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59 Contemporary & Modern SOGAL Art Auction
This recent work made with
DAUDA 18,600 Red, Yellow, Blue, Black
and white sprayed cotton buds
MOHAMMED on drilled wood depicts a lady
with her hands hanging on her
cheeks looking sober, depressed
and rejected is inspired by the
crisis in the North Eastern Nige-
was born in Jos, Nigeria in 1974, holds a ria and other places in the world
degree in Biochemistry from university that are currently experiencing
of Ilorin; he also earned a certificate in crisis and unrest, in situation
Graphics and 3d Animation from Aptech like this women and children are
worst hit, women becomes vic-
(Arena Multimedia). Dauda is a self-taught tim of assault, rape e.t.c famine
artist who spent a period of 12 years in the will set in with children also out
banking industry before leaving in 2015 of school. It becomes worrisome
to concentrate on what he loves and have for the women who are now
mostly widows as a result of the
passion for. He works in a variety of media crisis this is exactly what this
including painting and drawing with acrylic work depicts.
and oil paints, until recently when he focus
on using 3dimensional objects like cotton
buds, pushpins, screw, Nails, Bottle tops,
Drilling on woods and plastics to make LOT 82
amazing artworks, his work combines
creativity along with hours of diligent Her eyes are full of
application using some computer graphic words, 2018
applications and Photoshop he break an Mixed Media
image down to a very low resolution and (W64 x H84) 25 x 33 in.
forces the computer to make the image out
of only five colors (red, blue, yellow, black Signed and Dated
and white), then uses a grid map to show (Lower Edge)
where to stick the object row by row. At N600,000 - N800,000
first glance, the artwork appears to be a
low-resolution portrait, but upon closer inspection, onlookers can see each piece is made up of thousands of colored
objects. Dauda drew his inspiration from the love he has for Pointillism, Mosaics and 3D art.

OSIO
DIAFE

A graduate of creative arts (Visual major)
from the University of Lagos. Born Oct
21, in Delta State Nigeria. Everyday
people, moods,emotions,poses and
movements are his sources of inspiration.
Life in general has a rhythm. “I stay true
and simple to my art expressing these
rhythms,emotions and life’s simplicities
on canvas”.

LOT 83
Untitled, 2018
Oil on Board
(W120 x H120) 47 x 47 in.
Signed and Dated (Lower Right)
N600,000 - N700,000