Artmiabo

Artist Open Call, Artmiabo International Art Festival AMIAF, 2024. This festival Open call invites only sculptors from everywhere to apply Date: 27th April-1st May, 2024 Location: Ebonylife Place, Victoria Island, Lagos State, Nigeria. Festival Theme: Sculptor's Odyssey Email Submission to: artexhibition@artmiabo.info Exhibition Inspiration: In the realm of sculptural artistry, where stone, metal, and wood are the raw materials of our creative voyage, artmiabo international art festival, 2024, (Amiaf) embarks upon a journey known as the "Sculptor's Odyssey." This artistic odyssey is not merely a physical expedition but a profound exploration of the human spirit, nature, and the limitless bounds of imagination. Like Odysseus navigating through treacherous waters, all, sculptors, navigate through the depths of their minds, seeking to unearth the stories hidden within each medium they touch. Every chisel stroke, every molten pour, and every carving is a testament to the...

 My Plastic Abstract Sculpture    My kids, drink quite a lot of milk and I am not sure, I know the health implications of excessive milk drinking, I just know that milk drinking in my house hold, borders on excessive.  I always put away the empty plastic containers, in the recycling bin.  It occurred to me,  that I could still do another abstract art with milk containers.  It is time consuming and I am busy, but I love a challenge and recycling art happens to be my first love.  It felt right,  to create a simple sculpture piece on wood, with the milk  plastic containers representing the skyline, and  the townships in between. This particular work, took quite a large number of milk containers, with an 8 m x 4 m of real wood board, thanks to my kids love of milk, I was able to finish it.  What you see is my idea of the Joburg skyline, and the townships in the center of it all. I cherished ...