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Seun Oyedele: "Everybody has an unfair advantage. Look for it." Seun Oyedele is a textile designer based in Lagos, Nigeria and owner of fashion and textile brand Seun’dele. “Seun’dele started because I spotted a problem, and that problem was that I didn't see any prints that felt like me. All the prints I saw were either too rigid, too stuck in the same colour conversations, or too traditional. And as someone who is an artist, who's obsessed with colour, with pattern, with ju

Joyce Peters Joyce Peters: "I feel like it's a disservice to myself and the world to have all these ideas and not do anything about it." Joyce Peters is a fine art photographer and artist based in the UK. She has been active in the industry for 11 years and for about a year and a half has been selling art and creating stylised self-portraits. The creative says she first felt inspired to take up the art in 2014 when she was in university. “It was actually my friends who encour

Patendoyart Patendoyart: "I think the fact that even one single person has told me that they're inspired by the work I create is enough to keep me creating." Patendoyart is Nigerian abstract motif artist and designer based in London. The painter's paten motif which she started drawing in 2022 appears across a wide variety of mediums from canvas to clothing. “Paten is one of my nicknames, it's a nice coincidence that paten sound a bit like pattern.” She says though she does

Fade the Healer Fade the Healer : "Know what your sound is and stay true to it, whoever gravitates towards it will" Fade the Healer is a Nigerian singer and song writer based in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2022 following the encouragement of friends and family she made her official debut as an independent afro-pop, afro-soul musician, though she says she "still doesn't know how to describe my genre." “I think music is something I was always going to do. Even as a child I was in cho