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Connecting you to #AfricanArt & Culture. #Contemporaryafricanart. The latest: an insight into the practice of #nigerian artist Williams Chechet 👇🏾 link below

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Inside Magdalene Odundo’s sculptural world of clay.
Magdalene Odundo is a British-Kenyan artist. Born in Kenya in 1950, she first trained as graphic designer before discovering ceramics. She completed her formal ceramic training at the West Surrey College of Art in England 1/10

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Not so much museum seen through children’s eyes but Nigeria seen through the eye’s of 11 years old artist Waspa.
#nigerianartists
#ChildrensEyesMW #MuseumWeek

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Let us know if you enjoyed this thread ☝🏾and what other artist’s practice you would like us to explore next.
Thank you for reading 😊

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Inside Magdalene Odundo’s sculptural world of clay.
Magdalene Odundo is a British-Kenyan artist. Born in Kenya in 1950, she first trained as graphic designer before discovering ceramics. She completed her formal ceramic training at the West Surrey College of Art in England 1/10

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The 2019 exhibition "The Journey of Things" has traced back Odundo’s creative journey spanning four decades and the way her style evolved to create the highly stylized forms we know today. 10/10
#art #womemartist #WomensHistoryMonth #Artwork #iloveart

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@pinkykhoabane Indeed. Her work is truly breathtaking.... the thread continues 👉🏾 there is more .

[1-54 Art Fair @154artfair]

Join us on Weds 2 December for a 1-54 Webinar: Creating public installations across Africa and its diaspora with Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell, Zak Ové, David Ogunmuyiwa in conversation with Dr. George Tebogo Mahashe,

17:00 GMT/ 19:00 SAST
Register: https://t.co/dWQb8w25Om

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Source : New traditions from Nigeria. Seven artists of the Nsukka Group. The book and the show at National Museum of African Art were a culmination of a research project into the work of the Nsukka Group.
#nigerianartist #Nsukka #forgottennomore
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WIP: research into forgotten female African artists.
Ada Udechukwu was linked to the Nsukka group (Nigeria)
She was the only woman in the exhibition “The Poetics of Line: Seven Nigerian Artists” (97)
1) In the Temple of my familiar 90 1/4
#AfricanFemaleArtist #womensart

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In an interview with Simon Ottenberg, she explained “I am somebody who really needs solitude to create. It’s difficult to try and create and handle housework and run back to creating, which is basically what I have to do.”
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#Africanart

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@Pavillon54Ltd Do you have a link to the article or is it only the paper version?

[CAP Prize @CAP_Prize]

Meet Rahima Gambo, awarded with the 9th @CAP_Prize for Contemporary African Photography for: Tatsuniya

The call to the 10th edition of the CAP Prize will open on 7 Nov 2020. https://t.co/erR1JTJoCU.

#capprize #africanphotography #capassociation #winners2020 #artward