A contemporary Nigerian bead artist whose work explores love, identity, and mental health through labor-intensive tactile compositions. Using suspended beads, she transforms decorative materials into expressive surfaces that reflect emotional states and human vulnerability. She has exhibited at the Life in My City Art Festival (LIMCAF) Top 100 National Exhibition (Enugu), the longest-running art festival in Nigeria, and her work has been featured in THISDAY newspaper
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With I hear me, I wanted to capture that quiet, vibrational moment when you finally tune out the noise of the world and listen to your own internal frequency. The figure is not meant to be a static likeness, but a reflection of a soul in a state of listening.
I chose glass beads because of how they hold and release light—they have a clarity and a weight that feels both fragile and permanent. Because they hang on fishing line, the portrait is never truly still; it reacts to the air in the room, mirroring the fluid and ever-changing nature of our thoughts. The rope at the top represents the grounding we need to hold onto ourselves while the rest of our being shimmers and shifts. It is a piece about the beauty of internal alignment and the shimmering complexity of the self