Slawn | Lagos Worldwide British Landmarks Art where he deconstructs traditional portraiture

where he deconstructs traditional portraiture through a lens of vibrant colour studies and intense light

Original lithographs | 1983 | Published 1990

from jazz musicians of the mid-twentieth century to the downtown New York art world of the late 1970s and 80s

with the same physical intensity and precision that defines the sport he paints

one more act of will

Slawn | Lagos Worldwide British Landmarks Art where he deconstructs traditional portraitureSlawn (Olaolu Akeredolu Ale, b. 2000) Lagos Worldwide Limited edition Lagos is where Slawn's story begins the Nigerian megalopolis where he grew up, where he discovered Wafflesncream, Nigeria's first skate shop, where he met the friends who would become Motherlan, the apparel group that brought his work to international attention before he had made a single painting. Lagos carries the full weight of his origin in the Worldwide series: this is the city