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This new body of eight oil paintings, each uniquely realized on the traditional Nigerian textile sanyan, develops Omuku’s vision of painting as a constant and sustaining force in a perpetually changing world. Nengi Omuku: Wild Things and Perennials coincides with the artist’s ongoing solo museum exhibition, The Dance of the People and the Natural World, at Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom.

Omuku’s impressionistic landscapes and distinctive, rich color palettes provide enveloping spaces for the artist’s loosely rendered individual and group portraits. Blending interior and exterior, figure …