Content: Japhet Alakam, Vanguard News and http : //www.thisdaylive.com
The Life in my City Arts and Festival has wormed its way for 8th years now, bringing back arts into the Nigerian society, whose aim is to promote art pan-Nigeria through an annual competition that offers opportunity for young people to showcase and commercialise their productions, to win handsome prizes and interact with the larger art community on a national platform. The 2014 Life in My City Arts and Festival awards went through successfully, with a lot of dignitaries on board, with the likes of the art loving monarch and patron of LIMCAF, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, the Obi of Onitsha, with other art patrons like the founder of LIMCAF, Robert Orji, Elder Kalu Uka, chairman of the board, French Ambassador to Nigeria represented by the Cultural Attache, Monsieur Jacques Montourcy, Nkeoma Nmazili, who represented Diamond Bank, the major sponsor and others, Besides attracting eminent art personalities to its jury, the event had also garnered increasing nationwide support from notable organisations and individuals like Senator Ayogu Eze, the Justice Anthony Aniagolu family in Enugu, the Alliance Française network, the French Embassy, Diamond Bank, Olabisi Silva’s Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos and Mrs Mfon Usoro , among others, who had endowed special prizes for the festival cum competition. In addition, its recent foray into the Lagos exhibition circuit had elicited the interest of the notable art collector, Omo’oba Yemisi Shyllon.
The 2014 festival started with the opening of the Limcaf 2014 grand finale featuring top 100 artworks selected from a total of 138 works that qualified for the 8 zones at the National Gallery of Art, Enugu on October 20. The winning work, Intriguing the illusion that this contrivance of clay beads, suspended on iron frames by transparent strings, was encased in glass, a young mother of two Ngozi Appolonia Omeje received a cheque of Five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) as the overall winner, who titled her art work “Placenta”. Placenta? Could the artist, Ngozi Appolonia Omeje, be sharing some distant ante-natal experience with her audience? If this was how the scanned image of her foetus looked in her womb, why take the trouble to contrive it with so many clay beads? Among these other prizes were the Best Painting/Mixed-media/Drawing Prize won by Brenda Emmanuel Chinonso, the Best Photography/ Multimedia/Video won by Chiemela Peter Mgbeahuru, the Best Graphics/Textile won by Onyedika Peter Okonkwo, the Justice Aniagolu Prize for Originality won by Onyinye M. Ezennia, the CCA Lagos Prize for Best Lagos Entry won by Afegbua Ibrahim, the Mfon Usoro Prize for the Best Entry Uyo/Calabar Entry won by Essang Etim Effiong, the Enugu State Council for Art and Culture Prize won by Candidus Onyishi , the Art Is Everywhere Prize won by Olumide Luke Onadipe and the Vin Martin Ilo Prize for the Best Enugu Entry won by Nzubechi Ideyi. There were also consolation prizes for others whose works were shortlisted for the finals.
The three leading prizes — the Best Painting/Mixed-media/Drawing , Best Photography/Multimedia/Video and Best Graphics/Textile — each worth N250,000 , were tailed by the other prizes were worth N100,000 each and a couple of prizes —Art Is Everywhere Prize and Vin Martin Ilo Prize for the Best Enugu Entry worth N50,000.
The sifting of the best works were given to A five-man jury consisting of Dr George Odoh, Dr Helen Uhunmwagho, Jacques Montourcy, Dr Ken Okoli and Dr Kunle Filani, who were described as “five experienced artists, scholars and culture experts”.
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