Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Nigeria Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
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The leading artist of the Nsukka School after Okeke, who took uli — the Igbo tradition of body and wall painting — and made a modern visual language out of it.
Obiora Udechukwu is a leading member of the Nsukka School, the movement originally led by Uche Okeke.
He became one of its most prominent artists, working in the revival of uli, the Igbo body and wall painting tradition, as a modernist idiom.
He became one of its most prominent artists, working in the revival of uli, the Igbo body and wall painting tradition, as a modernist idiom.
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