isura: Treasure of Architecture

Year:                 2026

Materials:        Adire and Coffee-dyed textile on canvas

Dimension:     107 x 107 cm (42 x 42 in)

Status:             Available

Unique Original / One of a kind

Includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity

About the ișura: Treasure of Architecture

I began this work by thinking about containment: what happens when something we value is given a structure to live inside?

 

As I placed fragments of Adire and other textiles across the surface, I became increasingly aware of boundaries—one section containing another, edges meeting edges, some areas open and others enclosed. The composition began to make me think about rooms, buildings and the ways structures organise space.

 

Living and working in Manchester has made architecture particularly present to me. I also found myself thinking about Lagos and Abeokuta, and about what happens when materials connected to one place are reorganised inside a work made somewhere else.

 

I did not want those places to become interchangeable. I became more interested in the framework I was constructing on the canvas.

 

What does a structure protect? What does it organise? And does a structure simply contain what we value, or can it also influence what we learn to notice as valuable?

Material / Process

Coffee is used here as a staining material rather than simply as an image or reference. I work the coffee-dyed textile together with Adire through cutting, layering and bonding onto canvas. The process allows colour, stain, pattern and surface to build the work physically, while tea and coffee enter the work in different ways: one through remembered ritual, the other also as material.

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Print Edition

Limited-edition canvas print, unstretched, in a series of 20 copies.

Dimensions: 20(W) x 20(H) inches

Canvas

Price: £195

Unstretched canvas, shipped. securely in a tube.

Custom print sizes are available as well

The total edition consists of 20 printed pieces.