{"id":6691,"date":"2016-11-16T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T08:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6691"},"modified":"2017-04-18T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:14:47","slug":"omeke-austine","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/omeke-austine\/","title":{"rendered":"OMEKE Austine"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Graphic Artist, Painter Address: 6 Sylvia Crescent, Anthony Village, Box 6454, Ikeja, Lagos. Birth: August 24, 1964, in Boji Boji Agbor, Delta State. Training: OND, Auchi Polytechnic, 1983; studied painting and sculpture, Koko Studio, Lagos, 1983;HND in graphic art, Yaba College of Technology, 1987; toured Nigeria studying forms and designs of Igbo-Ukwu, Benin and Ife arts, 1988. Profile: Full name, Austine Ikechukwu Omeke; graphic and studio designer, Nigerian Television Authority, Abeokuta, 1981; consulting artist, Best Print Nigeria, Lagos, 1983; studio artist, Koko Studio, Lagos, 1983-1984; illustrator, Paico Publishers, Calabar, 1987; art instructor, Goretti Secondary Commerdal School, Ikot-Ekpene, 1987; freelance artist, from 1988. Member: Nigerian Sodety of Education through Art; Sodety of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Images of Time,&#8221; Kaduna Polo Club, Kaduna, December 1989. Group Exhibitions Young Masters Art Trust, Lagos, 1989. &#8220;Art for Life,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, April 19-30, 1990. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 29- October 13, 1990. Commissions Mural, mosaic, Crusaders House, Yaba, Lagos, 1984. Mural, mosaic, Chief Onyejianya Palace, Nnewi, 1985. Painting, oil on board, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, 1990. Awards &#038; Honors First and second prizes, drawing and painting, Ika Local Government and Bendel State Government, 1979. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6691","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6691","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19372,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6691\/revisions\/19372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}