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Odun Orimolade, PhD painter, trans-disciplinary artist and art educator

Subject: African Artists and Drawing
Odun Orimolade is a trans-disciplinary artist, and academic based in Lagos, Nigeria. She incorporates and explores different media spanning drawing, installation, and performance. She approaches her artistic practice attending to a mix of ideologies and worldviews cultivated from different resource areas including archives, literature, cultural philosophies among others (Nubuke Foundation, 2020).

An alumnus of Yaba College of Technology and the University of South Africa, Orimolade (PhD in Fine Art) lectures in the Fine Art Department of the Yaba College of Technology. She has presented in several solo and group exhibitions and artist residencies. Her work has been presented in spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary African and Diaspora Art, New York; Bern Performance Art Festival, Switzerland; Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden; among others.
I her statement she said "I try to machinate emotional intensity and spiritual reaction through an exploration of the biomorphic, flowing figurative and abstract modes. In a mix of curious microcosms of recognizable image fragments in unrecognizable contexts so to speak. In this I blend generative, degenerative and regenerative tendencies as a force of energy reprising with all states of consciousness and tangibility." (Art Twenty One, 2018)


Odun Orimolade Drawings
Image source: https://mocada-museum.tumblr.com/post/67269700791/odun-orimolade-is-an-artist-in-six-draughtsmen


















By: Benjamin Onuorah

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