Tonye Ekine’s journey
From scribbling on walls to becoming a multi-disciplinary creative
Tonye Ekine’s earliest memory as an artist is of him scribbling on the walls of his childhood home in Nigeria.
“My mum was the first person to notice me drawing, so she got me a little toy that allowed me to just draw and erase,” the MA Drawing student at Camberwell College of Arts says.
"I think I am a storyteller. I always like to create scenarios that would never exist".
Tonye Ekine is a Nigerian artist who was educated at the Camberwell College of Arts and now resides and works in London.
His work develops immersive, outlandish scenes with an unsettling paradox that speaks to contemporary social problems and conundrums in a post-colonial world.
Eat Work Art SPOTLIGHT: Tonye Ekine
Tonye Ekine is a visual artist who uses the Ife bronze mask to create immersive and unusual scenes that highlight the contradictory nature of contemporary social problems in a post-colonial world.