Kensington Post – Friday 19 July 1957
SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
An exhibition of sculpture by Felix Idubor is being held in the Pavilion of the Imperial Institute until July 28.
The exhibition was formally opened on Monday by M.T. Mbu. Commissioner in London For the Federation of Nigeria. The artist was present.
Idubor held his first one-man exhibition at the Exhibition Centre, Lagos, under the auspices of the British Council in 1953.
In 1954 he was awarded a silver medal and two certificates of merit at the Nigerian Festival of the Arts
He was commissioned by the Federal Government to carve a casket for presentation to the Queen as a souvenir of Her Majesty’s visit to Nigeria. By gracious permission of Her Majesty this casket is on view at the Imperial Institute exhibition.
Approximately forty of Idubor’s carvings are on show.
They are in traditional style and the materials he uses are mainly the woods from his native country black ebony. opepe, obeche. iroke and black afara.
