Artist Statement & Biography
Statement
Close your eyes and feel beyond the boundaries of artistic medium. A thought becomes tangible, bask in it. Medium has no matter here, the essence of my work is to evoke feeling. The consistent feeling that permeates my artistic practice is fluidity.
Biography
Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero [Stacey Ravvero] is a multidisciplinary, multilingual artist and author from Nigeria, with an M.A. from the University of Warwick. Her work includes painting; works on paper, and canvas, metal sculpture environmental art and performance installation.
Okparavero’s multifaceted practice currently investigates the human experience, while focusing on socio-political and environmental issues.
Her artworks have been exhibited and are held in prestigious collections across Lagos, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Chambéry, Tennessee, Russia, Dakar, Accra, Nairobi and New York.
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My Background
My Inspiration
My 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
My Inspiration
My Background
Feel beyond the boundaries of art. My work breathes and expands beyond media. My artistic practice is expressed through line drawings, metal fabrication, paintings, poetry and immaterial performative art.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
I enjoy basking in mundane experiences and moving mindfully through life. 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 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)
Leave the Leaves performance installation at Savvy Contemporary 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
Leave the Leaves performance installation at Savvy Contemporary Berlin 2022
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 — Accra
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 — Iwaya
Catharsis — Accra
Catharsis — Iwaya
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 — Accra
Catharsis — Iwaya
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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I currently take commissions on large-scale projects in metal, paintings and performance art installation.
Art Collaborations
Art Collaborations
Art Collaborations
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