Spare The Child, 2025.
24x30
Oil, charcoal, pastel and rope on canvas.
This work explores power dynamics between children and adults in family/ formal settings in Nigeria.
Discussing themes of strict social assimilation with an emphasis on corporal punishment, Spare the rod and spoil the child is an old idiom used when I was young to justify different forms of disciplinary action.
The child as the most vulnerable class represents new ways of challenging and navigating the changing world, causing a divide between adults who aim to enforce conformity. The faun represents more than the child, but an allegory of a culture instillilling behaviours that promote cowardice and over compliance.
Spare The Child, 2025.
24x30
Oil, charcoal, pastel and rope on canvas.
This work explores power dynamics between children and adults in family/ formal settings in Nigeria.
Discussing themes of strict social assimilation with an emphasis on corporal punishment, Spare the rod and spoil the child is an old idiom used when I was young to justify different forms of disciplinary action.
The child as the most vulnerable class represents new ways of challenging and navigating the changing world, causing a divide between adults who aim to enforce conformity. The faun represents more than the child, but an allegory of a culture instillilling behaviours that promote cowardice and over compliance.
