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Patrick Akpojotor is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, printmaking, installation art, and sculpture. Akpojotor comes from Agbarha-Otor, Delta state, and lives and works in Lagos. He studied Fine Art at the School of Art, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi and Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, where he majored in Graphic Design. He also trained as a studio assistant with Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya, one of Nigeria’s foremost experimental artists. Akpjotor has won several awards including the ART X Lagos Prize (2016), and the Olusegun Obasanjo Prize for the “Off The Bin Project” (2013). He has participated in several group exhibitions including “IN-TER-ACTIONS” at Rele Art Gallery. In 2019 he had his first solo exhibition curated by SMO Contemporary at the Wheatbaker. He has participated in the semi-annual Harmattan Workshops both as a participant, and as a facilitator in painting, leathercraft and drawing. His work merges visual elements of the built environment, geometry, human forms and imagined spaces to create abstract composition that interrogate our sense of perception challenging us to see differently.
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Patrick Akpojotor
Head VIII, 2021My work is influenced by my fascination with architecture, ancient African art, built spaces and the difference in human attitude, relating to the culture of a built environment that we inhabit and it ability to shape ones identity.
My art merges elements of architecture, urban landscape, human forms and imagined spaces to create abstract composition with the intention to interrogate our sense of perception
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Deborah Segun is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Fashion Design from the Polimoda Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing in Florence, Italy (2017). During her studies in fashion, she translated her art production into clothing, creating conceptual and sculptural wearable pieces. Her works are mainly figurative with a focus on portraiture. It can be described as a mix between cubism and abstraction, as she takes a playful, purist approach to her work by focusing on form rather than detail, through the use of different artistic mediums. Deborah’s works have been exhibited in several exhibitions and fairs, such as ART X Lagos (2019), FIAC Paris (2021), and Frieze New York (2021), as well as her solo exhibition “Being Free” with SMO Contemporary Art (2020). The inspiration behind Deborah’s works stem from her personal and shared experiences as a woman, as well as observations of spaces she occupies. She captures these experiences through her unique and experimental use of colours and shapes, and exaggerates the figures or displaces them, as she believes it is her way of confronting how she sees things.
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These paintings are an acknowledgment of feelings and emotions that cannot be put in words. Losing a loved one is an occurrence we hope to never experience but know will happen eventually. The feeling of confusion and lonliness that sets in at the realisation that a loved one is gone. The denial, the pain, the acceptance and the healing. How do we cope when we lose a loved one? This is a documentation of an ongoing process of grief.
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London
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