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The First Edition of The Sole Adventurer Digital Magazine Is Out!

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] We are pleased to announce that the first edition of The Sole Adventurer digital magazine is finally out!

This issue highlights Nigeria’s presence at the 12th edition of the Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal as we profile the five Nigerian artists featured alongside other international artists. Bapstiste Madinier gives an overview of the biennale and highlights some of its challenges, while in a conversation with Simon Njami Artistic Director of the 12th Dak’Art Biennale, Bukola Oye navigates the basis for the theme and the urgent need to reignite an African dream and hope in Africa… [/dropcap]
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Meet Stephanie Unaeze, Founder of Tiennette1907 | Exclusive Interview

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] I came across Stephanie’s Illustrations on Instagram and she caught my attention. I almost felt like a proud sister, and immediately reposted her creative art. I became interested to get to know her more and to hear her story. She is a computer scientist turned painter and Illustrator. Let’s meet her.[/dropcap]
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Spotlight Wednesday | Owusu-Ankomah

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Owusu-Ankomah is a Ghanaian contemporary  artists popularly known for his use of Adinkra symbol in his artworks. His work deals with identity and body, with the use of Adinkra symbols which has numerous motifs.  Owusu-Ankomah re-interpreted their sybolischen content in an art context, where many of the original content remains. [/dropcap]Continue reading

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Spotlight Wednesday | Ghada Amer

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Ghada Amer is an Egyptian-born American painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, garden designer, and installation artist. She went to United States at age 11 and had her education at Villa Arson, EPIAR Nice where she studied painting and  received her MFA in 1989, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique in Paris. Her work explores  and expresses the submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love, the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty.[/dropcap]Continue reading

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Spotlight Wednesday | Chéri Samba

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Chéri Samba is one of those self taught painter through whom urban sign art was given international recognition. Chéri Samba is a billboard painter and a comic artist based in Kinshasa. He is the son of a blacksmith father and his mother a farmer who got his breakthrough from the exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre ( Curator : Jean Hubert Martin) at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989. [/dropcap]Continue reading

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Meet Yelloseesee Uwaoma "The Inkllustrator" | Exclusive Interview

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] I had the opportunity to meet this talented young man at the Creative Focus event I attended last year. It was almost as though we have met before, as he was friendly and humorous. His name is Yelloseesee (and no it’s not a nickname,  he mentioned) Uwaoma, a professional IT Engineer turned artist. An artist who creates classic ink arts using regular pen. Let’s meet him…[/dropcap]

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Meet Olawunmi Banjo "The Artist"

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]Olawunmi Banjo is one of the premium realists with well detailed finishing. She attended the Pan African University, Lagos, Nigeria where she studied Entrepreneurship. Olawunmi is a self developed Artist who loved drawing and painting as a kid, this made her develop a strong passion for her career. Her work captures the ideology that portrays deep and everyday social realities that confronts most societies. [/dropcap]Continue reading

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Spotlight Wednesday | Ablade Glover

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] Ablade Glover has had the benefit of training in countries such as Ghana, Britain and the United States. In the course of this, he has garnered a number of distinctions, showing his importance as an artist and enthusiastic educator both nationally and internationally. [/dropcap]

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Artisans at the French Bazaar in Lagos

[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] The French bazaar was held on the 6th of December in Lagos. Most artisans came from different states in Nigeria to exhibit varieties of products; hand made jam, arts, crafts, sculptures, scented candles, unique gift items and many more. Bellafricana was amongst the artisans, as always, I saved you some interesting pictures.. [/dropcap]

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