‘Becoming a person of texture' is an experimentation and exploration of texture in my journey through different materials that I have employed in my art practice. I have used materials such as Canvas, Dyed Canvas [Batik], Yoruba Aso Oke Weave, and Textile Collage and now...
Artist Statement I think that painting relates very neatly to individual experience and the exploration of immediate environment. With painting, I always get the impression that you’re sort of documenting contemporary issues that create discourse. —Alimi Adewale Alimi Adewale is a painter and sculptor who explores urban issues...
Somewhere along the line, “disruptive innovation” became a buzzy concept in business circles. But disruption, innovation, and defied expectations have long been tools in the artist’s kit. A priority of these body work in this salon show is to disrupt norms and defy expectations because...
Alimi Adewale, has been living in the urban sprawl of Ibeju Lekki, Lagos for the past decade, through art he explores life within these non-conforming developments, elaborating further on this theme, he embarks on an enquiry into the scattered existence of fringe urbanisation. Pinpointing and...
The body of work in this salon exhibition documents the everyday people, brilliantly buoyant culture, Lagos with it's bumper-to-bumper cars, noise and pollution beyond belief and maxed-out public utilities. Elevated motorways ringing the island, city are jammed with speed freaks and absurd traffic jams ('go-slows')...
Nurturing and encouraging creative potential stands at the center of preparing children for life. Whether a child develops into an artist or scientist, encouraging the creative process is essential in the early educational years. Venue: Banana Island School 227 Close 2nd Avenue Date: 27th of April...
ALIMI ADEWALE Artist in Residence 14th March- 16th April 2017 MILIKI Lagos 7b Etim Iyang Crescent Vitoria Island The formal objective of MILIKI is the provision of facilities and amenities of a private lounge, run on commercial principles, for the purpose of social intercourse of persons connected with or interested...
Restrictions a body of work on how restricted we in the less developed world are in in terms of mobility and migration compared to people in the developed world who can travel anywhere and whenever. Just Africa is an urban meeting place at Slussen in Stockholm,...
This is a travelling exhibition of Painting and Serigraph created and first exhibited at Galleri Asley Uttersberg and now travelling to KonstForum in Norrkoping Sweden exhibition opens from the 15th of January to the 29th 2017....
Restrictions is a body of work on how restricted we in the less developed world are in in terms of mobility and migration compared to people in the developed world who can travel anywhere and whenever. Galleri Astley Uttersberg 11, 739 92 Skinnskatteberg Sweden 5th -27th November...