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Tia Coker Tia Coker is a British Nigerian artist based in Essex whose practice centres on hair as sculpture, drawing, and cultural memory. Working with synthetic hair, wire, and beads, she transforms braiding traditions into three-dimensional forms that honour Black identity and heritage. Viewing the head as sacred space, Coker explores hair as a vessel of history, resilience, and political expression. Influenced by childhood memories of women styling hair within community spaces, her installations reflect protection, beauty, and belonging. Through ongoing projects such as Hair, she documents the evolution of Afro hair from childhood to adulthood, framing braids not simply as style, but as art and ancestral connection. The First Mother — Becoming Again, 2026 Synthetic hair , korra beads & metal Ada Synthetic hair The First Mother — Becoming Again, 2026 Synthetic hair Ngozika Synthetic hair The First Mother — Becoming Again, 2026 Synthetic hair Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Baaba Sarpong Baaba Sarpong is a Ghanaian visual artist based in Accra whose work is shaped by personal experience and emotional memory. Drawing from childhood trauma and household instability, she creates expressive figurative paintings layered with organic tones and recurring motifs such as brain cells. Working primarily with traditional painting techniques, she explores themes of femininity, mental health, and parental neglect, examining how early experiences shape identity. By titling her works in Effutu, her native language, Sarpong reinforces cultural value and individuality. Her practice invites reflection, encouraging viewers to confront vulnerability while considering healing as an act of strength and self-definition. Untitled Acrylic and Oil Pastels on Canvas Maaw) Ewuso (I’m going home) Acrylic and Oil Pastels on Canvas Amob) Wonkankyi (Divine Presence) Acrylic and Oil Pastels on Canvas Untitled Acrylic and Oil Pastels on Canvas Aba na Baaba (Aba and Baaba) Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Boluwatife Victoria Lawal Boluwatife Victoria Lawal is a Nigerian artist whose paintings explore ideas of connection, identity and emotion through layered portraits filled with movement and flow. Working primarily with oil and acrylic, she blends colours and forms to express both resilience and tenderness. Hair often appears as a visual thread linking her subjects, symbolising strength, unity and shared experience. Her practice reflects an interest in how people relate to one another and how collective identity is built through intimacy, culture and the quiet power of presence. Alloy of companion II Acrylic on canvas Healing Embrace, 2024 Acrylic on canvas SWEET STRANGERS CHILLING IN SUMMER II Acrylic on canvas Dear Sister 2, 2022 Acrylic on canvas Symbiosis, 2022 Acrylic on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Olamide Ayomipo Adesola Olamide Ayomipo Adesola, is a Nigerian artist whose work centres on figurative expressions that reflect her environmental beliefs and cultural ties to the Black race. Through vibrant colours and nuanced facial expressions, her paintings celebrate and amplify the experiences of Black women, shedding light on their resilience, sacrifices, and struggles. Olamide’s art is deeply rooted in African culture and personal experiences, serving as a journal to connect with a broad audience, particularly women. Using oil and acrylic paints, she crafts striking compositions that challenge societal norms, aiming to inspire advocacy for positive change and deeper understanding. The African Child, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas After fall, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas Focus, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas NO WOMAN, NO CRY!, 2022 Oil and acrylic on canvas The Human and her White Halo, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Gideon Niikoi Kotey (Deon Art) Gideon Niikoi Kotey, also known as Deon Art, is a Ghanaian artist whose figurative portraits and landscapes are rooted in cultural identity and tradition. Based in Accra, his work draws on scenes from everyday life and the rich visual language of African heritage. Raised in a creative home with early guidance from his father, Kotey’s practice centres on honouring and preserving African customs, particularly through depictions of attire, rituals and symbolism unique to different tribes. His paintings aim to reconnect viewers with a sense of cultural pride while offering insight into stories that words alone cannot express. Each work invites reflection on the continuity between past and present, blending storytelling and symbolism to capture the spirit of African people and traditions. SISA WADWEN NA WO MM)DENBO NSISA, 2025 Acrylic, photo transfer, fabric transfer, oil paint, charcoal, ink and fabric on canvas I Pledge as an African Oil paint, Acrylic, fabric transfers, and photo transfer on canvas OBAA YAA, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Nea mabusua b3di nti, 2025 Acrylic, oil, charcoal, African print fabric and photo transfers on canvas Can I also call myself Black? 2025 Acrylic, oil paint and fabric transfers Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Chidimma Urunwa Chidimma Urunwa, is a Nigerian artist based in Manchester whose paintings unravel layered narratives of womanhood, identity and transformation. Working primarily with oil and mixed media, she blends figuration, symbolism and botanical imagery to create works that balance vulnerability with strength. Her practice is rooted in memory and personal history, drawing from Igbo traditions, myth, and lived experiences of displacement and resilience. Colour carries emotional weight in her work, with rich hues and textured surfaces conveying silence, healing and the shifting states of the inner world. Through her art, Urunwa challenges conventional perceptions of femininity and offers space for reflection on the resilience of women. THE BURDEN OF BALANCE Untitled Oil on Canvas IMUGHARİ OZO Oil on Canvas WHEN THE gods WERE WOMEN Oil on Canvas IN THE BEGINNING SHE WAS THE SOIL Oil on Canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Yvadney Davis Yvadney Davis is a British Caribbean artist whose practice centres on memory, home and the lived experience of the Caribbean diaspora in the UK. Returning to painting during the pandemic, she found the process both meditative and grounding, allowing mark-making to become a way of holding emotion and history. Her work draws deeply from family narratives, particularly the Windrush generation, transforming domestic details such as wallpaper, pattern and ornament into visual archives of belonging. Through painting and collage, Davis captures everyday moments, inherited stories and collective memory, creating spaces where personal history becomes shared experience and where overlooked lives are made visible with tenderness and care. She Wore the Islands, 2025 Mixed Media Inset Day, 2025 Mixed Media Sorrow, SE22, 2025 Mixed Media Afternoon Down East Street Market, 2025 Mixed Media This Is My Little Boy, 2024 Mixed Media Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Daniel Onguene Alexis Daniel Onguene Tassi, is a Cameroonian artist whose realist paintings capture the struggles and resilience of everyday life in Africa’s urban spaces. Through bold colour and figurative detail, he portrays individuals engaged in informal work, reflecting on themes of urbanisation, economic displacement, and survival. Food, agriculture, and post-colonial realities feature strongly in his work, highlighting the complex ties between history and contemporary society. His work draws directly from lived experiences in Bafoussam, Douala, and Nkongsamba, regions marked by shifting economic conditions and urban growth. Sur les traces de FOTSO, 2022 Acrylic on canvas Stéphanie à la gare ancienne SOTUC, 2023 Acrylic on canvas On reste debout, 2024 Acrylic on canvas Les trésors de la haute vallée, 2024 Acrylic on canvas Passage de balais, 2020 Acrylic on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >