ITA OBA
Grand Inn, Oba sikiru Adetona golden jubilee center
ÌTA ỌBA draws from the rich history of the Ojude Oba Festival, originally known as ÌTA ỌBA. This festival, now one of Nigeria’s largest, sees families of Ijebu descent parade in vibrant attire on horseback to pay homage to the king. My sculpture reflects this tradition, incorporating relief portraits of key historical and contemporary figures—Balogun Bello Kuku, Pa Asani Sote, Oba Sikiru Adetona, Otunba Subomi Balogun, Michael Adenuga, and Asiwaju Adegunwa—all of whom have shaped and sustained the festival's legacy.
God-Pocket
, Birmingham, UK
GOD-POCKET, an Afrospeculative ‘firmament’ situated between time and space. It is a crossroads between the seen past and unseen future; a pocket universe where Otherness learns to become morphological.Identity is an ongoing topic in Black British discourse, with themes of displacement and belonging fuelling concerns around self-actualization.GOD-POCKET, features commissioned artworks from Birmingham-based artists Trixiebella Suen, Tesha Murrain-Hernandez, Neoliberalizard, and Yusuf Dongo.