The exhibition is the third chapter of a three-part exhibition series, The New Nsukka School, which re-examines the conceptual and material practices that characterize the art department at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Ozioma Onuzulike often explores the aesthetic, symbolic and metaphorical nature of clay (his basic material) and the clay-working processes – pounding, crushing, hammering, wedging, grinding, cutting, pinching, punching, perforating, burning, firing – in his making of the multiple units that characterise his mixed-media projects.

His recent work has been inspired by the aesthetic and conceptual force held by such natural resources as yam tubers, palm kernel shells and honeycombs which he mass-produces in terracotta and weaves together in often laborious processes.

For further information at the kó art gallery website.