Whatever art has to offer Nigeria in the spiritual realm, six artists from Lagos and the FCT,
Abuja will explain when they open group art exhibition titled Prayer for Nigeria, from Tuesday, August 27 at The Thought Pyramid Art Gallery, in Abuja.
The artists, Angela Amami-Isiuwe, Victoria
Udondian, Ngozi Akande, Klaranze Okhide, Stella Awoh and Juliet Ezenwa
Maja-Pearce hope that with their art, the contributions of women at this
period of the country’s challenges would have been acknowledged.
The coordinator of the group, Ezenwa Maja-Pearce, believes that the ongoing
challenges, facing Nigeria, can be solved by prayers of women and children from
across the country. The gathering, according to the organisers was inspired by
one of Ezenwa Maja-Pearce‘s works, a collection of acrylic collage paintings on
canvas, portraying groups of women and
children deep in fervent prayer.
A native of one of Nigeria's troubled spots, the oil-producing Delta State, she has been in the forefront of the campaign for upholding the rights of women and the girl-child in Nigeria. Her works on those themes were exhibited at the Female Genital Mutilation Exhibition in Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. She currently runs an NGO, Future-Perfect, which organises creative workshops and trainings for empowering women and young people.
Ezenwa's Yemaja Art Gallery in Surulere, Lagos, takes on students on
industrial attachment and apprenticeship. She is very widely exhibited. Her
recent works are a collector’s must-have. She has many solo exhibitions to her
credit. She is usually found at the annual Harmattan Workshop organised by the
Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation, which takes place at Agbahra-Otor, Delta state.
Migrations, her most recent solo exhibition of plates, prints and
installations, took place (on August 2012)
at the Nike Art Gallery in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.
Thought
Pyramid discloses that the plan to exhibit the works
of the female artists in Abuja, has been in the pipeline for a long time. “Like
most labour-intensive professions, female artists are very few. The challenges
they confront in order to keep practicing their art is enormous. They have
worked hard to produce and finish the works for this show. Each of them has
been in the field for a good number of years and they have all shown the potential
for longevity. I am very pleased to invite the Abuja public to come and view
this exhibition.”
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