With joy in my heart, I’m proud to announce my collaboration with Adidas - “ROOTED & REIMAGINED”
Each art piece is rooted in my all round experience of Lagos, the colors, people, constant movement, and diversity. My way of representing the city that raised me, while merging its vibrant chaos, culture, and soul with the visual rhythm of Adidas
Honored to be the first fine art photographer to collaborate with Adidas in the Motherland.
Big love and deep gratitude to @osengwa and especially @samthesunchild for trusting the vision, and creating the space for this to happen. And to @adidas for choosing culture over trend.
This is history.
Adidas LERA, Lekki now housing works of Mayowa Lawal in Lagos NG.
#mayowalawal #adidas #shotoniphone #RootedAndReimagined @brotherslaweee
Print shop updated.
New Limited Editions & Original works are now available worldwide for acquisition via the link in bio.
A lot has been happening quietly behind the scenes lately.
Next stop: RMB Latitudes in Jo’burg 🇿🇦
Also currently developing my new wallpaper collection alongside a range of product adaptations I’ll be unveiling through 2026.
Grateful for the growth, the support, and the journey so far.
#feelinggrateful
My works have been selected as part of Nigeria Focus at RMB Latitudes 2026. A cross-continental exhibition connecting Lagos and Johannesburg.
Opened on the 15th, and the atmosphere was everything it should have been. Grateful to have been present, and to have had my works in that room. Gratitude to Boitumelo Makousu, Yenwa Gallery and Ugonna Ibe
Johannesburg is next — 22–24 May 2026 at Shepstone Gardens.
#RMBLatitudes #ContemporaryArt #artexhibition
What does it mean to be a FIGHTER?
Is it resistance, survival, endurance, or the refusal to stop?
What are you fighting for?
What have you survived quietly?
What part of yourself had to grow in order to continue?
- A story by Mayowa Lawal, layered in Ankara fabric, a symbol of West African fashion & textile identity.
Enquire ✉️
If what I have is not enough, I will become more.
To survive in this new world, you learn to fight more than one battle at once, even when it begins to tear you apart.
The Fighter’s Journey series, shot on iPhone by me.
- A story by Mayowa Lawal, layered in Ankara fabric, a symbol of West African fashion & textile identity.
IJAKADI - Wrestling in the dancing light
The Fighter’s Journey series, shot on my @apple iPhone
A limited edition of prints is now available on my website worldwide. Link in bio.
- A story by Mayowa Lawal, layered in Ankara fabric, a symbol of West African fashion & textile identity.
#boxing #art #wrestling
My New Art - Gidigbo
Highlighting the elegance hidden within daily life battles where each motion mirrors a piece of life, the measured steps like navigating pressure, the forceful clashes like confronting challenges head-on, the balance and shifts like adapting to what comes your way, and the constant push and resistance like holding your ground in the face of it all.
The Fighter’s Journey series, 2026
Shot on iPhone @apple
- A story layered in Ankara fabric, a symbol of West African fashion & textile identity.
I’ve been thinking about how none of us arrive fully formed.
We move through life gathering moments, losses, names we were given, names we gave ourselves. And somewhere in the middle of all that gathering, we pause. We sit with what we’ve collected and ask, quietly: is this me yet?
I don’t think the answer ever fully comes. I think that’s the point. The Formless Ones is about that pause. That in-between place where identity isn’t lost, but isn’t finished either.
Where a person can hold everything they are, all at once and still be mid-sentence.
Title: She Who Was Before She Was Named
Before We Became - The Formless Ones.
A series of photographic works that questions what it means to become. It looks at identity not as something complete, but as something constantly shaped, un-shaped, and re-imagined.
I borrow from the Yoruba creation myth of Obatala, who molded human figures from clay before they received breath, using that story as a way to talk about transformation, how we are always halfway between spirit and substance.
The blank irregularly shaped garment represents clay shells. Neutral, unfinished forms, while the fabrics as a backdrop pulse with ancestral memory. The contrast creates a bridge: tradition meets technology, the past collides with what’s still forming.
Joy is coming.
Don’t try too hard. You’re not performing anything or for anyone. Just let the joy sit on your face like it belongs there.
- A story layered in ‘Ankara’ fabric, a symbol of Pan African textile identity, photographed by Mayowa Lawal.
OSUSU - The Thrift Collector
A visual story about a person who represents a lived system built on closeness, on faith earned daily, on contribution that feels purposeful because the return is shared.
