Last week, we welcomed ruby onyinyechi amanze, a U.S. based visual artist, to G.A.S. Lagos for a two-week residency. Grounded in drawing, her practice expansively traverses dance, architecture and design to explore the vast and magical potential of space. Working with seven recurring elements, amanze creates minimal spatial interactions that imagine alternative ways of movement. Her current research focuses on developing three-dimensional drawings that challenge how the medium is experienced, informed by the dimensional languages of architecture, design, and choreography.

Nigerian interdisciplinary artist Olufela Omokeko, whose practice examines pressing sociocultural issues through performance, installation, photo-video art, and social practice, recently concluded an eight-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise. During his time there, he focused on the disappearance of local food cultures and the preservation of traditional farming knowledge, exploring these themes through a multi-sensory engagement with land, labour, and sustenance. Drawing inspiration from Ebenezer Obey’s 1976 song Operation Feed the Nation, Olufela reimagined the hoe, a key Yoruba agricultural tool, as both a sculptural and symbolic element that honours the resilience and cultural presence of farmers.

We are pleased to welcome E.N. Mirembe, a Germany-based curator, writer, and researcher, for a four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Their work explores the intersections of literature, curatorial practice, and Black artistic production, with a particular focus on the histories and legacies of African and diasporic literary magazines. Mirembe’s broader inquiry reflects an interest in how these publications have shaped aesthetic production across the African diaspora and how their legacy continues to inform contemporary creative practices.

Earlier this month, we welcomed Kwadwo A. Asiedu, a Lagos-based Ghanaian-Mexican painter and photographer, to the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Raised within the grounds of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), home to one of West Africa’s largest preserved rainforests, Kwadwo’s early life was deeply attuned to the natural world. This foundation informs a visual practice rooted in abstracted landscapes and a sustained inquiry into humanity’s complex relationship with nature. Through his use of elemental forms, he interrogates the dissonance between human ambition and ecological reality, exploring themes of permanence and impermanence while seeking to reframe our relationship with nature toward reverence, humility, and stewardship.

On October 17th, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Perpetual Motion People, a presentation of research and reflections by Chinyere Obieze, exploring the legacies of Nigerian art and its shifting meanings across generations. Through readings, research notes, and critical reflections gathered during her residency, Chinyere traced how Nigerian artists have articulated identity and imagination through times of change from the pre- to post-Independence eras.

On October 2nd, G.A.S. Lagos hosted a fundraising dinner supported by our trustee Niyi Adenubi, which brought together collectors, cultural leaders, and art enthusiasts for an evening of ideas, connection, and a shared vision for the future of Nigerian art and culture.

On 9 October 2025, friends of Yinka Shonibare Foundation and G.A.S. Foundation gathered in London when Tate Modern presented a landmark public conversation alongside the Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern curated by 2024 G.A.S. Alumnus, Osei Bonsu. The conversation between acclaimed artist Yinka Shonibare CBE and Booker Prize-winning writer Sir Ben Okri offered an exchange between two leading cultural figures whose practices have been shaped by and continue to shape global understandings of Nigerian Modernism

Earlier this week, we welcomed Daniel Minter, an American painter, illustrator, and educator, to G.A.S. Foundation for his residency. His multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, and crafts, often addressing themes of displacement and diaspora informed by his extensive travels across Africa and the wider African Diaspora. Beyond his artistic practice, Daniel is the co-founder and artist director of Indigo Arts Alliance,a Maine-based arts incubator that brings together artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora to engage in their creative processes. Through multidisciplinary residency and fellowship programs rooted in a Black-led approach to creativity, community-building, and mentorship, the organization's mission addresses the underrepresentation of Black and Brown artists across disciplines in the local, national and global context.