Bunmi Agusto

Dusk at 1033Hz, 2026

Acrylic, ink and coloured pencil on sanded pastel paper

12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm

Bunmi Agusto (b. 1999, Lagos) is a world-builder and storyteller concerned with unseen worlds and their metaphysical architectures. Moving across dreams, folktales, imagined realms, lost civilisations, cosmologies, and theories of the afterlife, she constructs rational systems for what might otherwise appear irrational and maps the hidden mechanics that underlie reality.

In her drawings of her paracosm Within, the interior world becomes a vast repository for everything she encounters in her waking life. She reimagines personal, cultural, and philosophical concerns through the vibrant lens of her identity as a Nigerian woman of Yoruba, Edo, and Afro-Brazilian descent. As a world “in her head,” Within held together by hair, which functions as the underlying nervous system upon which the entire realm is built—an organic architecture forming root-like networks that transmit memory, emotion, and consciousness across its landscape.

She holds an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, an MA in History of Art & Archaeology from SOAS University, and a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Her artworks have been exhibited in Nigeria, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and China. She has curated both historical and contemporary exhibitions as well as consulted for television, theatre and fashion projects. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller and Boy.Brother.Friend. In 2023, Agusto was selected as one of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries. She was also awarded the Mansfield-Ruddock Prize in 2023, the Clarendon Scholarship in 2022 and the Cass Art Prize twice in 2019 and 2020.

Isis Dove-Edwin

Liminal Geographies, 2026

terracotta, underglaze,

glaze

Isis Dove-Edwin

Expressive Boundaries, 2026

terracotta, underglaze, glaze

18 7/8 x 15 x 13 3/8 in
48 x 38 x 34 cm

Isis Dove-edwin is attracted to the infinite potential of clay to hold memory, and express different ideas through materiality, process, and form. She works within a West African ceramic lineage of building pots with rolled coils of terracotta clay. This choice was motivated by the relative absence of such work within the mainstream canon, and to challenge the idea of a fixed African craft tradition. Developing a narrative visual language as a means of storytelling, she intentionally removes function and alters shape through expressive making. Each piece is unique, commanding its own space - on the edge of pot and figure, craft and art, glaze and paint, monument and decoration.

Material investigation and experimentation have taken her narratives of diasporic journeys on to thin sheets of terracotta clay serving as a flat canvas. Here, she continues to explore texture, layering and expressive mark making, while also introducing motif and collage.

She lives in London where she worked as a doctor for many years. After taking a career break to look after her children, she decided to pursue her passion for clay. In 2021 she gained a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Ceramic Design at Central St Martins, followed by an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art.

Babajide Olatunji

Hasanatu in hot pink scarf, 2025

Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper adhered to aluminium backing

83 7/8 x 59 7/8 in
213 x 152 cm

Babajide Olatunji

Portrait of Domkat as a Child, 2024

Pastel, casein and acrylic on primed
canvas

57 1/8 x 39 3/8 in
145 x 100 cm

Babajide Olatunji

Portrait of Domkat as a Young Man, 2024

Pastel, casein and acrylic on primed canvas

57 1/8 x 39 3/8 in
145 x 100 cm

With a bachelor’s degree in botany from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Babajide Olatunji (b. 1989) is a self-taught, full-time studio artist. In over ten years of full time studio practice, Olatunji has shown in multiple cities globally and works from his many ongoing projects have been incredibly well received.

His paintings have been acquired by the Mott-Warsh Collection in Michigan, the Bank of England Museum, UK, The Elgiz Museum, Instanbul as well as important private collections in Switzerland, London, Lagos, Riyadh and New York; including the private collection of his highness, King Mohammed VI of Morocco.

In 2017 Olatunji was selected for inclusion in a curated section of the Royal Academy Summer Show in the UK, and in 2020 he completed a six week residency at the Bridge Point Arts Centre in Hastings U.K. Olatunji recently had a large scale painting from his History of the Yoruba series unveiled at the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos, Nigeria.

Yinka Shonibare CBE

Hybrid Mask (Bamana) II, 2023, 2023

Hand carved painted wood and brass

15 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/2 in
40 x 20 x 19 cm

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962) lives in London, UK and studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1989) before receiving his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (1991).

His interdisciplinary practice uses citations of Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities withinthe context of globalisation. Through examining race, class and the constructionof cultural identity, his works comment on the tangled interrelationship betweenAfrica and Europe, and their respective economic and political histories.

In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2008, his mid-career survey began at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, travelling in 2009 to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Museum of African Art at the SmithsonianInstitute, Washington D.C. In 2013, he was elected a Royal Academician and wasawarded the honour of ‘Commander of the Order of the British Empire’ in 2019.His installation ‘The British Library’ was acquired by Tate in 2019 and is currentlyon display at Tate Modern.

Shonibare’s works are in notable museum collections internationally, including the Tate Collection, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; National Gallery.