Ibadan Book Club holds Busari Agbolade Memorial Lecture

IBADAN BOOK CLUB HOLDS BUSARI AGBOLADE MEMORIAL LECTURE

 

Ibadan Book Club in conjunction with AZA Artists and Writers Movement will hold its annual Busari Agbolade Memorial Lecture in honour of one of its Patrons and the former Chairman of AZA Writers and Artists Movement, Busari Olaniyi Agbolade who died around April of last year.

The lecture holds on Saturday, May 29, 2021.

This was contained in a statement jointly issued by Ayobami Odunayo and Gboye Abidoye, representatives of the Ibadan Book Club and AZA Artists and Writers Movement in Ibadan on Monday.

The lecture, which will hold at the Main Hall of the Oyo State Library Board by 12:00PM Prompt.

The Memorial lecture will be delivered by Murthada O. Lawal on the topic: “Extending Creative Legacy”.

Busari Olaniyi Agbolade, a professional painter, steel fabricator was born on 13th July, 1948. He attended A.U.D Primary School, Ila Orangun from 1955-1960, L.A Secondary School, Ila Orangun from 1961-1963. He later enrolled as apprentice under Adegoke Metal Construction Company from 1965 to 1967.

He worked with Niger West Construction Company, Niger Dam Authority and Uren Construction Engineering Company between 1969 and 1975. In 1976, He studies Aluminium and Copper Artistic Panel Beating under the tutelage of Yekini Agboola, an apprentice to Chief Ashiru Olatunde of Osogbo School.

 

He joined the Abayomi Barber School of Thought of the University of Lagos to study painting in 1980. He worked with the University of Lagos from 1980 and resigned his appointment in 1993 to become a full time artist.

 

He has participated in several exhibitions such as Barber School Exhibition sponsored by N.C.A.C in 1984, Benue State Art Exhibition – 1985, Lagos State Art Council – 1986, “ Man in Focus” exhibition by Federal Department of Culture – 1086, Exhibition of Paintings and Batiks by three Nigerian Artists in Dakar – Senegal 1987.

 

Exhibition of Paintings, Batiks, Carvings and Ceramics by Six Nigerian Artists with 843 Studio Gallery, East New York, U.S.A from October-December 1988 Lagos State Chapter of S.N.A. Annual exhibition from 1991-2009.

 

Some of his commissioedn works are:- Portraits of HRH Aholu Menu Toyi, Akran of Badagry, Orangun of Ila, Oba William Adetona Ayeni and other prominent Nigerians both home and abroad. Painting of “Mother and Child” commissioned by 843 Studio Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 

 

Some of his works (paintings) can be viewed at https://artsfocus.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/electronic-exhibition-of-mr-busari-olaniyi-agbolades-painting-works/. Before his death, Elder Busari Olaniyi Agbolade was the Chairman of AZA Artists and Writers Movement.