{"id":12845,"date":"2017-02-28T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12845"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:19:51","slug":"olu-abiola","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olu-abiola\/","title":{"rendered":"ABIOLA, Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Department of Industrial Design, School of Art, Design &#038; Printing, Yaba College of Technology, PMB 2011, Yaba, Lagos. Birth: October 31, 1941, in Ilesha, Oshun State. Training: Diploma in painting, London College of Art, London, 1963; studied art, Yaba College of Technology, 1961-1964; BA in industrial ceramics, Higher School of Applied &#038; Fine Art, Istanbul, Turkey, 1969. Profile: Full name, Olugboyega Henry Abiola; apprenticeships, Furst Adolf Ceramics Works, Bucherburg, Germany, 1966; Yildiz Porcelain Factory, Istanbul, Turkey, 1967; Canakkale Ceramics, Turkey, 1967; Industrial Research Institute of Natural Resources, Ankara, Turkey, 1968; Eczacibasi Ceramics Factory, Istanbul, Turkey, 1969; ceramic laboratory technologist, Keramag Works Ceramics, Germany, 1969; modeler and designer, Richware Pottery, Lagos, 1970-1971; part-time lecturer, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, 1971-1972; production coordinator, ceramics section, Fertesco Industries, Lagos, 1974-1976; lecturer\/head, Department of Industrial Design, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, from 1976; wrote a textbook on ceramics, 1978. Member: International Artists&#8217; Association; International Society for Education Through Art; Nigerian Institute of Ceramics; Nigeria Society of Industrial Artists &#038; Designers; Society of Industrial Artists &#038; Designers, London; Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions Dutch Chapel&#8217;s Manse, Istanbul, Turkey, 1965. Group Exhibitions Ceramics Exhibition, Turkey, 1969. &#8220;Sonderdruck, Kunst &#038; Handwerk,&#8221; Gnunden, Austria, October 1969. &#8220;Sculpture by I. A. Osunde and Ceramics by O. H. Abiola,&#8221; Society of Nigerian Artists, National Museum, Lagos, November 10-18, 1975. FESTAC&#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 30-October 7, 1978. &#8220;Nigerian Contemporary Artists&#8221;, Lagos, October 1980. Industrial Design Artists&#8217; Exhibition, National Theatre, Lagos, 1981. &#8220;Offerings from the Gods,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, June-July 1985. &#8220;Towards a Greater Nation,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, December 5-19, 1987. &#8220;Yaba Tech Staff Art at 40,&#8221; Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, July 7-28, 1988. Second International Ceramics Festival &#8217;89, Mino, Japan, 1989. Commissions Three red crystal\/aventurine glazed flower pots, Whitney Young Resource Centre, USIS, Lagos, 1981. Ceramic mural tiles, National Libraries, Kaduna, Jos, Enugu, 1984. Brass crest, University of Lagos, Lagos, 1985. Life-sizereclining figure, cedar wood, Lagos State College of Education, Oto, Ijanikin, 1990. Awards &#038; Honors Second prize, Murtala Mohammed International Airport art competition, 1978. Bibliography Jegede, Dele. &#8220;The Glamour that is NigerianArt,&#8221; Daily Times (Lagos) November 20, 1975, page 17. See also references: 269, 275, 282, 300, 312. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12845","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12845","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12845"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}