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The Woman
with the
Artistic Brush

Nik Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the womans place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it, this book covers Niks life from the time of her mothers death when Nik was six to the culmination of her dream in the creation, against severe societal odds, of a center for arts and culture that has over 120 members. Along the way, The Woman with the Artistic Brush details how Nik ran away from home and joined a traveling theater group after her father tried to arrange her marriage, subsequently married and joined in the polygynous household of a noted artist from the popular Oogbo school, and finally broke clear of that situation after suffering sixteen years of domestic violence. The Woman with the Artistic Brush is another superb contribution to the Foremother Legacies series.

Autobiographies and Memoirs of Women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America
Geraldine Forbes, Series Editor

SHUDHA MAZUMDAR
MEMOIRS OF AN INDIAN WOMAN
Edited with an Introduction by Geraldine Forbes

CHEN XUEZHAO
SURVIVING THE STORM
A Memoir
Edited with an Introduction by Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Translated by Ti Hua and Caroline Greene

KANEKO FUMIKO
THE PRISON MEMOIRS OF A JAPANESE WOMAN
Translated by Jean Inglis
Introduction by Mikiso Hane

MANMOHINI ZUTSHI SAHGAL
AN INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER RECALLS HER LIFE
Edited by Geraldine Forbes
Foreword by B.K. Nehru

THE WOMAN WITH THE ARTISTIC BRUSH
A Life History of Yoruba Batik Artist Nike Davies
Kim Marie Vaz

The Woman
with the
Artistic Brush

A Life History of Yoruba
Batik Artist Nik Davies

Kim Marie Vaz

An East Gate Book

First published 1995 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1995 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notices
No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use of operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.

Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

An accompanying video to Nik Daviess life history narrative, titled Batiks by Nik, is available from Video and Film Distribution, Student Services Building, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vaz, Kim Marie.

The woman with the artistic brush : a life history of Yoruba batik
artist Nik Davies / Kim Marie Vaz.

p. cm.(Foremother legacies)

An East Gate book.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 1-56324-506-X ISBN 1-56324-507-8 (pbk.)

1. Davies, Nik.
2. Textile designersNigeriaBiography.
3. BatikNigeria.
4. Yoruba (African people)Social life and customs.

I. Title.

II. Series.

NK9503.2.N64D3838 1994

746.662092dc20

[B] 94-22897

CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563245077 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563245060 (hbk)

For my daughter,
Iya (Iyamide) Vaz-Kale

Contents

Fly lit upon glowing brass tray

fancied [her]self king

of reflected glory

Made Ifa for Sacrifice-to-divinity-before-darkness,

slave of Alapa the destroyer.

Can I get out from under?

Maybe. Sacrifice accomplishes wonders.

What then? Six pigeons, six hens, six shillings, and a bar of soap.

[S]he sacrificed. They fixed medicinal leaves,

asked [her] to bathe with them, saying

that all things denied would now be [hers]

money, progeny, buildings to house them, fame.

[S]he sacrificed again, had recourse to Ifa regularly,

and from then on, small jobs brought in big money.

[S]he started building houses to accommodate

more [artists], more children,

and people were amazed:

We thought Sacrifice-to-divinity-before-darkness

was but a slave,

now look at [her].

How did [s]he come to be

such an important person?

and the people said, Ha,

come and see what this slave has accomplished.

for [s]he, no [daughter] of the manor,

has become a local celebrity

and the people said,

[S]he is fit to wear beads,

come look at [her] qualifications;

singing and dancing

graced with distinction

come and see how beads would reflect

[her] authority.

Greetings for sacrifice offered and received, Greetings!

[Italics in original.]

From Judith Gleason,

The orthography used in the book is the style recommended by the Yoruba Orthography Committee. Consonants in Yoruba are represented by these symbols: b d f g gb h k l m n p r s t w y. The consonant gb has no equivalent in English but the g is guttural and pronounced slightly before the b. The consonant p stands for kp in which k and p are pronounced at the same time. The consonant is pronounced like the English sh. Non-nasalized or oral vowels include: a e i o u. The vowel a is similar to the English ah. The vowels e, i, and o are pronounced like the long a, e, and o in English and u is similar to the English oo. The vowels and resemble the English sound eh and aw, respectively. When n appears at the beginning of a word, its sound is similar to the n in English. Adding an n to the oral vowels indicates that the vowel preceding it is nasalized.

Many thanks are due to Kik dyemi for her assistance in translation during the interviews with Muniratu Bello in 1988. Thanks to Omiore Omiakin for his translations during various interviews in Oogbo, Oun State, and Ogidi, Kawara State. For his fastidiousness in the translation and transcription of all the taped interviews conducted in Yoruba in 1988, for his interest in the project, and for his sheer dedication, I give my profuse and heartfelt thanks to Michael Abidun Oduntan. His translation notes were extremely helpful. The following artists kindly granted me interviews regarding the Oogbo School of Artists: Georgina Beier, Suzanne Wenger, and Jimoh Buraimoh, as did scholar Ulli Beier. I am indebted to the senior and junior faculty and staff members of the Faculty of Social Sciences, bafmi Awolw University, Ile-If, for their generosity and kindness during my stay in 1988.

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