Omenka Gallery is proud to present Between Memory and Becoming, a joint exhibition featuring Olu Frank Idoze and Adeola Abisoye Odewole. Working across painting, mixed media, and digital illustration, the artists explore the shifting terrain between remembrance and transformation—a space where ancestral knowledge, cultural symbolism, and spiritual inquiry converge to shape new visual expressions of self and identity.
Olu Frank Idoze works with straw inlay, mixed media, and cultural illustration to produce richly textured compositions that bridge indigenous aesthetics with contemporary design. His art is marked by intricate patterns, earthy tones, and motifs that reference traditional African belief systems, crafts, and architecture. Idoze's contribution to the exhibition speaks to memory as a tactile inheritance—something built, layered, and preserved through the hands. His pieces function like cultural manuscripts, offering meditations on identity, unity, and the resilience embedded in heritage.
Adeola Abisoye Odewole presents a multidisciplinary practice that navigates the spiritual dimensions of self and ancestry. His paintings and digital works explore the metaphysical connections between the individual and the collective, often drawing from African philosophy and ritual imagery. With a background in art direction and storytelling, Odewole infuses his work with both narrative clarity and symbolic abstraction. In this exhibition, his contribution becomes a site of introspection—where the boundaries between memory, imagination, and spiritual becoming begin to blur.
About the Artists
Olu Frank Idoze
Olu Frank Idoze is a self-taught Nigerian visual artist and art director whose mixed-media practice explores African heritage through symbolic storytelling. Working with straw inlay and indigenous materials, he merges traditional craft with contemporary aesthetics to create textured, culturally resonant compositions. His work draws from historic African patterns, architecture, and spiritual motifs to reflect themes of unity, resilience, and identity. Idoze has exhibited widely and developed his practice through mentorship with local artisans. As Creative Director of OFI Expressions, he remains committed to using art as a medium for preservation, dialogue, and the elevation of cultural memory.
Adeola Abisoye Odewole
Adeola Abisoye Odewole is a UK-based Nigerian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, digital art, and commercial storytelling. His practice explores identity, ancestry, and cultural memory, often combining African spiritual symbols with contemporary narratives. In 2022, he held his debut solo exhibition, Inward Gaze, at Windsor Gallery, Lagos, followed by Rooted Echoes in 2024. A former art director at X3M Ideas Nigeria, he contributed to award-winning advertising campaigns, including Soot Life Expectancy. Odewole holds an MSc in Design Innovation from De Montfort University. His visual language merges fine art with digital forms to bridge tradition and modernity.