Ken Nwadiogbu

Cleverly, his paintings regularly feature obscure portraits of everyday people peeking through the ripped paper, elevating and situating Africans in the global context.

Weighty issues like gender equality, African cultures, global politics, Black power, and most recently knife-crime come to the conversation by way of his mind-boggling technique.

[9] Working with charcoal, pencil, and acrylic, Nwadiogbu aims to achieve a deeper meaning through his art, one which goes beyond the visually spectacular facade he presents into different themes.

[11] As the UK announced in 2022 in a dramatic statement the outsourcing of asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, migration took the light once again as a serious, and challenging matter of concern on the global stage.

Using personified cardboard boxes as vivid metaphors of black migrants, he plays around with the parcels' disposable nature, underlining the dehumanisation process at work in the migration politics.