Favour Jonathan

She welds. The pieces come together as patchwork metal, sparks flying, in a practice she traces to the Idumwun-igun-nugboha guild families on Sakpomba Road in Benin City, where she grew up. Her Central Saint Martins degree piece, Ododo and Divinity, a standing female figure with a leopard, went into the school's permanent archive. In 2022 she built a fourteen-meter public sculpture of Ira Aldridge for the National Collection Center in Coventry, and a memorial to Claudia Jones at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton. This spring she was one of ten Edo artists in Back to Benin at Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, an exhibition whose founding act was the museum returning its only Benin plaque to Oba Ewuare II in November 2025. Public commissions at that scale, an archive acquisition, and still no gallery representation.