The Kensington News and West London Times, Friday, July 19, 1957
PAINTINGS BY A NIGERIAN SCULPTOR
An exhibition of sculpture by Felix Idubor, a Nigerian sculptor, is being held in the Pavilion of the Imperial Institute from 13th-28th July. Mondays-Fridays 10 am, to 4.30 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m.-5 ั.ั. Sundays 2.30 to 6 p.m. Admission is free.
The exhibition was formally opened on Monday by M. T. Mbu, Esq., Commissioner in London for the Federation of Nigeria.
Felix Idubor was born in 1928 in Benin City in the Western Region of Nigeria. Although he speaks English fluently, he received very little formal education. His art is entirely natural and self-taught. At the age of 12 he began to earn his living through his carving which he had started four years earlier. He established a reputation as a wood-carver in his native city and in 1945 he moved to Lagos, capital of Nigeria, where he became known to a wider public both in Nigeria and overseas.
Approximately forty of his carvings will be on show. They are in traditional style and the materials used are mainly the woods from his native country-black ebony, opepe, obeche, iroko and black afara.
