Credits and Disclaimers

About the Artist

Temidayo Odutokun
Nigerian, Born 1986.

Temidayo Odutokun was born in Zaria, Nigeria in November 1986, to an artist father and a mother in the literary arts. She is a visual artist, writer, poet and photographer. Her interests were tuned to the visual and literary arts from an early age.

Temidayo attended the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where she specialised in painting, obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, and a Masters Degree in Art History, at the Zaria Art School.

Raised in a university community, the artist experienced long term stability of location which helped keep her rooted in times of change. This served as a steady board to bounce off from, into life experiences within and out of her familiar social contexts. It reflects in her drawings and paintings as a perceptible quest for harmony in line (especially), in colour, space awareness and other elements. Through her art, she seeks to bring to light the beauty in a well rounded story of everyday people. Her works often focus more on human subjects than environment or are sometimes a fused interplay of both.

Over the last 10 years, Temidayo worked as a curator with the National Gallery of Art, Kaduna, Nigeria.

In November 2022, she initiated and curated an exhibition of art by 13 young artists in Kaduna titled Stories of Kaduna.

Her works have featured in group exhibitions between 2009 and 2017. She has also worked on commissioned proiects - the most recent of which was a series of murals for Float, a Ghana owned Fintech company operating in Lagos, Nigeria (2022).

She is currently the Director of The Gani Odutokun Foundation, an organisation aimed at documenting the life and works of her late father, Gani Odutokun - a renowned Nigerian Artist.

Temidayo now lives in Accra, Ghana, from where she continues to explore visual arts and further contemporary art curating.

This painting was done to capture the services offered by Al Tamimi & Company in terms of legal and logistics resources, with a focus on the company’s intention to broaden its footprint in the African continent. Africa is the focal point of the cover art piece, represented by a woman, with images depicting transport and logistics, extending from her.

In the painting, some ideas are hidden in symbols inspired by Adinkra, (an ancient communication art form of indigenous Ghana) and other stylised images. The Adinkra symbol Funtunfunefu-Denkyemfunefufor, signifying unity no matter the conflict or extent of diversity, is featured.

Other images representing the continent’s vast resources like solar power potential, cocoa and precious stones, and some representing the firm's brand values (of being unique, impactful, consistent and collaborative), are to be found in the composition as well.

The overall piece is intended to allure a viewer into experiencing the various aspects of African wealth of culture and natural resources, right alongside the images depicting transport and logistics. All representational motifs are subtly accentuated by surrounding fractal patterns, which are common to nearly every aspect of African culture and have become at once, symbolic representations of products of the continent.

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