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Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye, also known as Nike Davies, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian batik and Adire textile designer. Early lifeNike Davies-Okundaye was born in 1951 in Ogidi, Nigeria[1]. She was brought up amidst the traditional weaving and dying as practised in her home town of Ogidi, Kogi State, in North Central Nigeria. Her parents and great grandmother were musicians and craftspeople, who specialised in the area of cloth weaving, adire making, indigo dying and leather.[2] She spent part of her early life in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osogbo Osogbo],Western Nigeria, modern day Osun State. Osogbo is also recognised as a major centre for art and culture in Nigeria. Growing up in Osogbo, young Nike was exposed to indigo dying and Adire production which dominated her informal training.[3] CareerOver the past twenty years she has given workshops on traditional Nigerian textiles to audiences in the United States and Europe. She had her first solo exhibition at the Goethe Institute, Lagos in 1968.[2] She is the founder and director of four art centres which offer free training to over 150 young artists in visual, musical and performing arts, comprising over 7,000 artworks.[2] Finding that the traditional methods of weaving and dying that had been her original inspiration were fading in Nigeria, Davies-Okundaye set about launching a revival of this aspect of Nigerian culture, building art centres offering free courses for young Nigerians to learn traditional arts and crafts. As art historian John Peffer states, “One thing shared by many of the latest generation of African artists in the diaspora - those who have been successful on the art circuit - is that their work critiques the very burden of representation that is also the condition of their visibility.”[4] In her eyes the traditional art of Adire Eleko is only possible because of a specific Nigerian heritage of passing knowledge from one generation to the next. In a video interview published by Nubia Africa, Okundaye states that “school can only teach what they [art students] already know.”[5]According to a CNBC Africa interview, she trained over three thousand young Nigerians for free and she continues to help by funding many poor to establish their small businesses and art workshops in different parts of Nigeria. Davies-Okundaye strives to improve lives of disadvantaged women in Nigeria through art. She teaches the unique techniques of indigo cloth-dyeing (Adire) to rural women at her workshop in southwest Nigeria. She hopes to revive the centuries-old tradition and the lives of these women.[6] Adire - that which is tied and dyed - is native to the Southwest region of Nigeria. The freehand dying is sometimes known as Adire Eleko. “Adire” refers to indigo dye, and “Eleko” refers to the boiled cassava, lime, and alum resist technique used to create patterns.[7] There is a strong tendency to keep dyeing recipes and methods secret from inquisitive outsiders.[8] Davies-Okundaye chooses to continuously reference Adire patterns in her artwork because Adire is a women's art, and was taught to her by her mother. Adire pattern motifs were traditionally handed down from mother to daughter, and the designs themselves virtually have not changed in form over time.[9] Davies-Okundaye was featured on CNN International's "African Voices" which tells about Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring their lives and passions.[10] Moreover, Nike's painting is permanently featured at The Smithsonian Museum as of 2012, and her work is also part of the collection of The Gallery of African Art and The British Library, in London. She holds the chieftaincy titles of the Yeye Oba of Ogidi-Ijumu and the Yeye Tasase of Oshogbo. Personal lifeShe was once married to fellow Nigerian artist Twins Seven Seven, but that marriage ended in divorce. Her son Olabayo Olaniyi, College of Santa Fe graduate, is also an artist. Davies-Okundaye has more than 150 students in Europe and America. She is also a philanthropist. Published sourcesA book about Davies was written by Kim Marie Vaz, The Woman with the Artistic Brush: A Life History of Yoruba Batik Artist Nike Davies.[11] HonoursIn 2019 Rhodes University in Grahamstown announced it would award Davies-Okundaye an honorary doctorate in fine arts (DFA, hc)[12] See also{{Portal|Nigeria|Biography|Visual arts}}
References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Anyidoho|first1=edited by Lynn Gumpert ; with essays by Kofi|last2=Gumpert|first2=Lynn|last3=;|first3=John Picton|last4=al.]|first4=contributions by Jennifer S. Brown ... [et|title=The poetics of cloth : African textiles, recent art|date=2008|publisher=Grey Art Gallery, New York University|location=New York|isbn=9780615220833|page=68}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.gafraart.com/artists/32-nike-davies-okundaye-&-tola-wewe/overview/|title=Nike Davies-Okundaye & Tola Wewe|website=Gallery of African Art|accessdate=8 May 2018}} 3. ^{{Cite web |title=Nike Davies-Okundaye |author= |work=Gallery of African Art |date=n.d. |access-date=15 March 2019 |url= https://www.gafraart.com/artists/56-nike-davies-okundaye/overview/ |quote=}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=“The Diaspora as Object,” in Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora|last=Peffer|first=John|publisher=Museum for African Art|year=2003|isbn=|location=New York, NY|pages=32}} 5. ^{{Youtube|id=xeFqBeEUCpw|title=INDLU with Nike “Davies” Okundaye}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://guardian.ng/life/culture-lifestyle/nike-davies-okundaye-expressing-nigeria-through-art/|title=Nike Davies-Okundaye: Expressing Nigeria Through Art|publisher=|accessdate=8 May 2018}} 7. ^{{Cite book|title=Beyond Indigo: Adire Eleko Squares, Patters & Meanings|last1=Carr |last2= Davies-Okundaye|first1=Ritka |first2=Nike|publisher=Sabo-Yaba|year=2001|isbn=|location=Lagos, Nigeria|pages=}} 8. ^{{Cite book|title=The Women with the Artistic Brush|last=Vaz|first=Kim Marie|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|year=1995|isbn=|location=|pages=84}} 9. ^{{Cite book|title=Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa|last=Gillow|first=John|publisher=University of Washington Press|year=2001|isbn=|location=Seattle|pages=16-17}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/12/nigeria.nike.davies.okundaye/index.html|title=Nigeria's 'Mama Nike' empowers women through art|author=Christian Purefoy|publisher=CNN|accessdate=8 May 2018}} 11. ^{{cite journal | last = Bourgatti | first = Jean M. | year = 1997 | month = | title = The Woman with the Artistic Brush | journal = International Journal of African Historical Studies | volume = 30 | issue = 1 | pages = 216–218 | doi = 10.2307/221593 | id = | quote = Reviews the book The Woman with the Artistic Brush: A Life History of Yoruba Batik Artist Nike Davies, by Kim Marie Vaz. | publisher = The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 | last2 = Vaz | first2 = Kim Marie | jstor = 221593 }} 12. ^{{Cite web |title=Rhodes University honours five of Africa’s best |author= |work=grocotts.co.za |date=7 March 2019 |access-date=7 March 2019 |url= https://www.grocotts.co.za/2019/03/07/rhodes-university-honours-five-of-africas-best/?fbclid=IwAR1x45CQ3k5TySDi5ueTbS7iLMAvh9n83yfKzwqdwMyq7W800SMU0dRHu2Q |quote=}} External links
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