{"id":12319,"date":"2017-02-27T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T08:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12319"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:44:30","slug":"kamalu-kay-2","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kamalu-kay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"KAMALU, Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Textile Artist Address: 83 Randle Avenue, Surulere, Lagos. Birth: September 22, 1963, in Akwete, Imo State. Training: Learned weaving from her mother, beginning at age eight; BSc, economics, University of Lagos, 1987; MSc in management, University of Lagos, 1990. Profile: Full name, Ihuoma Kay Erewarisie Kamalu; uses large, handmade wooden vertical loom; designs are extensions of Yoruba akwete designs that have been enlarged or multiplied in different orders and sequences. Solo Exhibitions Westbourne Gallery, London, September 9-27, 1986. &#8220;Akwete Hand Woven Textiles from Nigeria,&#8221; Black-Art Gallery, London, January 1989. Westbourne Gallery, London, October 1989. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Nigerian Textile Exhibition,&#8221; Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, 1984. Commonwealth Festival of Arts, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1986. Third International Trade Fair, Lome, Togo, November 1987. &#8220;An Exhibition of Paintings and Hand-Woven Textiles by Hassan Aliyu and Ihuoma Kay Kamalu,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 11-24, 1987. Sinsemillia Gallery, Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, October 1988. Public Collections Goethe Institute, Lagos. &#8220;Okwa,&#8221; 1987. Goethe Institute, London. &#8220;Dada Mwakata&#8221; and &#8220;Rekereke,&#8221; 1989. Bibliography Coker, Ade. &#8220;Keeping the Tradition Alive,&#8221; Artrage (London) (14), autumn 1986. An Exhibition ofPaintings and Hand-Woven Textiles by Hassan Aliyu and Ihuoma Kay Kamalu, sponsored by the National Gallery ofModern Art, Federal Department of Culture, National Theatre. Lagos: [s.n., 1987]. 24pp. illus. Ewens, Graeme. &#8220;Akwete, A Weaving Language,&#8221; African Sunrise (London) 3 (2): 10- 11, 1989. illus. (color). Solanke, Adeola. &#8220;Akwete Weaver in Solo Show,&#8221; [review of an exhibition held at the Black-Art Gallery, London, January 1989]. West Africa (London) no. 3726: 90, January 16-22, 1989. illus. Solanke, Adeola. &#8220;Weaving a New Pattern,&#8221; Morning Star (London) January 18, 1989. illus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12319","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20482,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12319\/revisions\/20482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}