About Oladimeji Alabi

Oladimeji Alabi premieres this miniature art exhibition series titled 'small is beautiful'. Oladimeji Alabi is a well collected emerging artist who is exhibited and has been featured in a number of prominent places including:

  • NXT ART Lagos 2022

  • Royal Academy London 2021

  • Vogue Germany 2021

  • The Artist Movement: Black Lives Matter 2020

  • ENSAPC: Counter-Histories of a Continent 2019

  • British Council Nigeria 2016

  • Lagos Galerie 2008-2010

He has also worked as a studio assistant at Victor Ehikhamenor Studio and Nike Art Gallery.

Oladimeji is known for his huge paintings styles infusing African fabrics, motifs, and acrylics into this works. For this series, he plays around small sized canvases to evoke mixed emotions in his audience by taking our shared realities into each stroke. They are indeed a marvel to behold.

“My works flows into areas of love, power, politics, gender all along infusing African cultural identity and metaphor, as a mode of archival and sharing these ancient systems with in new forms. ”

— Oladimeji Alabi

Exhibition

small is beautiful. with Oladimeji Alabi is a body of work that takes us on a journey of soul, traditions of men, royalties, today’s reality as African and as black people. The blue hues and gold touches that trascend the paintings highlight the artist’s opinions in subtle, yet, engaging mediums. The female characters portray how women are the backbone of the African society.

The hijab from the self adores series shows the stigmatisation, stereotype & limitations the Northern religious culture puts on its females.
Inspired by the beauty, intelligent and elegant displays of African women in our society.
This artworks discuss discovering yourself, who you are and what you are made of.
The time is now for Justice, equality for women in our society. Also time for the world to be awoken that women have evolved.
This art was inspired and created during the global Pandemic in 2020.
This art was inspired and created during the global Pandemic in 2020.
Beautiful is natural, sparkle it up with some touch of Attitude and colour. Appreciating the nature and natural being of African women.
This phase represents completion, fertility, abundance, and transformation, when the seeds from the new moon come into bloom.
The Golden attire, beaded jewellery, and tribal marks worn by the couple is a reflection of their states of origin, wealth and status.
There is this a local saying "Problem no dey finish", but in these problems, solutions are made.
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Artwork was created during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, depicting the mandatory usage of Face masks.

The complete small is beautiful. digital catalogue

To make this experience truly immersive, we catalogued Oladimeji’s exhibiting body of works, accessible online.

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