Born in Nigeria I have lived in South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Spain, Singapore and Japan. The techniques I use were picked up from local crafts and styles I have encountered in this journey. The wire wrapping is distinctively African. The manufactured art work on the soda cans transfers into a never ending colour palette, giving the sculptures a South American aesthetic. Sometime there is a clearly intended re-patched/re-used look, reminiscent of Japanese kintsugi. Other pieces incorporate some twist of humour, often unapologetically British. My first sculpture with soda cans was that of a hand and I since then I have been obsessed with creating the perfect human body. I aim to bring dynamism and emotion into the figures. A combination of classical forms with modern materials has forced innovation
and every sculpture is an exploration built on lessons learnt from the preceding work.