IJE Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Ije (pronounced eejay). An artist-healer exploring metaphysical and material realities expressed through a sensuous, nomadic arts practice. I am a prolific maker, working across several lines of enquiry concurrently; predominantly self-taught, I have an MA Fine Art, an Outside In artist and Ambassador. I encounter, touch, feel, remember, imagine, and fabricate.
A British/Nigerian artist-healer. I have a nomadic art practice using painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and words to express a sensuous exploration of metaphysical and material realities. Despite challenges I am physically engaged in encounters with landscape, the elements, and my making. My sensuous practice draws on a lifetime of moving. Moving across the UK and beyond exploring landscapes, from wild spaces of mountains and coastlines, to mining and farming communities to industrial towns and cities. Moving through, exploring energy transference, rhythms of time and smooth spaces. Photographs, video and audio recordings initially capture glimpses of these, leading on to artworks that are energetic and textured with inclusions of found/repurposed/manufactured materials reflecting the feelings, political resonance, and sensuousness of my encounters.
I am an artist: I am a writer, an explorer, a poet, painter and photographer, a creator and a healer. I am a sculptor, an adventurer, a walker and a runner, a performer, thinker and catalyst. I look towards, I look onto, I look through and on the face of things; I encounter, touch, feel, remember, imagine, and fabricate.
I am a prolific maker, working across several lines of enquiry concurrently; predominantly self-taught, I have a master’s degree in fine art, from Birmingham City University (2016) and am an active Outside In artist and Ambassador, being a member of the Midlands and National Advisory Groups. I won the “Chameleon Arts Prize” in 2019 (Surface Gallery, Nottingham), leading to my first large-scale solo exhibition in 2020. I have artworks in private and corporate collections in the UK, China, France, Ireland and Norway.
I work as a freelance artist / curator and take commissions. I run my own holistic therapies business.
Artwork
PERDURANCE 18: MMIRI MMIRI, hand chained & knotted silicone cord & fishing line, 2020
TTLL 18: PEREGRINATIONS OF THE PRIMAL DAY, Oil and enamel paint, modelling paste and glitter on canvas, 2018
EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH OF THE WORLD: SUMMER MILIEUS, Acrylic paint and mediums, glitter, re-used yarn and plastic on canvas, 2017, £5,185
EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH OF THE WORLD 2 , Acrylic paint, oil marker, re-used velvet, mirrored glass, swarf and plastic on linen, 2018
TORRENT, Acrylic and enamel paint, modelling paste and glitter on canvas, 2014
LISTEN TO THE EARTH SPEAK 2, Acrylic paint and mediums and gold leaf on canvas, 2019, £3175
TOPOGRAPHICAL ENCOUNTERS: WHERE SEA MEETS MOON BLANCH'D LAND 2, acrylic paint, re-used vinyl sheet, swarf and mirrored glass on canvas, 2020, £3,800
ELEMENTS OF WINTER 8, acrylic paint and mediums, salt and mica dust on canvas, 2018
STILL LIFE 1: TRACKS, TRAILS, TREACHERY / STILL LIFE 2: NIMBLE FOOTWORK / STILL LIFE 3: DID I SLIP?, Fine Art direct print on aluminium, 2020
PERDURANCE 19: MOMENTS OF ENTANGLEMENT 2, new/reused hand chained & knotted silicone cord, fishing line and used running shoes, 2021
Projects and exhibitions
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RUGBY OPEN 201923/11/2019 — 11/01/2020 Annual open exhibition for artists across the West Midlands |
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby | Details | |
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ART IS WHY I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING 2nd Edtn01/11/2019 — 03/11/2019 weekend pop up contemporary art and music exhibition for selected artists |
The Line Contemporary Art Space, Mercato Metropolitano, London | Details |
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CHAMELEON CONTEMPORARY COLOUR EXHIBITION04/10/2019 — 19/10/2019 International open exhibition exploring colour in art today. "Chameleon will examine the sheer diversity of the way colour is used in contemporary art practice.... Artworks that examine different methods of presentation are encouraged. We are looking for innovative and informed work, as well as technical skill. This exhibition marks twenty... [Read more] |
Surface Gallery, Nottingham | Details |
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Our eARTh 201824/03/2018 International exhibition of around 100 artists creating contemporary art in response to environmental concerns & the theme of Our Earth. Exhibition 24 March 2018 to 23 December 2018 |
Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke, N Yorkshire | Details |