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Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede was born in Nigeria in 1943. He studied sculpture
with Pa Akerejola in his home town of Ekiti, and then Fine Arts under
Osagie Osifo at Yaba College of Technology.
In 1963, Jegede cam to England for further training in the
decorative arts, interior design, sculpture and bronze-casting, and in
1968 held the first of his many exhibitions at the Woodstock Gallery,
London.
Emmanuel Jegede has interpreted Yoruba culture with perceptible
yet subtle political and idiosyncratic statements. "Art without ideology
is dead" he upholds, yet his ideology defies ready categories. The
traditional forms of his native Nigerian arts are infused with traits
of figurative European modernism.
Emmanuel has worked as artist-in-residence at many colleges,
art centres and schools. In recent years his poems and prose have been
as enthusiastically received as his painting. Emmanuel Jegede, in all
the manifestations of his creativity, presents his interpretation of life
in a myriad of compelling ways. The exhibition shows some aspects of the
energy which reconciles in his work as an artist two dauntingly different
cultures.
He has held over 30 mixed exhibitions and over 18 one man
shows in Nigeria, Britain, Canada, Germany, Ireland and France amongst
other countries. His work is held in public collections in Nigeria, Trinidad,
the UK and Jamaica.
"The power of Emmanuel Jegede's wooden sculpture
and carvings created for the visitors an immediate sense of contact with
age-old African traditions."
Nigeria Observer
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