Adwoa Botchey and Solomon Adebiyi’s fine art paintings depict African folklore and spiritual systems and they will be on show from Friday, 13th February at Art Works East in Leyton
A contemporary exhibition of original acrylic and oil paintings exploring African folklore will open on Thursday, 12th February and run until 13th March 2026 in Art Works East, Leyton.
Created by award-winning artist couple Adwoa Botchey and Solomon Adebiyi, Shaped From Earth is slated to “bring together African folklore, spiritual systems, and cultural expression through contemporary fine art”.
The creative duo say their exhibition “traces how communities across the African continent have historically used image, ritual, and material culture to shape understandings of the body, the spirit, and the world”.
Audiences will experience traditional African hairstyles presented as living archives of identity, craftsmanship, and social history, as well as African masks and masquerades explored as “dynamic art forms tied to spirit, performance, and communal memory”.
The artists say that their work “invites audiences to view African mythology not as myth in the reductive sense, but as sophisticated knowledge systems preserved through story, embodied through ritual, and reimagined through contemporary art today”.
Shaped From Earth will run in Art Works East, 2-34 Osier Way, E10 5SB from Friday, 13th February until Friday, 20th March, 8am to 5pm.
Confirm your spot for the private view on Thursday, 12th February 6pm – 9pm here
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