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Yoruba art, with its bold colors and patterns, has played a huge role in shaping global fashion. Its vibrant textiles and ...
“I’d never seen a pre-colonial Nigerian textile before, and it looked quite similar to linen.” The artist has exhibited in Paris, New York, Bangkok and London.
This journey has also allowed Omuku to consider how her artmaking could merge with her Nigerian culture by learning “how to prepare the surface for painting while still honouring the textile ...
Fashioning Modernity presents a selection of Nigerian textiles, beads, and related photographs in the Museum’s collections. Yoruba textiles—notably àdìrẹ and aṣọ òkè cloths—have become iconic markers ...
Eniloa Dawodu, a British-born Nigerian textile artist, costume designer and cultural archivist, will discuss her exhibition, “Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time,” at its opening on Nov.
There’s a meaningful intersection when that happens.” A handwoven, framed, vintage textile made by the Yoruba people of Nigeria dates to the sort of garments worn in the early to mid-1900s.
Her paintings, bead work and textile art, are on showcase for an exhibition at the Hotel InterContinental’s lobby, restaurant, corridors, business centre and lounge.
Her paintings, bead work and textile art, are on showcase for an exhibition at the Hotel InterContinental’s lobby, restaurant, corridors, business centre and lounge.
Austin finds yet another parallel with Greece in regard to Yoruba textiles, for as the chiton, the tunic-like garment of the Greeks, augmented the body during performance, so do the Yoruba togas ...