{"id":7366,"date":"2017-01-09T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7366"},"modified":"2017-11-30T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:33:16","slug":"ben-osawe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ben-osawe\/","title":{"rendered":"OSAWE, Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Address: 2 Ekhator Street, Ogida Quarters, Benin City, Edo State. Birth: August 26, 1931, in Agbor, Delta State. Training: School of Graphic Art, London, 1959; Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, London, 1960-1965, specializing in sculpture. Profile: Full name, Benson G. Osawe; shared studio with Felix Idubor, Lagos, 1965; freelance artist, Benin City, from 1976; uses wood, cement, welded alloys, and lost wax process. Solo Exhibitions Goethe Institute, Lagos, April 30-May21, 1969. Group Exhibitions Artists International Association Gallery, London, 1962. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1963. &#8220;Treasures of the Commonwealth,&#8221; Commonwealth Festival Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland, 1965. Exhibition Centre, Lagos, 1967. &#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 Sculpture on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the University of Ife,&#8221; University of Ife, Ile-Ife, September-October 1973. FESTAC&#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 4-9, 1977. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October 1, 1980. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Dakar, Senegal, November 25- December 7, 1980. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Islamabad, Pakistan, 1983. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos; Federal University of Technology, Owerri, September 26-October 1, 1985. &#8220;Nigerian Sculpture,&#8221; The Mall Galleries, London, July 1-13, 1986. Public Collections Federal Ministry of Information, Cultural Division, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Masks&#8221; and &#8220;Antelope&#8221;; metal sculpture: &#8220;Dancing Masquerades&#8221;; wood, ebony, sculpture: &#8220;Mask.&#8221; National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Bronze casts: &#8220;A Benin Queen&#8221; and &#8220;Oba Akenzua II of Benin&#8221;; metal sculpture: &#8220;Dancing Masquerades&#8221;; wood sculptures: &#8220;Standing Figure&#8221; and &#8220;Antelope.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7366","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7366","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23009,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7366\/revisions\/23009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}