Bunmi Babatunde - Artist Info

About Bunmi Babatunde

  • Biography

    Bunmi Babatunde was born in Nigeria, in 1957. He studied sculpture at the Yaba college of Technology, graduating in 1983. Babatunde has been a practicing studio artist in Yaba since 1984.

    Together with Bisi Fakeye, Monday Akhidue and Abiodun Olaku, he is a founding member of The Universal Studios of Art, Nigeria.

    Omidan, which is the Yoruba word for a young woman or "damsel", is inspired by traditional Yoruba carved sculpture known as Oju Orogbo.

    Babatunde has participated in over twenty-five exhibitions locally and internationally, and has undertaken several major public and private sculpture commissions in Nigeria.http://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9

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