{"id":18878,"date":"2017-03-31T11:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18878"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:06:10","slug":"aiyegbusi-tayo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/aiyegbusi-tayo\/","title":{"rendered":"AIYEGBUSI Tayo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Design Productions Nigeria, PO Box 499, Yaba, Lagos. Birth: In 1926. Training: Studied in the United States on a Ford-Rockefeller grant, 1952; St. Martin&#8217;s School of Art, London, 1957. Profile: Full name, Omotayo Aiyegbusi; graphic artist, Ministry of Information, Ibadan; represented Nigeria at the Institute of International Education, New York, USA, 1952; designer and silkscreen artist for Black Orpheus; trained apprentices in the silk-screen process; designed book jackets for Cambridge University Press, Evans Brothers and for individual writers; designed greeting cards and calendars. Member: Society of Industrial Artists, London; founding member, Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Nigerian Arts Festival,&#8221; Lagos, April, 1950. &#8220;Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; Exhibition Centre, Lagos, January 16-22, 1964. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art,&#8221; Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968. Second Indian Triennial, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India, 1971. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Prints and Paintings,&#8221; Fourth Ife Festival of the Arts, University of Ife Library, Ile-Ife, December 11-15, 1971. Writings by the Artist &#8220;Eine Mischung aus Afrikanischer Mythologie und Englischem Witz,&#8221; pp. 9-11. In: Georgina Beier, [Bayreuth: Iwalewa-Haus, 1983?]. 40pp. See pages 37-39 for English translation, &#8220;A Mixture of African Mythology and English Whimsy.&#8221; &#8220;Aiyegbusi Talks about Georgina Beier&#8217;s Paintings,&#8221; Tendenzen (Munich) 25 (146): 15, April-June 1984. Honors &#038; Awards Best entry, crafts section, Nigerian Festival of the Arts, Lagos, 1950and 1951 and United Africa Company cup for best all-round entry, Nigerian Festival of the Arts, 1950. Public Collections Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany. Screen prints: three untitled. Mbari Art, Washington, DC. Bibliography &#8220;600Compete in Nigerian Arts Festival,&#8221; West African Annual (Zaria)1950,page 62. Hennessy, Olive. &#8220;A YoungNigerianLooksat Modern Art,&#8221; West African Review (London) September 1952, page 923. &#8220;Artist and Designer,&#8221; West African Review (London) Independence Issue, 1960. illus. Contemporary Nigerian Art: An Exhibition Assembled by the Society of Nigerian Artists; [held at the Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968]. London: Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, 1968. [15]pp. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Artists at Work,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos)no. 97:111-112, June-August 1968. illus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18878","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18878","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}