{"id":9538,"date":"2017-02-04T00:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9538"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T06:22:36","slug":"uwatse-chinwe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/uwatse-chinwe\/","title":{"rendered":"UWATSE, Chinwe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, PMB 2959, Surulere, Lagos. Birth: January 31, 1960, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Training: BA in fine and applied arts, University of Nigeria, 1982, specializing in painting. Profile: Full name, Chinwe Cynthia Anne Uwatse (nee Ntephe); art critic\/reviewer, The Guardian, Lagos; employed, National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Lagos, from 1982. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;These Curious Things,&#8221; Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, November 17-24, 1990. Group Exhibitions AFAAS Exhibition, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1982. &#8220;Drawings, Prints &#038; Watercolours: Okike 10th Anniversary,&#8221; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, April 1982. &#8220;Nigerian Women in Arts,&#8221; National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, March 2-7, 1987. &#8220;Women Now,&#8221; National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, April 30-May 5, 1990. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September29-October 13, 1990. Commissions Oil pastel on canvas, &#8220;Womanhood,&#8221; National Council of Women&#8217;s Societies, Lagos, 1988. Writings by the Artist &#8220;Traditional Art in Modern Society,&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) January 21, 1988. &#8220;Tiv Traditional Textiles (1),&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) February 11, 1988[and] &#8220;Tiv Textiles (2),&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) February 26, 1988. &#8220;A Salute to Fertilityand Motherhood,&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) February 25, 1988. &#8220;Mike Omoighe: Artist in Harmony with Nature,&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) March 24, 1988. &#8220;Art Appreciation,&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) June 9, 1988. &#8220;Art Appreciation,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) October 2, 1988. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) October 9, 1988. &#8220;Three Decades of Nigerian Art,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) October 16, 1988. &#8220;Rhythms in Creation,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) October 23, 1988. &#8220;This Heritage Must Not Die,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) December 25, 1988. &#8220;Rhythms in Creation,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) October 23, 1988. &#8220;This Heritage Must Not Die,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) December 25, 1988. &#8220;Just as We Are,&#8221; TheGuardian (Lagos) June 18, 1989. &#8220;The Hands that Rule Vision&#8221; [review of AKA &#8217;89 exhibition]. TheGuardian (Lagos) July 2, 1989. &#8220;A Step Beyond Yesterday,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) July 30, 1989. &#8220;Art of &#8217;89: Did it Say Anything?&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) January 21, 1990. &#8220;Uli: A Unique Heritage Reborn,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) January 28, 1990. &#8220;The Art and Its Man,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) February 25, 1990. &#8220;Making Waves in Art&#8221; [Nike Davies]. The Guardian (Lagos) April 1, 1990, page B8. &#8220;Stories, Moods and Imaginings,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) June 17, 1990. &#8220;Festivity and Reminiscences,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) June 24, 1990. &#8220;A Blaze of Colour,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) October 28, 1990. Public Collections Chartered Bank, Lagos. Acrylic on board: &#8220;Ite Ogwu (medicinepot),&#8221; 1987; watercolor: &#8220;. . .And Their Treasures Were Like Flotsam,&#8221; 1990. National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Watercolors: &#8220;Iya Ibeji,&#8221; 1989, &#8220;The Debutante,&#8221; 1990, &#8220;After the Sales,&#8221; 1990, &#8220;Jigida,&#8221; 1990, &#8220;Let us Pray,&#8221; 1990, &#8220;Why?&#8221; 1990, and &#8220;In the Midst of Turmoil,&#8221; 1990; acrylicon board: &#8220;While the Elders Talk,&#8221; 1990. University of Nigeria, Ana Gallery, Nsukka. Acrylic on board: &#8220;Help Me,&#8221; 1981; oil on board: &#8216;The Poet &#038; the Muse,&#8221; 1982; mixedmedia on board: &#8220;Inspired by Red,&#8221; 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9538","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9538","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\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20745,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9538\/revisions\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}