Arc Gallery was established in 2009 in London to promote modern and contemporary art. It represents established and emerging artists from around the world to give them wider exposure. The gallery features works by five Nigerian artists - Duke Asidere, Francis Uduh, Uchay Joel Chima, Tam Joseph, and Uche Okeke.
1. Arc Gallery was established in 2009 and is dedicated
to the appreciation and promotion of the best
modern and contemporary art.
WELCOME TO ARC GALLERY
2. The gallery currently represent and feature a rich diversity of
established and emerging contemporary artists, supporting and
showcasing their work to a wider international audience.
3. DUKE ASIDERE
FRANCIS UDUH
UCHAY JOEL CHIMA
TAM JOSEPH
UCHE OKEKE
4. Asiderephotographer is an Artist Educator
and - a graduate of Fine Art from Ahmadu
Bello University in Zaria, where he
completed his MFA in 1990. He went on to
lecture in Art, including Art History at
Auchi Federal Polytechnic for 5 years.
5. Francis Uduh is reticent about himself and
his art, allowing his work and raison
d’être to carry above descriptions. His
practice route has taken him from his
training at the western Nigerian
institutions of Auchi and Yaba.
6. Chima is a mixed media artist who
works with sand, wax, colours,
charcoal, thread/ropes and found
objects in his aesthetic creations.
Chima graduated in 1997 from the
Art School of the Institute of
Management and Technology, Enugu.
7. Tam Joseph's is often figurative,
personal, ephemeral and
idiosyncratic, with a surrealistic,
take on life, as he sees it. One of his
best known paintings is his 1983
work "Spirit of the Carnival”.
8. Uche Okeke is one of giants of
contemporary Nigerian Art, and the
champion of uli art practice in
Nigeria, which received international
recognition following the exhibition,
The Poetics of Line.