Olu amoda biography for kids

OLU AMODA

“I have the opportunity to forge alliance with the materials. I hear what they speak to me. I then try to convert people to see these objects in a different light.” Olu Amoda 

Olu Amoda is an internationally celebrated Nigerian sculptor, muralist, furniture designer, and multi-media artist whose iconic work using repurposed materials and metal expresses the very best of modern African sensibility.

Amoda was born in Warri in the Niger Delta in 1959 to his father, a goldsmith, with whom there seems to be evidence of some subtle interdependence of a ‘flaming’ strength drawn from the sole element of consanguinity apparent in the art of both father and son. 

Sculptor and mixed media artist, he has aided in shifting the narrative in the Nigerian art scene with his clever manipulation of discarded materials. 

Conducting excursions to old building sites in search for rusty nails, metal plates, bolts, pipes and rods, he intentionally welds them together to