Monday blues… This beautiful artwork was made by the Lagos-based painter Nengi Omuku, who shuns traditional canvas in favour of sewn-together strips of sanyan, a Nigerian dress fabric made from wild silk. The resulting paintings are “something akin to a contemporary wall hanging, where works are mounted on rods, and the end of the picture plane is extended by the irregular blocks of textile that surrounds it,” notes Holly Black in an interview with Omuku for Elephant. As seen here, “occasionally, the sanyan patterns inform the palette and composition of the picture within in a satisfying fusion of ordered tradition and mysterious, fluid figuration,” Black continues. Click here to read on.
