Samuel Nnorom (b. 1990) is a multi-award-winning artist whose work crosses tapestry-like sculpture and pre-loved Ankara wax fabric. Elements from his childhood have shaped and developed his contemporary practice, from sketching portraits of customers who visited his father’s shoe shop to playing with colourful scraps from his mother’s tailoring workshop. Through actions like sewing, rolling, tying, stringing, and suspending, he poetically navigates the boundaries between textile, painting, and sculpture. He holds an MFA in sculpture from the prestigious University of Nigeria and belongs to the New Nsukka School of Art. In Nnorom’s award winning public installations, he uses fishing and mosquito nets on a monumental scale that engages his audience seeking to interrogate social, emotional, political, and economic challenges faced by migrants and displaced persons around the world. Using Ankara textiles, whose origins are complex in the history of the continent, Nnorom explores its protean symbolism and reappropriates a contemporary fabric common in his community.