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Guitar
Gypsy by Olusegun Adejumo
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By Udemma Chukwuma
As part
of activities to celebrate its 100 years of existence, the management of Union
Bank of Nigeria in partnership with One Draw gallery is offering artists the opportunity
to win the sum of one million Naira cash prize in their Centenary Art Challenge.
The Managing
Director of the bank, Mr. Emeka Emuwa made this announcement on Friday at the
official launch of the competition, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria.
According to him, all it takes for any interested artist to win the money, is to interpret the stallion
logo of the bank with any medium of their choice and submit the image of the artwork to their website.
The competition
with a theme Interpretation of the Union Bank Stallion,
he disclosed, will be open for a period of four months for entries. He adding that they are eager to
know what the artists would come up with. “What we are looking for, which is
why we are launching this centenary art challenge is what the artists’ interpretation
of the stallion would be? We have no idea of what it would look like, but we
are looking forward to seeing what the artists will come up with.
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From left: Emuwa, Lola
Cardoso, Adejumo and a staff of the bank at the launch
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“Union
Bank has a storied history in Nigeria and our 100th anniversary is a unique
opportunity to tell our story to different audiences. Artists are storytellers
and this competition presents an opportunity to this community to help us tell
our story from the vantage of our iconic white stallion.We are excited to
celebrate the many stories that will come across through the works that will be
entered in the competition.”
The director of One Draw gallery,
and president of the Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria (GFA),
Olusegun Adejumo, said calls for entries are in two categories. The first
category, he informed, is for professional artists from the ages of twenty-five
and above, while the second category is for undergraduate art students across
the country.
Adejumo
said the undergraduates are being engaged in the art challenge as they
are the future.
He intemated that 200 works will be selected
from the entries and the final 100 winning artworks will be on display for public viewing. “The competition is just to push to the limit what
creativity can do to the stallion logo. To interpret the logo is the challenge,
but the idea is to engage the community.”
For the
professional category, N1m is up for grabs for the winner, N500,000 for second
prize and N250,000 for third prize. The student star prize is N250,000.
The competition endorsed by GFA will run from June to September, 2017. To
apply, visit: www.unionbankng.com/100
