Bankole Olayiwola Abe was born at Ijero-Ekiti, Nigeria. Trained as a painter, textile designer, printer, lithographer and graphic artist, he is a versatile experimentalist and installation artist who is adept in different media. He studied general art at the Institute of Textile Technology, Arts & Design, Lagos. An African artist whose works over the years increasingly depict a fertile mind steeped in the richness of his ancestral roots. Some of his works emit an aura of the mystical experiences which must have inspired them. He is imbued with a unique...more