Print2025Private collectionMaze of Uncertainty
Maze of UncertaintyThread and Acrylic on Canvas · 20 × 24 inches
In a private collection
Ile-Ife · Òkùn · Thread painting
A thread
that remembers.
Original thread paintings by Adesakin Mary Damilola — identity, womanhood, and Yoruba heritage, stitched by hand for collectors who linger.
Original works, studio-confirmed availability, and prints by inquiry.
- Originals
- 12
- Exhibitions
- 6
- Prints
- 10
The Ife Muse · 2026View work
The Weight of Words/Maze of Uncertainty/Loud Silence/Visible Within/Hands That Won’t Let Go/The Ife Muse/Beauty in Becoming/The Calm Before Clarity/Rare Like a Blue Rose/The Weight We Carry/In Her Prime/Stitched in Time/The Weight of Words/Maze of Uncertainty/Loud Silence/Visible Within/Hands That Won’t Let Go/The Ife Muse/Beauty in Becoming/The Calm Before Clarity/Rare Like a Blue Rose/The Weight We Carry/In Her Prime/Stitched in Time/
Now on the wall
The Weight of Words
This art piece depicts a man immersed in a newspaper, seated in his private library. The work reflects on media, solitude, and the psychological weight of staying informed in an age of constant updates.
Thread on Canvas · 30 × 32 inches · 2025
Catalogue
Selected works
Print2025Private collection
Print2026ViewGuidance and Control
Hands That Won’t Let GoMixed Media (Thread and Acrylic on Canvas) · 36 × 36 inches
$2,500
Print2025ViewMaze of Uncertainty
The Calm Before ClarityMixed Media (Thread and Acrylic on Canvas) · 20 × 24 inches
$1,000
The making
What painting would blend, thread keeps visible.
01
Ground
Canvas, jute, or linen is stretched and stained. Acrylic is laid as a first weather — the climate the figure will inhabit.
02
The first stitch
A single thread is pulled taut. It is both drawing and wound. Direction is chosen the way a voice chooses a first word.
03
Building the face
Hundreds of passes accumulate into skin, scarification, cloth, and shadow. What painting would blend, thread keeps visible — every decision remains on the surface.
04
Release
Loose strands are left to hang. The work is not sealed against time; it is allowed to breathe, to catch light, to keep a little unfinished truth.
The artist
From Ile-Ife, a language of stitch.
Adesakin Mary Damilola is a Nigerian visual artist from Ile-Ife whose practice focuses on thread painting and acrylic. Born in 2002, she explores identity, memory, Yoruba heritage, womanhood, and emotional repair through layered, hand-stitched compositions.
Trail
Exhibitions
2026SWANS Female ExhibitionSignature Beyond Art Gallery, Lagos
2025La Beauté Vue par les ArtistesParis, France
2025Tola Wewe Art GalleryOndo, Nigeria
2025House of George Art and Craft GalleryNigeria
Collector list
For those who collect quietly.
Inquiries, commissions, and first look at new works. The studio replies personally from Ile-Ife.