{"id":8034,"date":"2017-01-16T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8034"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:59:21","slug":"buraimoh-jimoh-olatunji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/buraimoh-jimoh-olatunji\/","title":{"rendered":"BURAIMOH, Jimoh Olatunji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>graphic artist, mosaicist, painter; b: 1943; p: Osogbo, so: Osun; ed: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1974. cr: Light Technician, Duro Ladipo&#8217;s National Theatre, 1964; West African Contingents at the Commonwealth Festival, London, 1965; toured Australia, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands with Duro Ladipo&#8217;s group; worked with the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1968-72; represented Nigeria at the First All-African Trade Fair, Nairobi, Kenya; Artist-in-Residence, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1974; lectured and conducted demonstrations at the Haystack Mountain Crafts School, Deer Isle, Maine, USA, 1974; opened African Heritage Gallery, Osogbo, 1975; the first of several artists to make bead paintings; mem. Associazione Internazionale Mosaicisti Contemporane, Italy, cw: Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1967; Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, 1968; Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1970; 1973, 1975, 1977; Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, 1979; Bead Paintings, Drawings and Deep Etching, Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1982; National Museum, Lagos, 1984; USIS, Ibadan, 1984; Howard University, Washington DC, 1985; Beadworks Drawings and Deep Etchings, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, 1988; African Centre, London, 1990; Nigerian High Commission, 1990. publ: Painting with Beads, African Arts 5(1), Los Angeles, 1971; Art mala med parlorIn Modern Konst i Africa, Modem Art in Africa, Lund, Sweden, Kaledoskop, 1978; Unique Creativity, West Africa, No.3745, London, 1989. off: African Heritage Art Gallery, P.O. Box 113, Oshogbo, Osun State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8034","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8034","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}