Bruce Onobrakpeya, Nigeria’s legendary sculptor and painter is guest, this week on CNN’s African Voices Changemakers powered by digital solutions provider, Globacom. The art aficionado will be joined on the programme by 49-year-old Mozambican artist, Lizette Chirrime.
Onobrakpeya who is reputed for his innovative printmaking technology, will be 90 on August 30, 2022 having been born in 1932 in Agbarha-Otor, Delta State. The graduate of Art from the former Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has earned great respect in the comity of artists in and outside Nigeria owing to his immense contributions to the creative industry.
His works, couched from bronzed lino relief and metal foil, currently occupy the walls of the National Gallery of Modern Arts, Lagos. More of his unique creations have also been exhibited in various museums across the world including the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden, the Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art, also in Lagos, Nigeria.
He has received several awards for his rare feats. They include the 2006 Human Living Treasure Award by the United Nations Educational and Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the 44th Venice Biennale, and National Creativity award by Federal Government of Nigeria in 2010.
Chirrime was born in Maputo, Mozambique but is resident in Cape Town, South Africa. Her works focus on historical and autobiographical motifs as she equally creates intricate and large scale textile-driven works on canvas.
She also uses using recycled materials and hides and skin to produce mixed materials through which she propagates messages of hope to the people.
African Voices Changemakers will air on the DSTV channel 401 on Saturday May 7, 2022 at 9.30 a.m. Repeats come on Sunday at 4.30 a.m., 7.30 a.m., 12.30 p.m., and 7.30 p.m. and on Monday at 4.00 a.m. in addition to a two-part 15-minute broadcast of the edition is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday at 6.45 p.m.
