Ije .

Coventry

Ije is a contemporary artist currently living in Rugby, Warwickshire. A British/Nigerian artist-healer with a nomadic art practice using painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and words to express a sensuous exploration of metaphysical and material realities. Despite challenges I am physically and mystically engaged in encounters with landscape, the elements, and my making. I encounter, touch, feel, remember, imagine, and fabricate. My sensuous practice draws on a lifetime of moving. Moving across the UK and beyond exploring landscapes, from wild spaces of mountains and coastlines, to mining and farming communities to industrial towns and cities. Moving with energy, with colour, with rhythms of time. Moving amongst smooth spaces. Photographs/video/audio recordings initially capture glimpses, leading to artworks that are energetic, often textured with inclusions of found/repurposed/manufactured materials. I am a prolific maker, working across several lines of enquiry concurrently; predominantly self-taught, I gained an MA Fine Art in 2016. I am an active Outside In artist, Ambassador and Advisory Board member.