2025 Press Highlight 🗞️
Ridiculously late post, but still a moment worth sharing. Lagos is overflowing with transformational creative voices, proud that @galleryfresco contributes to the conversation in a special way. Thank you for the lovely feature, @artnews@earthly_gorgeous ✨
Across Nigeria, artist-led spaces, online collectives, and community-run projects are reshaping how art is made, shared, and supported.
This panel looks at how grassroots initiatives are filling the gaps left by traditional institutions, creating room for access, experimentation, and inclusion, and what this shift means for the wider art ecosystem.
How Grassroots Art Initiatives Are Challenging Institutional Exclusion
March 6, 4PM
Ecobank Pan African Centre
Moderator: @papaomotayo
Speakers: @mrphisha , @tola_akerele , @imaekpo
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Ima Ekpo, a digital art curator for +234 Art Fair speaks on the curatorial process, highlighting the diversity of the fair.
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Magical time in South Africa.
@galleryfresco ’s first fair!, caught up with friends, met @falidankomo in person for the first time after 2 years of us working together, met meticulous printmakers making the most stunning prints (all tagged), fantastic food, deep belly laughs, stunning people, and much needed rest at the end. A very late post but i’d be remiss not to document this.
Thankful đź’™
FNB ART 2025 🇿🇦
“Echoes of the In-Between”
Featuring original works by
Falida Nkomo
Fiyin Koko
Sola Olulode
đź“ŤSandton Convention Center, Johannesburg
📆 Sept. 5 - 7, 2025
It’s been a beautiful experience. Thank you for having us, @fnbartjoburg 💙
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#STUCK2025 with my favorite people! We had a time 🔥
Congratulations Nonye & Chuckie!! Wishing you both a lifetime of love & joy ❤️💍 Thankss for the party!
Lagos Island architecture. Very unassuming. Move too fast and you’ll miss it.
Images are from my explorations, including a fantastic Lagos island architecture tour with @lovinglagos and @ajalalagos ✨
The ministry is moving !? Pleased to have curated the prints & posters experience for @plus234art this year, essentially supporting the Digital Art Pavillion as a co-curator.
It means everything to me that I get to champion art patronage in a way that’s accessible & exciting for both artists and art lovers.
@plus234art is important. The fair is platforming independent Nigerian Artists while creating a trusted space for art lovers to collect and commune. Honoured to be a part of the +234 fair story.
Thank you to the talented artists for trusting us!
Thank you to our leader Mrs Tola Akerele (@tola_akerele ) for bringing me on board.
Thank you Toyin (@toyinl ) and Mofe (@mofe_i ) for holding my hand through it all.
Thank you for adding your magic to our amphitheater video in 48 hours 🙏🏽✨ @muhammadtayyyib
Enjoyed co-curating the Pavillion with you, Jojo! @jj_dpm - oh the places you will go!
Grateful for this experience ✨
Took these out of storage to get some sun (had a client visit)
Daëna LaDeesse meets Gbolahan Ayoola. Two of my favorite prints from @galleryfresco ! Both editions explore identity and cross generational transfers.
On a seperate note, excited to be closing out 2024. What a yearrr! Happy survival to me and to those who celebrate 🥲❤️
