Aghogho Otega (b.1994) is a multidisciplinary artist and photojournalist focused on ideology and beliefs of Igbe, an African traditional religion using video, performance, and photography in creating rituals as a means towards the sacredness of oneself. Working at the intersection between spirituality and physicality, his practice begins with, according to the artist, “the emptiness of my mind and entry into a trance state where body movement and gestures serve as a medium to meet one's higher self”. Despite using his body as the primary material of his work, Otega’s practice is also interested in the sacredness of natural and artificial everyday objects and elements as well as the various ways the human body dialogue with the physical world.

David Otaru (b.1991) is a self-taught artist from Edo state, Nigeria. He holds a degree in English and Literature Education from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Combining several mediums, Otaru’s work depicts dynamic, yet recognisable scenes populated with figures caught in random moments of their daily lives. His work incorporates the use of metaphors and familiar imagery in telling multi-layered stories of everyday life, socio- economic conditions and societal structures. Exploring the use of the negative image in his work, the artist considers the growing relationship between art and technology in contemporary society.

David Otaru lives and works in Lagos.

Exploring the interaction between traditional painting medium and alternative material, Micheal Igwe’s paintings employ the fluidity of form in engaging the grotesque, seamless and unsteady nature of human experience and memory. His paintings employ multi-layered narratives that reference and depict people he encounters, speaking to a broader collective experience, however, they are intimately rooted in personal experiences and identity politics that the artist refers to the paintings as ‘self portraits’.

Born in 1994, Micheal Igwe holds a B.A degree from the University of Benin, Nigeria with a major in Painting.

He lives and works between Port-Harcourt and Lagos, Nigeria.

IyunOla Sanyaolu is (b.1998) a graduate of the University of Lagos where she had her B.A in painting from the Department of Creative Arts. Working primarily with the oil medium, her work centers around an enduring exploration of texture and a layered build-up of form through the use of the impasto technique. Presenting picturesque scenes that merge the abstract with the figurative, Sanyaolu eschews the realistic for the emotive, echoing her belief in the therapeutic qualities of art.

IyunOla Sanyaolu is a 2019/2020 Arts in Medicine (AIM) Fellow. She lives and works in Lagos.

Rachel Seidu (b.1997) is a photographer based in

Lagos who is particularly interested in exploring diverse stories and realities through documentary and portrait photography. Her practice involves a shifting exploration of and experimentation with shadows, contrast, double exposure and natural lighting. Seidu’s affective images reflect on sexuality, human existence and duality, gender relations, fragility and the sacred. She is also focused on engaging and celebrating the multiplicity of Nigerian and African experiences beyond monolithic and oppressive Western approaches and sensibilities.

Rachel Seidu was part of photographers presented at the Moment in History exhibition to commemorate world Photography day in 2020. She is currently a Fine and Applied Arts Education undergraduate at the University of Benin, Nigeria. She lives and works between Benin and Lagos, Nigeria.

Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro (b.1990) is a visual artist of Nigerian, British and Sudanese lineage based in Lagos. She holds a B.A in Business and Fine Art from Linfield University, Oregon. Working between the abstract and the figurative, Coleman-Pinheiro’s works catalogue

her constant battles with anxiety; with a goal to drive conversation on our understanding and view of mental health in contemporary society. Her work seeks to give material form to the intangible and offers shape to things that can only be felt. Her pieces take her viewers on a journey through a mind dealing with a mental disorder.

Coleman-Pinheiro’s highly codified and conceptual imagery seeks to connect her viewers to the universality of her experiences. She lives and works in Lagos.

Born in 2000 in Ogun state, Nigeria, Victor Olaoye holds

a BA.Ed in Fine and Applied Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University (ACE, Ondo). Working across charcoal, acrylic and dye mediums, his practice examines the relationship and transferred energies between the human body

and worn clothing. Situated against brightly coloured backgrounds, Olaoye figures feature intricately detailed clothing draped around formless bodies whose presence is merely hinted at by loosely defined outlines. This intentional erasure of the body in favour of clothing raises questions around the politics of clothing and its role in the construction of identity.

Victor Olaoye lives and works in Ogun state, Nigeria.