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Meet Dotun Popoola: 2024 AMIAF Award-Winning Hybrid Sculptor Shaping the Future of Art This year's Artmiabo international Art Festival AMIAF will be recognizing Mr Dotun Popoola an Inspiring multimedia artist and sculptor. The theme for this year's Art Festival is the "Sculptor's Odyssey" This new generation hybrid young talent has opened our eyes to a new style and thought process on how we see sculpture pieces. He is dedicated to creating inspirational sculptural pieces that center around environmental themes. Internationally recognized for his ability to craft sculptures with a keen focus on environmental sustainability, he is renowned for his unique approach in utilizing found and discarded objects in his personal sculptor's odyssey. Dotun acknowledges through his sculpture pieces that environmental art is the way forward for sculptors whilst subtly through his art, educating the public on the urgent need to participate in a clean environment. Artist Bio...

  Wood Sculptor Adebisi Adebayo,  AMIAF'S 2024 Awardee Introducing Wood Sculptor Adebisi Adebayo,  An AMIAF'S 2024 Awardee Ms Adebisi Adebayo : A wood sculptor, Adebisi came to our attention through Facebook, and her craft's significance was immediately evident. As a female carver in Nigeria, she not only inspires but also sparks crucial conversations about diversity and the role of women in what may seem like a predominantly male domain. Adebisi brought a breath of fresh air to the 2022 edition of the Amiaf Art Festival, captivating the audience with her live carving skills. Since then, she has carved a niche for herself in her own sculptor's odyssey.   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 ...

  Profile of Artist and Metal Sculptor Segun Okewumi                        Sculptor Artist - Segun Okewumi     Artmiabo International Art Festival "RE-MAKE THE WORLD" 29TH APRIL-1ST MAY, 2022 LAGOS NIGERIA SPONSORED BY JCDecaux & Multichoice Nigeria Segun Okewumi, is a young emerging Artist and Metal Sculptor, his work could be seen as inspired by Steam punk Art because of his choice of work materials. He's art style is centered around humanity and his materials of choice are discarded nuts, bolts, and mechanical engine metal pieces.  He's ability to view these discarded metal objects as instruments of Art shows his level of creativity and ability to create a sustainable living from his environment. His inspiration comes from his mother and the underprivileged.  Segun's latest works are more reflective of his personal relationship with his Mum, Girl Education, and Parenting...below are some o...

  Artmiabo International Art Festival 29TH APRIL-1ST MAY, 2022 LAGOS NIGERIA SPONSORED BY JCDecaux & Multichoice Nigeria Profile of Artist Adeola Balogun, PHD  International Artist Adeola Balogun, is one I would refer to as an Artist's Artist! meaning an Artist who is loved and respected by his peers and one whose artworks are desired by fellow artists, in fact Artists collect his works.  Artists want to own his works and attend his exhibitions.  He has an ability to read the times and adjust his work to what is relevant but still maintaining his distinct style and his ability to invoke conversations around his creativity.  These amongst others are the reason Adeola is selected to Participate in the Artmiabo International Art Festival 2022. Artist’s Statement  Discarded or found objects though generally considered to have seemingly lost their primary usefulness are laced with robust history of previous usefulness pulsating with immense possibilities. Th...