Female
Born in: Benin city (Nigeria) on 6 May 1993.
Currently living: Benin city (Nigeria).
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Osaru Obaseki is a self-taught visual artist from Edo state, Nigeria. she expresses art through painting and sculpture. A graduate of the University of Port Harcourt; majored in Management Sciences.
She started off her artistic practice over the years exploring the use and flow of acrylic and various materials on canvas, these fluid paintings captured her perception towards the atmosphere and colors. She creates life and meaning toward climate change, the revolving planet and how planets can be perceived.
In September 2017 she joined the Nosona studios under the Edo global center platform, where she gained tutelage, the opportunity and the resources to experiment with other materials.There she gained new experiences as an artist and experimented with various mediums in painting and sculpture, she explores and experiments more with sand/acrylic and bronze sculptures which constantly births a lot of new ideas, creativity and techniques.
In October 2018 she was selected as one of the” Young Contemporaries 2019” under the Rele Art Foundation in Lagos, where she did a 4months course with the Foundation after which she exhibited as a Young contemporary in January 2019 at Rele gallery.
In July 2019 she exhibited at the re-entanglement, a collaboration between the Cambridge University and Nosona studios. This exhibition gave her the avenue to engage and interrogate the archives of Northcote .w. Thomas a British anthropologist who documented the Edo speaking people between 1909-1910.
So far, she has worked on various distinctive body of works that has brought an interface between ancient and modern art, which has been influenced greatly by culture, events, history and the need to document experiences.