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By: Chieloka Anadu Martha Adanma Okechukwu is a Nigerian visual artist based in Lagos whose largely figurative practice uses the human figure to explore emotion, memory, and lived experience – particularly around identity, family, childhood, culture, relationships, and belonging. Central to her thinking is a fascination with how experience connects across time, “how the past…

By: Chieloka Anadu Johnny Rao’s practice draws on what he experiences, observes, and hears: “stories, emotions, human experiences, beauty, pain, joy, and difficult moments,” all of which he works to transform into a personal visual language. Calmness, reflection, and meditation sit alongside that transformation as essential parts of his creative process, shaping not just what…

By: Chieloka Anadu Emmanuel Eweje describes himself as “a contemporary Nigerian artist driven by a deep passion for creative diversity and a keen eye for design.” His practice spans acrylic painting and thread painting, approached with what he calls “meticulous attention to detail and a profound understanding of cultural symbolism.” His stated goal is “to…

By: Chieloka Anadu Lolu Fenuyi describes himself simply as “a self-taught digital mixed media artist” who combines graphic design software and AI to create his work. His art is themed mainly around hip hop culture, street dance, and performing, and the reason isn’t hard to find: “in addition to being an artist, I am also…

By: Chieloka Anadu Daria Demchuk, who works under the artistic name Darlis, is a France-based, self-taught artist moving across acrylic painting, watercolour, and digital art. Her practice centers on colour, nature, human presence, and symbolic form, but at its heart is a more specific curiosity: the emotional relationship between an image and the person looking…

by: Chieloka Anadu Imo Diamond Lawrine experienced a shift that turned a lifelong habit into a practice. Self-taught, she works mainly in charcoal and pastel, with most of her work centered on women and human experience: emotion, identity, vulnerability, resilience, and hope. Her images draw directly from lived experience – things she has felt, witnessed,…

by: Chieloka Anadu Stephen Akpenuchi Bethel, professionally known as FDR – From Dreams To Reality – is a Nigerian visual artist and creative director whose work explores identity, memory, resilience, and the emotional experiences that shape our understanding of self and community. Through symbolism, abstraction, and expressive form, he transforms everyday experience into visual narrative,…

By Chieloka Anadu For Kennedy Adewale, the camera is not a device for capturing perfection, it is an instrument for locating the pulse. Working at the vibrant intersection of humanity and light, Adewale operates as both artistic photographer and poet, treating each frame and each line of verse as part of the same enduring project:…

by Chieloka Anadu For Kennyhoopss, born Kenoly Mbele Leprince, the loom is not simply a tool, it is a site of inheritance. A London-based textile designer of Congolese heritage, Kennyhoopss works with sustainable and recycled materials to explore identity through the intertwined languages of colour, pattern, and texture, treating each woven surface as a record…

by: Chieloka Anadu For Maria Paris, the canvas is a battlefield where classical tradition meets contemporary identity. Her practice is a sophisticated exploration of the tensions between realism and abstraction, a “play of contrasts” used to deconstruct and rebuild the image of the Black woman. By grounding her work in the technical rigor of the past,…