TIWANI CONTEMPORARY
Founded in London in 2011 by Maria Varnava, Tiwani Contemporary represents international contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, the gallery opened a purpose-built 2,000 sq ft space on Victoria Island, Lagos, in February, 2022. Today, it boasts a year-round programme of solo and group exhibitions at each location. Alongside its programme of 10 exhibitions a year, Tiwani Contemporary collaborates with G.A.S, the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, to offer residencies in Lagos to artists from its roster.
ANDREW PIERRE HART
Red Black Green Gowned Player Blows, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 125 x 90 cm
Andrew Pierre Hart lives and works in London. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (where he’s an associate lecturer), a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, and is a recipient of ArtAngel’s Thinking Time Award (2020) and the Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019). His work, deeply influenced by music, explores the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting through ongoing rhythmic research and play of improvised and spontaneous generative processes, and renegotiates the visual language and legacies of Western abstraction, probing connections between the phenomena, language and representation of sound in painting.
GARETH NYANDORO
Elonet Flats Ruwa, 2021, Ink on Paper, 52 x 45 cm
Gareth Nyandoro (b. 1985, Zimbabwe) is noted for large-scale works on paper that often spill out of their two-dimensional format into installations that include scrap paper and objects found in the markets of Harare, where he lives and works. His chief source of inspiration is the landscape of his city and the daily life of its residents, including within the larger cultural context of Zimbabwe. Drawing on his training as a printmaker, Nyandoro developed a technique he calls “Kucheka cheka”, named after the Shona verb cheka, which means “to cut”. At ART X Lagos, he will present illustrative examples of the resulting work.
JOY LABINJO
Francis Barber, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 60 cm
At the heart of Labinjo’s practice is a keen interest in storytelling and people’s lives. Labinjo explores multiple modes of representation including abstraction, naturalism, flatness and graphic patterns through a “collage aesthetic” comprising an eclectic visual vocabulary and mixed painterly techniques, echoing her experience of multiple identities – growing up Black, British, Nigerian in the 90s and early 00s. Labinjo was awarded the Woon Art Prize in 2017. Her acclaimed commission for Brixton Underground Station in London, 5 More Minutes, was on view throughout November 2022. Recent exhibitions include shows at Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa (2022) and The Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge, UK (2022).
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