Collection: Osaru Obaseki 🇳🇬

Osaru Obaseki is a self-taught visual artist from Edo state, Nigeria. She is one of the many rising artists in Africa who has carved a niche in the contemporary art Scene. A graduate of the University of Port Harcourt with a B.Sc.Business management degree. She started off her artisticpractice by exploring the flow of acrylic on canvas termed Fluid painting. She is drawn to the co-existence of iconographies and motifs. (Which gives a sense of ancient communication and the inception of languages). In 2017, Osaru joined the Nosona studios under the Edo global platform where she gained tutelage, the opportunity and resources to experiment with other mediums particularly sand which is influenced by the rich cultural heritage of Benin kingdom. In 2018, she was selected to be a part of the prestigious Rele art foundation Young contemporaries and in 2019 exhibited under the Rele gallery, Lagos as a YOUNG COMTEMPORARY 2019. Osaru was selected as one of the Edo based artists for the Re entanglement exhibition, a collaboration between the Cambridge university, London and Nosona studios, an avenue to engage and interrogate the archives of Northcote W. Thomas, a Britishanthropologist who documented the Edo speaking peoplebetween 1909-1910. She was part of the BACK TO BASE workshop which was a collaboration between Goethe institute and Rele art Foundation. In 2021, she was part of the “I AM NOT A GODDESS UNLESS I SAY I AM”, a group exhibition which was a collaboration between Saboart Advisory and Amar Singh gallery. Osaru Obaseki dedicates her time to sculpture and painting while exploring other forms art. Osaru currently creates using sand and acrylic as a way of synergizing two different civilizations _ the ancient and the modern. Also now a postal girl for bronze making, taking the long standing history of bronze casting and its methodology of the lost wax method in creating contemporary forms while highlight modern day issues.