Monday, 14 July 2014
20 Nigerian Contemporary Artists you should know.
Felix Idubor:(Sculptor):
Felix Idubor was born in 1925 in Benin City, Edo State.
Initially, he was a self-trained Artist and became a member of Benin Carvers Association. He later studied Art at the Royal College of Art, London. Since then he has taught Art at Edo College, Benin City and Sculpture at Yaba Technical College and opened the Idubor Art Gallery in Lagos, where artists are trained. His many exhibitions in Nigeria included the Nigerian Independence Exhibition of 1960. He has also exhibited in Britain, Germany and Zambia. Some of his commissioned works include carved doors for the Oba of Lagos, a more than life-size sculpture titled Mother Africa in front of Nigeria's National Gallery of Modern Art, National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.
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