Artist Statement & Biography
Statement
My work is a form of stewardship: honouring land, memory, and spirit. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, I create immersive, multi-sensory experiences that explore ecology, transformation, and collective healing. Rooted in cultural memory and mindful engagement, my practice becomes both vessel and offering—preserving heritage, inviting dialogue, and tending to the interconnectedness of all life.
Biography
Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero, known professionally as Stacey Ravvero, is a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural practitioner whose work spans painting, metal sculpture, poetry, film, and performance. Rooted in research and reflective practice, she explores environmental consciousness, human experience, and collective healing through immersive, multi-sensory works.
A graduate of the University of Lagos with a master’s in Art History and the Business of Contemporary Art from the University of Warwick, Ravvero draws from ecology, visual culture, and embodied knowledge—often engaging with “eco-liminal” spaces where memory, nature, and self meet. Her 2022 Berlin performance Ókakò r’Évu (Plant Womb)explored the healing symbolism of plant life.
She is the founder of Atelier Stacey Ravvero, a Lagos-based studio housing The Phoenix, a metal lab, and a permaculture garden. Her community-based projects—such as Une r’Ekpè (Song of the Soil) at the Goethe-Institut Lagos and The Earth Remembers at Alliance Française Lagos—emphasize participatory, environmental engagement.
Ravvero’s work fuses art, scholarship, and activism, positioning her as a vital voice in conversations on art and sustainability. Her pieces are held in collections worldwide.
Educational Background
Educational Background
Educational Background
• M.A. History and Business of the Contemporary Art Market, University of Warwick
• P.G.Dip Institut d’Études Supérieur des Arts Paris
• B.A. Visual Arts, University of Lagos
Medium
Educational Background
Educational Background
My work is a form of stewardship: honouring land, memory, and spirit. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, I create immersive, multi-sensory experiences that explore ecology, transformation, and collective healing. Rooted in cultural memory and mindful engagement, my practice becomes both vessel and offering—preserv
My work is a form of stewardship: honouring land, memory, and spirit. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, I create immersive, multi-sensory experiences that explore ecology, transformation, and collective healing. Rooted in cultural memory and mindful engagement, my practice becomes both vessel and offering—preserving heritage, inviting dialogue, and tending to the interconnectedness of all life.
My Inspiration
Educational Background
My Inspiration
I enjoy basking in mundane experiences and moving mindfully through life & nature. I absorb the socio-cultural climate I'm immersed in and enjoy how it manifests in my work. I'm particularly drawn to advocacy, so my artistic practice advocates environmental and socio-cultural issues.
Leave the Leaves performance installation at Savvy Contemporary Berlin 2022
Leave the Leaves performance installation at Savvy Contemporary Berlin 2022
Leave the leaves performance advocates for regenerative climate action, while raising awareness on the Nigerian flooding crisis in 2022.
The goal of the performance was to sensitize the public on the repercussions of our actions against the environment, with focus on the intersection between deforestation and flooding, through artistic intervention.
Ókakò r’Évu (plant womb) ZKU Berlin 2022
Leave the Leaves performance installation at Savvy Contemporary Berlin 2022
Immersive multi-sensory art installation and environmental intervention
The Secret of the Soil —National Museum Lagos
The Secret of the Soil —National Museum Lagos
A body of work that advocates environmental awareness with focus on planting trees, plant propagation and soil topography, through multidisciplinary pedagogy.
Additionally, Let the Poor Breathe installation highlights the inflation of asthma inhalers in Lagos.
Catharsis — Accra
Catharsis — ICA Biennial Iwaya, Lagos
The Secret of the Soil —National Museum Lagos
An immersive performance installation that draws on the four elements as a catalyst for releasing and cleansing stagnant emotion in context of the historic site -Ussher Fort.
Catharsis — ICA Biennial Iwaya, Lagos
Catharsis — ICA Biennial Iwaya, Lagos
Catharsis — ICA Biennial Iwaya, Lagos
As part of the Iwaya Community Art Biennial, this performance installation creates a sanctuary and safe space for the residents of the community to cleanse and experience Catharsis.
Breathe
Catharsis — ICA Biennial Iwaya, Lagos
Catharsis — ICA Biennial Iwaya, Lagos
An exhibition that creates awareness about the impact of air pollution on people living with asthma and respiratory diseases, using art for intervention.
Human Study
Alternative Truths
Back to Back
A classical study of the female form in watercolour and pastel.
Back to Back
Alternative Truths
Back to Back
Back to back is a multi-sensory art piece that draws elements from poetry, sculpture, performance and music to create a riveting social commentary on the impact of social media in today's world.
Alternative Truths
Alternative Truths
Golden Age of Icons
A performance installation that advocates for sustainable resolution of the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Using art as a tool to initiate dialogue on this issue, the artist engages the audience to witness and cleanse.
Golden Age of Icons
Golden Age of Icons
Golden Age of Icons
This body of work is a multi-sensory immersive collection that centers Nigerian women in the art ecosystem through works on canvas, metal, drawings, a short film and an NFT.
We the Kings
Golden Age of Icons
We the Kings
This collection shown at the Gallery of African Art, London, examines the complexities of power within three contexts, the artist within the art ecosystem, the Nigerian and the African.
Who Are You
Golden Age of Icons
We the Kings
This series explores identity, vulnerability and the sense of other-ness the artist has witnessed and felt in her reality, in the context of tribe, gender, race, while navigating the idea of self.
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