Country
Nigeria
In the first episode we meet Nengi Omuku in her studio in Lagos, Nigeria. Omuku shares insights on how she blends classic western painting techniques with traditional African materials, and how she uses art as a powerful tool to tackle mental health challenges.
Through an extremely versatile and organic body of work, Nengi Omuku explores her relationship with the body, conceived as the sensitive key that allows her to regain ownership over her identity, emotions and power. Omuku obtained both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Slade School of Fine Art in the United Kingdom.
In 2018 she was commissioned by the Arts Council England to paint a mural within an intensive care psychiatric facility in London. Realising the positive impact her art had on the patients’ wellbeing, she later founded The Art of Healing (TAOH), an organisation aimed at supporting people in challenging circumstances to heal, using art as therapy.
Her works have been collected by private and public international collections including the HSBC Art Collection, the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection and the Dawn Art Collection.
