Yewande Ambeke is a self-trained visual artist living in Lagos, Nigeria. She is fascinated with unravelling the different states of the human mind, depicted as abstracted figurative expressions.
Yewande Ambeke is a self-trained visual artist living in Lagos, Nigeria. She is fascinated with unravelling the different states of the human mind, depicted as abstracted figurative expressions.
Her figures often depict personal experiences with swirls of contrasting colours representing positive and negative emotions such as joy, hope and anxiety, where each painting allows for spontaneous brush strokes/movements.
Yewande holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and a Master’s in Clinical Pharmacy from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She participated in the 2021 edition of Rele Young Contemporaries Bootcamp and was as a finalist for the 2022 Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art.