Wood Sculptor Adebisi Adebayo, AMIAF'S 2024 Awardee
Introducing Wood Sculptor Adebisi Adebayo, An AMIAF'S 2024 Awardee
Artists like Adebisi remind us of an era far gone, when wood carvers were looked upon, as the greatest artists in the traditional African society.
Adebisi, as she is known is a wood carver with many years of apprenticeship and training.
She is preserving the traditional technique of wood carving. What was so amazing to me, was the fact that she is a woman in a field that is highly discriminatory and masculine.
Traditional African carvers are not known to be women, Adebisi is changing that idea and showing women and young girls, that their is a career path in this aspect of visual art and it is indeed inspiring and a breath of fresh air to those of us Artists and collectors, who support and collect these kinds of wood carvings.
We also know that some of Picasso's inspirations came from African wood carvings like these, this is the reason why artists like Adebisi matter.
Brief Artist Bio
Adebisi Adebayo is a trained wood carver she was an apprentice to Tairu Bankole who was an apprentice to Ganiyu Fakeye for a couple of years and now a master wood carver on her own. Her future plans is to promote traditional and modern wood works in Africa.
