Awakening Painting

Tony Uyota Efeakpokrire was born in Warri, Nigeria. He attended the prestigious colorist’s citadel of Arts Federal polytechnic Auchi, Edo state where he studied General Art and industrial design in 2013 and Painting in 2016 obtaining a National and Higher national diploma respectively. He was the president National association of Fine and Applied Art student’s Federal polytechnic Auchi chapter and interim president National association of Fine Art students Nigeria. He won several academic awards including future star awards for outstanding academic performance during the return of the master’s conference held in Federal polytechnic Auchi in 2016 and the rector’s award of excellence for best graduating student in painting 2017. In the course of his artistic journey Tony has been commissioned to produce several murals for public spaces and hubs, experimented on different artistic styles and movements and has participated in several competitions, workshops and exhibitions and recently was one among 15 other artist that participated in the [Re] : entanglement art exhibition which was a collaborative effort Edo global art foundation and the University of Cambridge.