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Arts Own Kind

A  touring exhibition of the very best and rarely seen works of album cover legend Lemi Ghariokwu.

Punch Records have come into possession of the Lemi Ghariokwu archive and have taken the unique opportunity to set up a touring exhibition of the very best and rarely seen works of the Nigerian artist.

Travelling throughout the UK, this new exhibition has a changing, modular and interactive aspect to it, encouraging people to interact and communicate in order to gain a deeper understanding of Lemi’s development as an artist and of the themes his work approached.

Lemi Ghariokwu is the creator and illustrator of Afrobeat’s legend Fela Kuti iconic album sleeves, which represent African artistic benchmarks as well as political statements of the Nigerian musician orginating from Lagos.

Check out the video from Wahala below:

 

After a successful run at Rich Mix (London) and Birmingham Central Library the exhibition continued on to Peepul Centre in Leicester and is now taking bookings from further venues for 2010 onwards.

The guys at Folded Wing have produced an excellent podcast to support our Lemi Ghariokwu exhibition. Featuring Tony Allen, Dele Somimi, Charlie Dark, Wunmi and many others.  Listen to it below:

AOKPodcast by punchrecords  

We  also appointed a dedicated blogger to keep you updated with all the latest developments in this project. Through the blog we aim to inspire stories, comments and feedback so please get involved and visit the blog here.

Below are a few photos of how the exhibition looked at the Peepul Centre in Leicester:

For more information on Arts Own Kind please contact Ammo on 0121 224 7444.