The Pleasance is proud to present a different exhibition each month. This month we have Eni Bankole-Race whose work, Roadside Art , will be showing until the middle of April. Please enjoy!

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Eni Bankole-Race is a textile artist and designer who has had a lifelong love affair with craft, cloth and colour.

Coming from a family of sculptors and potters, her earliest memories include observing her stepmother’s traditional indigo dyers and watching her great-aunts making pottery in the family compound in the village of Isan-Ekiti, renown for its individual pottery.

She has also a great love for the ‘local’ art which abounds in her country of origin – Nigeria.
This exhibition titled ‘Roadside Art’ features many of the artworks that she has collected and commissioned over the last few years.

Ranging from works by recognised and even celebrated artists such as B. Lawson, to unknown roadside shack painters who display their art along the footpaths and pavements of Lagos, these works appear infused with the vibrancy of this most electric of cities.
Also on display are two exquisite beaten metal plaques, among the last works made by the late master metalworker Pa Adeleke of Osogbo, created in his ninetieth year.
The hauntingly evocative masks are authentic antiques, previously used for ceremonial and religious purposes, and are from all over the African continent.

Eni is the founder of Maverick (www.maverickdesigns.co.uk), a design company with an ethos of using traditional African resources and techniques to create contemporary objects of beauty.