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In the Name of Rest and Love

4/13/2014

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Olanrewaju Tejuoso

Olanrewaju Tejuoso  is an Abeokuta, Nigeria based artist who uses wastes such as discarded sachet water bags, empty cans and packets of beverages and fast food wrappers for his sculptures and installations. 
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He uses trashed materials to call attention to the imbalances being exerted by man’s domestic and industrial activities on the earth’s ecosystem.

Working with materials from his immediate environment and employing basic processes such as tying, folding, stitching, and gumming, his creative works show marked inventiveness and expressive force in the light of current debates and discourses on climate and environmental changes.


“I love what I do, financially rewarding or not. I dropped painting for exploration with wastes because I want to affect people more and I feel this kind of art will help me do that better and change my environmental degradation. There is something inside me which makes me believe God is pushing me to do it as my own contribution toward the well being of the society. I thought of rest and love. I want to give rest to people.” ~ Olanrewaju Tejuoso

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Olusegun Adeniyi link
4/13/2014 07:00:43 am

This a brilliant spotlight for a creative adventure. Thank you

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Betsey Merkel link
7/29/2014 01:37:23 am

Wonderful clip to learn the back story of Olanrewaju's creative work - WASTE2WEALTH 001: Olanrewaju Tejuoso Nigeria artist uses polythene rubber paper wood metal as materials artwork http://ln.is/youtu.be/bLHbg

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Olanrewaju Tejuoso
10/17/2014 07:54:28 pm

Am sort of words for I do not know that God can provide me with some people in live who will take up my yoke as there own and still be so committed with it. Thank so much all of such people in my life you know your self's and God knows you. More grace to us all.




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Olanrewaju Tejuoso
10/17/2014 07:56:48 pm

Am sort of words for I do not know that God can provide me with some people in live who will take up my yoke as there own and still be so committed with it. Thank so much all of such people in my life you know your self's and God knows you. More grace to us all.




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OBANOYE SAMUEL O
10/18/2014 01:34:16 am

Am very happy to see you exploiting your creative concept to the whole world as part of your legendary quota contribution to Art International and globally. "From Waste to Wealth".

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Adeola Goloba link
3/23/2015 04:43:16 am

This is a very powerful statement coming from Olanrewaju through his distinctive kind of installation art. Sincerely, Olanrewaju's art succinctly addresses the current burden of global warming and the grave challenges that the international communities are facing in tackling it. It is high time every one of us wake up to our responsibility of saving our God-given natural environment from further degredation as a result of our rash activities. I think this artist have ingenuelly through his artistically creative imaginative intelligence provided us with a new wisdom as well as alternative solution to this nagging problem of climate change. I hope we will all key in to this and hereforth take practical action in getting out of our woods for good. I am very confident that doing this, our would become a better place to live. Thank you Lanre, for sharing. That was Dope!!!

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