Joseph Olubo
{{short description|British artist and book illustrator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Joseph Olubo
| birth_date = {{birth date|1953|08|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = United Kingdom
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|04|24|1953|08|29|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| nationality = British-Nigerian
| occupation = Artist, illustrator
| partner = Brenda Agard
}}
Joseph Adekunle Olubo, (29 August 1953 {{En dash}} 24 April 1990) was an artist and book illustrator active in the 1980s. He participated in some of the first art exhibitions organized by Black British artists in the United Kingdom.{{cite book |last1=Chambers |first1=Eddie |title=Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s |date=29 July 2014 |publisher=I. B. Tauris & Co. |location=London |isbn=9780857736086 |page=120}} Olubo was one of 22 artists included in the 1983 inaugural exhibition, Heart in Exile, at The Black-Art Gallery, an art space in London which worked with artists of African and Caribbean backgrounds.{{cite book |last1=Chambers |first1=Eddie |title=Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s |date=29 July 2014 |publisher=I. B. Tauris & Co. |location=London |isbn=9780857736086 |page=120}}{{cite web |title=Diaspora-artists: The Black-Art Gallery |url=http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?table=venues&id=14 |website=new.diaspora-artists.net |accessdate=29 April 2019}}
Olubo died on 24 April 1990, aged 36.
Exhibitions
- Heart in Exile: An Exhibition of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Photography by British-based Black Artists at The Black-Art Gallery (London), from September 4 - October 2, 1983.{{cite web |title=Diaspora-artists: Heart in Exile |url=http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?id=241&table=exhibitions&linkphrase=Heart+in+Exile |website=new.diaspora-artists.net |accessdate=29 April 2019}}{{cite book |last1=Keen |first1=Melanie |last2=Ward |first2=Liz |title=Recordings a select bibliography of contemporary african, afro caribbean and asian british art |date=1996 |publisher=Iniva |page=19 |url=https://issuu.com/artslondonlibraries/docs/recordings_-_a_select_bibliography_ |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- ...and Remembering, Remain: An Exhibition of Lithographs, Screenprints and Collage at Royal Festival Hall (London), from June 20 – July 7, 1985.{{cite book |last1=Royal Festival Hall (London |first1=England) |title=... and remembering, remain: an exhibition of lithographs, screenprints and collage |date=1985 |oclc=501473980 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501473980 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English}}
- New Horizons: An Exhibition of Arts at the Royal Festival Hall (London), 1985. Included 61-page exhibition catalog.{{cite book |title=New horizons: an exhibition of arts |date=1985 |publisher=Greater London Council |url=https://library.iniva.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=6625 |accessdate=29 April 2019}}
- Influences: the Art of Sokari Douglas Camp, Keith Piper, Lubaina Himid, Simone Alexander, Joseph Olubo, Brenda Agard at South London Gallery, from September 9-September 29, 1988.{{cite book |title=Influences: the art of Sokari Douglas Camp, Keith Piper, Lubaina Himid, Simone Alexander, Joseph Olubo, Brenda Agard. |date=1988 |oclc=502134650 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502134650 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English}}
- Ask Me No Questions – I Tell You No Lie: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Dedicated to the Memory of Jo Olubo at The Black Art Gallery (London), from September 6 – October 20, 1990. 8-page exhibition catalog.{{cite book |title=Ask me no question-- I tell you no lie: an exhibition of painting & sculpture, 6th Sept - 20th Oct 1990 dedicated to the memory of Jo Olubo. |date=1990 |publisher=Black Art Gallery |oclc=40341014 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40341014 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English}}{{cite journal |title=A Cultural Awakening (review) |journal=West Africa |date=October 15, 1990 |pages=2680}}
- A Cultural Awakening at The Black Gallery (London), an exhibition dedicated to the late Joseph Olubo, featuring the paintings of self-taught Nigerian artist Ademola Akintola, 1990.{{cite book |last1=Black-Art Gallery (London |first1=England) |title=A cultural awakening. |date=1990 |pages=15–21 |oclc=40110516 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40110516 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English}}
Books illustrated
- The Arawaks of Jamaica. [S.l.]: Handprint, 1990. Karl Phillpotts, author. 16 pages. Colville Grant, illustrator; cover drawing by Joseph Olubo.{{cite book |last1=Phillpotts |first1=Karl |title=The Arawaks of Jamaica |date=1990 |publisher=Handprint |isbn=9780947869090 |oclc=493999698 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493999698 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English}}
- So This Is England. London: Peckham Publishing Project (a community-based initiative), 1984, 68 pages.{{cite book |last1=Project |first1=Peckham Publishing |title=So This Is England |date=1984 |publisher=Peckham Publishing Project |isbn=9780906464113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_xVAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=en}}
- Spiderman Anancy. New York: H. Holt, 1989. James Berry, author. The West Indian trickster Anancy and his companions Bro Monkey, Bro Dog, and Bro Tiger are featured collection of twenty tales.{{cite book |last1=Berry |first1=James |last2=Olubo |first2=Joseph |title=Spiderman Anancy |date=1989 |publisher=H. Holt |isbn=9780805012071 |url=https://archive.org/details/spidermananancy00berr |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English |url-access=registration }}
- Nanny of the Maroons, Marjorie Gammon and Karl Phillpotts, authors and Jamaican graphic artist Wilfred Limonious and Joseph Olubo, illustrators. Published by JAMAL Foundation, 1990. Handprint, 20 pages.{{cite book |last1=Adeyomi |first1=Rosenior |title=Ask me no question - I tell you no lie (catalog) |date=1990 |publisher=Black-Art Gallery}}{{cite book |last1=Phillpotts |first1=Karl |last2=Gammon |first2=Marjorie |last3=Limonious |first3=Wilfred |title=Nanny of the Maroons |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29255702 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |language=English |date=1990|oclc=29255702 }}
External resources
- Joseph Adekunle Olubo{{cite web |title=Olubo, Joseph Adekunle |url=http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=12292 |website=216.197.120.164 |accessdate=29 April 2019 |archive-date=2 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302171542/http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=12292 |url-status=dead }} listed on the African American Visual Artists Database.
- Forty-one photographs taken by Phil Polglaze at the South London Art Gallery on 8 September 1988 during the private view of the exhibition Influences: The Art of Sokari Douglas Camp, Keith Piper, Lubaina Himid, Simone Alexander, Joseph Olubo, Brenda Agard. Several photographs are of the artists with his or her artwork, including Olubo.{{cite web |last1=Polglaze |first1=Phil |title=Influences - South London Gallery Archive |url=http://slgarchive.org/index.php/influences |website=slgarchive.org |accessdate=29 April 2019}}