{"id":18866,"date":"2017-03-31T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18866"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:05:07","slug":"airen-thomas","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/airen-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"AIREN, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth: 1929, in Benin City, Edo State. Training: Apprenticed to sculptor Felix Idubor. Profile: Operated his own sculpture workshop in Lagos. Group Exhibitions &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October 1, 1980. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Dakar, Senegal, November 25December 7, 1980. &#8220;Ausstellung Nigerianische Kunst der Gegenwart,&#8221; Bonn, Germany, August 9-18, 1982. &#8220;SilverJubileeNational Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos; FederalUniversity of Technology, Owerri; Lugard Hall, Kaduna, September 26-October 1, 1985. Public Collections National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Wizard,&#8221; &#8220;Female Form,&#8221; &#8220;Bust of a Woman,&#8221; and &#8220;Couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18866","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18866","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18866"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}