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  How artists recorded big sales at AMIAF's 'Sculptors Odyssey' AMIAF 2024: A Resounding Success in the Nigerian Art Scene After an exhilarating three days at the ArtMiabo International Art Festival (AMIAF) 2024 , the results speak for themselves! This year's festival not only showcased exceptional talent but also demonstrated strong sales, marking it as a pivotal event in the Sculptors Odyssey . Held from April 29 to May 1 at the EbonyLife Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, AMIAF has solidified its status as the largest art event in Q1, setting a new standard for large-scale art exhibitions. Curated by Yusuf Durodola , AMIAF 2024 launched with a forum titled The Art Economy , underlining the festival's influential role in shaping Africa's creative business landscape. With support from notable partners like Multichoice Nigeria, JCDecaux, Orijin, WakaEvents, and VandykeSports , the festival showcased the confidence of the corporate sector in the visionary leade...

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...

  Master Sculptor and Art Educationist, Adeola Balogun Celebrated at this Years Amiaf Artfestival. Dr. Adeola Balogun combines a fully engaged studio practice with a teaching career at Nigeria's premier tertiary institution, The Yaba College of Technology. He graduated from Yaba College of Technology, with a specialization in sculpture (1993/94) and Masters in Fine Art (MFA, Sculpture) at the University of Benin (2001/4), Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. He had his Ph.D. in Sculpture (Studio) at Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. Balogun’s brilliance as an artist transcends the core medium of sculpture on which he has built a reputation but also traverses other regions of the visual arts. This he realizes through uncanny capacity in transforming mundane materials that have seemingly lost their primary purpose into objects of remarkable aesthetic contemplation imbued with multilayered meanings.   Adeola has staged over a dozen solo exhibitions and won several awa...

  Celebrating the 'Woodpecker' Pius Waritimi, AMIAF 2024 Awardee Once Again Congratulations to Pius Waritimi On this award as 'The Master Carver of the Niger Delta' aka The Esteemed Woodpecker! In its third edition, Artmiabo International Art Festival Amiaf Artfestival 2024 is showcasing specific sculpture mediums as well as celebrating select artists with awards. One of the awardees, Pius Waritimi, a wood sculptor and academic, who is also showing at AMIAF 2024, spoke about the event, challenges of sculptors, and future of the medium. Organised by Miabo Enyadike - led AMIAF , the yearly event, which has the 2024 edition themed, Sculptor’s Odyssey, holds from April 29 to May 1, 2024, at EbonyLife Centre, Victoria Island Lagos. Enyadike described Waritimi as an art purist and artpreneur, who inspired many established artists. And in his post-academic career, Waritimi remains an active contributor to the art community in Rivers State and Bayelsa State. During an interv...

  ARTMIABO INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL  AMIAF 2024   THEME: 'SCULPTORS ODYSSEY"       The act of sculpting is an intimate dialogue between the artist and the material. It is a dance between control and surrender, as they mold, shape, and coax the raw substance into forms that reflect their innermost thoughts and feelings. With each piece, they strive to capture the essence of humanity—the beauty and complexity of existence, the triumphs and tribulations of our shared journey. The Sculptor's Odyssey is not bound by time or place. It draws inspiration from the echoes of the past, the vibrancy of the present, and the enigma of the future. It is an expedition that transcends cultural, geographical, and temporal boundaries, seeking to create a universal language that resonates with all who encounter their work. Festival Inspiration: In the realm of sculptural artistry, where stone, metal, and wood are the raw materials of our creative voyage, artmiabo inter...