Growing up as a child, Emmanuel Eweje was influenced by his mum’s profession which is weaving and crocheting in the early 90s. He was immersed in the general mindset then that the creative arts were more of a hobbyist’s diversion than a career path for the serious-minded person. The very few artists he knew as a child worked at roadside craft shops, cranking out cheap signboards, banners and posters while barely able to earn a decent living.
Yet, he spent more of my early life helping his mum in her weaving works and sketching objects around me However, when it was time for him to choose an undergraduate program, he dithered between the disciplines of Engineering and Fine Arts. Still haunted by the “poor artist”image from his childhood, he figured that becoming an engineer would make him more recognized professionally, able to afford a comfortable lifestyle.
On the other hand, having experienced a preview of what Engineering is via a brief stint studying Technical Drawing as a high school subject, he decided that engineering was too structured for him as a creative being that had grown to value the freedom of artistic expression. In the end, fueled by his primal inclination towards what he considered “the pure art”, he opted for Fine art as a course. His artistic journey began to pay off after he bagged a second class(upper) Bachelor of Arts(B.A) degree in Fine Arts(Textile art) from the Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile-Ife in 2016.
In the same year that he obtained my college degree, he joined Mufu Onifade’s increasingly-popular visual arts movement tagged “Araism art movement”. He derived his own signature by using thread as his medium of expression rather than the conventional use of acrylic. He also employ the use of Yoruba motifs to symbolically communicate to the viewer.
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Growing up as a child, Emmanuel Eweje was influenced by his mum’s profession which is weaving and crocheting in the early 90s. He was immersed in the general mindset then that the creative arts were more of a hobbyist’s diversion than a career path for the serious-minded person. The very few artists he knew as a child worked at roadside craft shops, cranking out cheap signboards, banners and posters while barely able to earn a decent living.
Yet, he spent more of my early life helping his mum in her weaving works and sketching objects around me However, when it was time for him to choose an undergraduate program, he dithered between the disciplines of Engineering and Fine Arts. Still haunted by the “poor artist”image from his childhood, he figured that becoming an engineer would make him more recognized professionally, able to afford a comfortable lifestyle.
On the other hand, having experienced a preview of what Engineering is via a brief stint studying Technical Drawing as a high school subject, he decided that engineering was too structured for him as a creative being that had grown to value the freedom of artistic expression. In the end, fueled by his primal inclination towards what he considered “the pure art”, he opted for Fine art as a course. His artistic journey began to pay off after he bagged a second class(upper) Bachelor of Arts(B.A) degree in Fine Arts(Textile art) from the Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile-Ife in 2016.
In the same year that he obtained my college degree, he joined Mufu Onifade’s increasingly-popular visual arts movement tagged “Araism art movement”. He derived his own signature by using thread as his medium of expression rather than the conventional use of acrylic. He also employ the use of Yoruba motifs to symbolically communicate to the viewer.
