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    DIKE, Ndidi

    Ceramicist, Painter, Sculptor, Textile Artist Address: PO Box 51866, Ikoyi Post Office, Falomo, Lagos. Birth: June 16, 1960, in London. Training: Diploma in music education, University of Nigeria, 1981; BA in fine arts, University of Nigeria, 1984, specializing in painting. Profile: Full name, Ndidi Onyemaechi Dike; freelance artist, from 1984; participated in several seminars, symposia and workshops on Nigerian culture and women in the arts, 1989-1990; works in mixed media, combining painting and sculpture, using power tools on wood; her multi-media usage includes leather, beads, and sand. Member: African-American Museums Association, Washington, DC; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions "Mixed Media Expose '86," Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri, June 22-27, 1986. "Explorations into Nature," Goethe Institute, Lagos, July 1-31, 1987. "Rhythms in Wood," National Museum, Lagos, October 18-30, 1988. "Form in Festivit

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    After spending her early years in London, Ndidi Dike relocated to Nigeria. There she completed her degree in Fine Arts at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka in 1984, studying under some of the country’s leading modern artists including Uche Okeke (1933-2016) and Obiora Udechukwu (born in 1946). Although she studied painting, it was her transgressive work as a self-taught sculptor – a domain then conventionally reserved for male artists – that won her early acclaim. Much of N. Dike’s early work took the form of intricate wood relief assemblages characterised bygd curvilinear lines and symbols carved with industrial power tools and embellished with burning techniques. Works like Ikenga (1993), included in the seminal 1995 exhibition Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa at the Whitechapel Art galleri in London, drew on influences including Igbo spiritual practices and design traditions such as uli. Through her imaginative embrace of quotidian though historically

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    Ndidi Dike

    Nigerian artist

    Ndidi Dikepronunciationⓘ was born in 1960 in London. She is a Nigeria-based visual artist working in sculpture and mixed-media painting. She is one of Nigeria's leading female artists, working in an artistic world typically designed for men.[1] She is from Amaokwe Item in Bende local government of Abia State. She has three living sisters [2]

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    Ndidi Dike first became interested in art as a very young child taking art classes in primary school. She completed her secondary education in England, and further explored her creativity in interdisciplinary art classes. "I loved the sense of freedom of interpretation, of exploring different media and I always felt a sense of peace during creative processes and so existed in a world of my own."[3]

    She graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), located in Enugu State, southeastern region of Nigeria with a Diploma in Music Education (voice), followe