About

Fella’s song YellowFever, released in 1976 which inspired this work, is a scathing criticism on Skin Bleaching / whitening, which metaphorically connotes Masking by dark skinned individuals.

About the Artist

Onome Daniella Olotu is a Nigerian visual artist. She graduated with a Degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin in 2014. She undefined at the Universal studios of Art, Iganmu and she's currently working on a research-based series - the correlation between history and art.

With an art journey spanning over a decade, using African Masks, Onome's works have been created to shed light on African masks, particularly female masking and ancestorship, identity and skin bleaching and also a juxtaposition of indigenous hairstyles on 21st-century women.

Some of Onome's works are in the collection of Hydrocarbon Advisories and other private collectors in Nigeria and the UK. She has been involved in a myriad of exhibitions and fairs of which some include
Sankofa, Exhibition at the University of British Columbia, 2021; Exploring Covid-19 through the lens of Art; Vilsquare1 Virtual Art Exhibition, 2020; Life in my city art festival, 2019; and many more.