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Ruth Ige (born 1992) is a Nigerian-born painter based in Auckland, New Zealand. Her work was part of the major group exhibition Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in 2024. She has been part of multiple solo and group exhibitions, notably participating in multiple international exhibitions.

Background

Ige is of Yoruba descent on her father's side and Igbo descent on her mother's side. In 2016, she graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Auckland University of Technology. One year after graduating, in 2017 she participated in her first group exhibition at Artspace in Auckland.

Art

Ige draws on the dramatic, regal and elegant precolonial and present-day Nigerian fashion as her main inspiration for her painting, noting that Nigerian cultural clothing is a work of art in itself. It is important for her to display African culture through a contemporary lens, exhibiting the traditional, contemporary, and futuristic aspects in her works. As such, her works, while rooted in history and the present, also explore future imaginings. The figures often existent in her paintings interchangeably shift between history and fiction, familiar and fantastical, familiar and otherworldly. As such, Ige aims for her works to be difficult to write off and stereotype due to their abstract, mysterious qualities, creating narratives within her paintings that are enigmatic and unexpected.

Her works usually combine blue and black change elaborate later

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