catalogue

Selected solo exhibitions

RACE, Didi Museum Lagos, Nigeria, 1998

Winds of Change, Russell Coates Museum & Gallery Bournemouth, Dorset, 1997

RACE, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London, 1996

Winds of Change, 198 Gallery London, 1995

New Work, Worthing Museum West Sussex, 1994

Masks & Motifs, National Museum Lagos, 1988

Selected group exhibitions

Journeys: Africa to the Caribbean, sculptures and paintings by George Fowokan Kelly and Hassan Aliyu, Gallery OCA, Cromwell Place, London, October 2023

Doctorate Showcase Exhibition, University of East London, June 2023

“Cosmic Not Exhibition” @Way.Out.East Gallery March – April 2023

Doctorate Showcase Exhibition, University of East London, June 2022

Legacies of Biafra, Gallery Oldham, October 2021 to February 2022

Doctorate Showcase Exhibition, University of East London, June 2021

UNTITLED (NASUK annual group show), Wodonga Gallery, September 2021

Combat Stress exhibition / auction, Bonhams, London, August 2021

NASUK Summer Exhibition, Wodonga Gallery,  September 2019

Legacies of Biafra, Brunei Gallery, London, January – March 2018

AURORA, (NASUK annual group show) WAC Gallery, London, October 2017

ARIYA, (NASUK annual group show) WAC Gallery, London, October 2016

NASUK Winter Exhibition, WAC Gallery, London, December 2013

Nigeria@100: Transforming a British Experiment?, NASUK annual group show WAC Gallery, London, October 2014

Transforming the Crown – African, Asian, & Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966 – 1996, Bronx Museum, Studio Museum Harlem, Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York, USA, 1998

Anne Bellion Gallery artists, South Kensington London, 1993 – 1998

Yaduza Gallery artists, Westermarkt, Amsterdam | Zaltbommel Netherlands, 1996 – 1999

 

Selected curation

Ben F Jones, “The Bigger Picture”, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning. Co-curated with  Makeda Coaston and Prof. Paul Goodwin, 2022

Nigeria Art Society UK annual exhibitions, 2013 – 2019 

“Winds of Change” Russell Coates Museum & Gallery Bournemouth, 1997

“Untitled”, Norwood Art House, London, 1996

“In Search of a Higher Place” by Raymond Watson, 1996

“In the Spirit”, Ben F Jones, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, 1994

“Beyond My Grandfathers’ Dreams” by George Fowokan Kelly, 1994

“Censored!: From Nigger to Nubian” by Faisal Abdu’Allah, 1993

Curatorial support, Caribbean Crafts Circle, London 1990

 

Selected talks

In conversation with Arthur Timothy during his ongoing solo exhibition, Postcards from a Promised Land at Gallery 1957; SOAS, London, 2022 

In conversation with Hannah Uzor and Glory Samjolly during their exhibition, Painting Our History curated by English Heritage at Africa Centre, London, 2022

In conversation with Ben F Jones, moderated by Prof. Paul Goodwin, 2022 

Speaker, African Studies Association (ASAUK) Biennial Conference, University of Liverpool, 2022

Panelist, Genealogies of Black Curating, British Art Network Annual Conference, moderated by Prof. Paul Goodwin, 2021

Artist presentation, Gallery Oldham, 2021

WOW Presentation, University of Bedfordshire, 2021

Artists in conversation with Chinwe Uwatse, moderated by Dr Louisa Egbunike, 2021

Panelist, Discussing an Exhibition on Slavery with Africa Remembrance Day, 2019

Artists in conversation, with Larry Achiampong, Cultural Compounds Symposium, City, University of London, 2018

Tribute to Okui Enwezor at International Igbo Conference, SOAS, London, 2018

Presenter at No Colour Bar Seminar at Friends of the Hunley Archives at London Metropolitan Archives (FHALMA), London 2018

Discussant at No Colour Bar seminar at Black Cultural Archives, Brixton, London, 2018

Panelist, Imagining Nigeria 2114 moderated by Onyekachi Wambu, 2014

Transforming the Crown Artist Panel, Studio Museum Harlem NY, 1998

Artists in conversation with Eugene Palmer at the launch of Race, Sex & Gender by Edward Lucie-Smith, 1995 

Africa 95 presentation at Courtauld Institute, London, 1995

working on the collage 'Escaping Hell Fire' 240cm X 800cm