Featured Artist
Onyilo Uloko Samuel Otukpo
A Nigerian artist, trained at the Art School of Ahmadu Bello University -Zaria (popularly known as the Zaria Art School. He works in diverse materials as he believes that the material of expression has a direct correlation with the subject that inspires the artist.
New Body of Work exhibiting in 2022 - "A Visual Tradition"
Onyilo works in diverse materials as he believes that the material of expression has a direct correlation with the subject that inspires the artist. This is clear testimony of the eclectic spirit called ULOKO among the Idoma/Edo language groups in west Africa. In his quest to explore the human condition, he relies on his private encounter and phantasy. This forms the raw material for his works. He works in oil, acrylic, mixed media, Pencil and recently has been exploring performance and installation art in a bid to addressing the myriad of social challenges that a depleting humanity throws at him.
A Visual Tradition - expressing history in Water colour
Samuel Onyilo Uloko’s water colour works can be described as a visual feast to the African spirit. The bright and vivid colour and the subjects reflect our very essences as a people, the conscious visual materialization of our folk tales, history and songs give a very rich historical and sociological depth to the works in this series. He said of his water colour paintings “I try to see how i can appropriate African forms and motifs as visual vocabularies to express my phantasies. I use diverse motifs which appeal to me on a very personal level, some these motifs have underlining cultural connotation that I don’t take into consideration, I also create motifs that suites creative conscience. I draw inspiration sometimes from Hausa, Yoruba motifs and various other ones from Africa.
