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✨ T H E R O P E M A N ✨ @bws.gallery 🌱 Saheed Adelakun Masked Beauty Series (Yellow), 2022 Acrylic and rope on handmade wooden platform 22 x 18 inches @adelakun_olokun ✨ Saheed Adelakun (b. 1982) is a native of Ayetoro in the Ogun state of Nigeria, where he had his primary and secondary school education before going on to study a major in painting at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. He was honored with the Koko foundation scholarship for Outstanding talent through the completion of his HND degree as well as the overall best student of painting in 2009. He has been a full-time studio artist, with an appearance recognition as an Emerging artist in 2015 at the annual October rain exhibition of the Society of Nigeria Artist, Lagos Chapter. Several of his works have been featured in group exhibitions and collected by notable galleries and collectors both in Nigeria and abroad. His works reveal the synthesis that can be formulated from historical indigenous identity, culture and traditions without the exaltation of dehumanizing practices. #SaheedAdelakun #Lagos #Nigeria #Acrylic #Rope #Handmade #BeUnique #BeDifferent #BlackArt #RobertFrost #RoadLessTraveled #Poetry #Art #BlackIsBeautiful #BlackPainters #KerryJamesMarshall #FigurativeArt #ArtificialRealism #Flowers #Blackness #London #UK #Surrealism #Plants (at Beverly Hills, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck_h9pkPk_h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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