‘Since we started Piece Unique, the idea has always been to give back to the art world and especially African artists,’ shares Nigerian artist Oluwole Omofemi, who together with Bayo Akande has created an artist agency that centres its activities on guiding, capacity building, selling and future-proofing emerging artists’ careers.
‘The thing about me is I can’t see a gap and not plug it,’ adds Akande, whose entrepreneurial career coupled with his enviable private art collection positions him as a perfect business- and aesthetically minded foil to Omofemi’s creative ambitions. A successful debut London art exhibition, ‘Contact Zone’ held at Cromwell Place, is being followed up by ‘Contact Zone II’, a special project debuting at 1:54 London, featuring work by Omofemi alongside Blebo, Boris Anje and Elfreda Dali that has been created in Piece Unique’s Artist Residency in Ibadan, Nigeria.
