TABITHA ODIGILI
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Art in its simplest form is a means of human expression.
My art seeks to explore human experiences, thoughts and stories via textile-inspired patterns, collage, and paintings.
I try to reflect on how art can cross boundaries and bring about connections of different perspectives together.
Working with paint scraps has become my way of blending sustainability with storytelling, turning what is left behind into something new.
In this sense therefore “Traversing Borders”, which is a theme for this exhibition reflects not only physical journeys, but also personal growth, emotional connection, and cultural exchange.
Through each piece in this exhibition, I hope to show that while art is beautiful, its true power goes beyond what we see.
My work reflects how real beauty happens among us when our different stories and experiences meet, and we learn to see and value one another.
Title: Sense of Self
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 16 x 23 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 8,000
Narration:
The gift of self-awareness is beautiful especially on a woman dressed in her blue ‘Gele’.
Her beauty is quiet but certain.
She knows who she is and aware of her worth.
Title: Give Me My Flowers
Medium: Collage on Board
Size: 10 x 11 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 2,000
Narration:
Her request reminds us to show love and appreciation while life is present.
Her flowers are symbols of strength, beauty, and the courage to bloom even after hardship.
Title: Sent of peace
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 10 x 21 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH 6,000
Narration:
This is a moment in time. She draws close and pauses to breathe in the quiet red rose with eyes closed, she is lost in its soft scent.
It’s a moment of peace, stillness, and quiet longing for nature’s gentle gif
Title: Fecundity
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 16 x 41 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 10,000
Narration:
It speaks to both men and women that we are co-creators with the creator as long as we can nurture, build, and give meaning to the world around us.
To illustrate that we are all bearers of life in different ways, through love, care, work and the things we leave behind.
She is fecundity as she embodies fullness, care and the power of creation itself.
Title: We move (1) -Walking through the Rain
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 16 x 41 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 10,000
Narration:
She walks calmly through the rain, unbothered by what others run from.
Her quiet strength teaches that not everything we fear is meant to harm us.
Some storms are meant to refresh.
Title: Who dey house?
Medium: Collage on Board
Size: 5 x13 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 2,500
Title: What a wonderful world
Medium: Collage on Board
Size: 5 x 11 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 2,500
Title: Untitled
Medium: Collage on Board
Size: 11 x 12 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 2.500
Title: Delicate Relationship (1)
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 4 x17 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 2,500
Narration:
Fragile yet free, drawn toward the white rose that blooms Neither dominates the other; the butterfly hovers near the white rose, delicate yet fearless.
Their meeting shows balance: attraction without control, closeness without claim. Nature teaches harmony in its simplest form.
Title: Delicate relationship (2)
Medium: Collage on Board
Size: 5 x18 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 2,500
Narration:
A delicate relationship is one of balance, attraction without possession, closeness without entrapment.
In their brief encounter lies a lesson: beauty thrives not in control, but in delicate harmony.
Title: Her Sister’s keeper
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 40 x 57 inches
Year: 2025
Price:
Narration:
Her Sister’s Keeper is about support, empathy, and shared strength
Title: Shared Frequency
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 28 x 48 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 15,000
Narration:
Two souls, side by side yet inward, each listening to their own music and somehow, it becomes one song.
Connection here is quiet, peaceful, and real. harmony, emotional balance, and connection beyond words.
Title: Mother Nature
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 28 x 32 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 15,000
Narration:
Her green gloves are one that nurtures the flowers. And plants bloom where her fingers rest.
She teaches that to care for the world is to care for ourselves, for what we nurture, nurtures us in return.
Title: The gift of Love
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 17 x 21 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 4,500
Narration:
The Gift of Love She stands in soft mint light, her face half-hidden beneath a wide hat.
In her hands, a bouquet maybe a gift she is about to give, or one just received.
Either way, her shy smile says it all: love has found her quietly.
Title: Echoes of Continuity
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 13 x 16 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 4,000
Narration:
She is ebony between past and present.
Her calmness shows us that growth is not forgetting where we come from but carrying it with grace into where we are going.
Title: Ele so ( Fruit seller)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 13 x 13 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 3,000
Narration:
‘Ele so,’ balances her basket of fruits with effortless grace, walking through the busy Lagos road as if she was a part of Lagos itself.
Yet, while she too is in a hurry, there’s a quiet wish behind her tired smile that people would slow down, take a breath, and remember the goodness of eso (fruit).
Through her humble trade, she hopes that she could remind the city that health, like fruit, must be chosen every day, even in the rush of life.
Title: The business of life (2)
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 41 x 51 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 30,000
Narration:
Like a busy market, life is full of movement, exchange, and noise.
We buy, sell, trade, and move on.
It reminds us that life itself is temporary - a passing place where we give, take, and keep going.
The market is as a metaphor for human journey. It is full and alive.
Everyone talking, some shouting, buying, selling, calling out, “POS here! Come withdraw your money!”
The noise, the colours, the movements, they all blend into one whole.
The market at the end of the day, when the crowd clears and the noise fades, the lesson remains.
Which is that life in this world is a market and not a home but a place of exchange.
We all come to trade something — time, effort, or dreams — before the day ends and we return home.
Title: Makoko estate
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 41 x 51 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 27,000
Narration:
An estate that shows a different side of Lagos.
A community built on water, full of life and strength.
It may not have gates or gardens, but it carries a strong sense of home, survival and togetherness.
Title: Balogun and broad
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 12 x 13 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 10,000
Narration:
Balogun market is a painting that captures the heartbeat of the Lagos that never rests. from dawn till nightfall, voices rise and overlap, traders calling, buyers bargaining, generators humming, danfo horns echoing from ‘Broad Street’ nearby.
It is a place where you can find anything and everything, if you know how to look and how to ask.
Balogun and broad is where footsteps moving is music, laughter between stalls, naira notes changing hands, every corner hums with life, every face tells a story of determination, ambition, and pure Lagos energy.
Title: Inside the yellow-black bus
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 29 x 41 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 20,000
Narration:
To enter the famous Lagos danfo-bus, bright yellow with two black stripes is hustle on wheels.
The driver is focused, eyes on the road; the conductor hangs halfway out the door shouting, “Ojuelegba! CMS! One chance front!”.
And inside the bus, everyone is on their own journey ‘oyo’ some lost in thought, some laughing at the latest gist, some just praying the traffic won’t hold too long.
It is sometimes noisy, sweaty and even funny or frustrating but somehow, it’s home. In that yellow bus, strangers share stories, some phone numbers or social media handles all in the same yellow-danfo bus.
Different people and destinations, one shared journey inside a yellow Lagos bus.
Title: Before we hit the road
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 11 x 12 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 3,000
Narration:
Before the rush-rush starts, two danfo drivers sit at a corner playing chess.
Their buses wait. engines off, passengers still coming.
For now, it’s just quiet laughter, small gist, and slow moves on the board.
In this short time before Lagos ‘wahala’ begins, they will find peace in the game because no matter the matter even in the hustle, there should be time to breathe, think, and play. before they hit the road.
Title: We move! (2)
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 12 x 13 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 5,000
Narration:
On these streets, ready or not, life expects you to move.
And so, like everyone else in these streets that never stops, she moves.
Life doesn’t wait. And yes.
Though she is still a teenager and her pink headphones may try to block out the noise, but not its sights and smells.
She must lean fast that there is only one way.
Forward ever!
Title: “It’s going to be okay”
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 29 x 29 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 12,000
Narration:
“It’s Going to Be Okay” Sometimes in life we just need a good hug.
The kind that says everything words can’t.
Here, a mother and daughter hold on to each other, eyes closed, hearts speaking in silence.
You can almost hear her whisper, “It’s going to be okay,” even if she’s not entirely sure herself.
The butterflies float around them like little pieces of hope, and the flowers — big, bold, and pink — remind us that beauty still blooms, even in the middle of worry.
Because at the end of the day, no matter how tough things get, sometimes this is all we have — love, a shoulder, and the quiet promise that somehow, we’ll both be alright
Title: Madam returns
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 15 x 21 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 9,000
Narration:
Once the pride of her village.
A first-class graduate, everyone’s hope was that she left home chasing greener pastures.
But life abroad had its own lessons.
Papers expired, friends disappeared, and just when deportation seemed certain, grace showed up……wearing blue eyes and a British passport.
Now she is back. Not as the girl who left, but as Madam White-Man-Mr. Her hug gown and hat announces her triumph, and her smile says, “God no go shame us.”
What could have been a tale of disgrace became a testimony of divine plot twist, the kind only God himself can script
Title: Once upon a city
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 12 x 13 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 8,000
Narration:
Once Upon a time there was a city new and sophisticated and everyone knew that there was nothing like it.
But it over it became a quiet and aged city still stands, its tall and short buildings once proud, now softened by time.
What was once new and bold now tells tales of yesterday
Title: Where stillness lives
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 10 x 13 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 4,000
Narration:
A calm scene of homes, trees, and water. Untouched, undisturbed.
No one in sight, yet the place breathes with quiet life
Title: Back home by waters
Medium: Collage on Board
Size: 5 x 18 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 3,000
Narration:
The special peace that only the village brings, the slow ripple of water, the rustle of palm leaves, the hum of distant laughter.
Here, time walks barefoot. The air smells of firewood and fresh rain, and every wave against the bank whispers, “You’re home
Title: ‘Who Dey for house’?
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 13 x 17 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 4,000
Narrative:
The clothes sway lazily on the drying line, telling tales of chores done and people gone.
The compound is empty, the air still, not even a whisper of cooking smoke.
Maybe they have gone to market, or maybe it is just one of those afternoons when silence holds the loudest answers.
For now, “Who Dey House?” Nobody. Just the sun keeping watch
Title: ‘Her Voice Dey!’
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 13 x 17 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 10,000
Narrative:
She dey sing like say life na rhythm microphone in hand, shades on, and vibes everywhere.
The air full of sound, Afrobeat, soul, and small gist of her journey. Her hair stand like crown, her voice carry story. This one no be just music na freedom in melody.
Title: A Crown of Rose
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 16 x 23 inches
Year: 2025
Price: GH¢ 8,000
Narration:
Her crown is not made of gold but a red rose, thorns and all. She wears it with quiet pride, soft but strong.
Each petal tells a story of struggle turned into beauty, pain shaped into grace.
She looks ahead, calm and confident, carrying her past like a garden that made her bloom.
Title: Ade Eze
Medium: Collage on Canvas
Size: 15 x 21 inches
Year: 2024
Price: GH¢ 8,000
Narration:
She carries her heritage well, no coral beads or wrappers, yet her carriage is contagious.
It speaks of royalty. Away from home, she still walks with the poise of her lineage.
True identity is not worn; it is lived, wherever one stands.