefrey was born in 1952, in the heartland of Ibibio ethnic group in eastern Nigeria. The Ibibio have their own music, dance and language. Ekefreys paintings reflect their life as well as that of the gigantic City of Lagos metropolis, where he lives. He paints with humour, urban masquerades scenes, from everyday life at the crossroads of different human destinies. His works are a tangle of forms, figures, lines colours that produce an impression of extraordinary dynamism. His

works are to be seen globally in a feat of visual gymnastics that make man become part of paintings. Ekefrey has his own style. Emmanuel Ekong Ekefrey has exhibited his works in the major art centers of Europe and is not just working alone but has trained some other people how to paint and draw and paint in his style, including his younger brother Goddy Ekefrey and his 2 sons. Dipo Idris is self taught artist, and the son of the famous Idris photos of Oshogbo, who captured the golden and magical era of Oshogbo artistic Movement in the 60s. Dipo Idris is also a renowned sculptor and painter, and is credited with the phenomenal design of the Gates to the Osun groves in Oshogbo. Bode Olaniran was born in Sokoto and trained in Zaria under Gani Odutokun, where he obtained a diploma, specializing in painting, from at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1988. Since coming to Lagos in 1989, he was apprenticed and also worked closely to Dr. Bruce Onobrakpeya, in his Ovuomaroro Studio gallery in Mushin, Lagos. Over the years, Bode has become quite proficient in several printmaking techniques, including additive plastography and ivorex. He is also a founding participant of the now famous Harmattan Workshop Series, an annual retreat, for Nigerian artists and foreigners, that takes place in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Bode has taken part in several group shows in the U.S. and Nigeria.

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