Statement
My Paintings, Sculptures, and Installations explore transformation and innovation while communicating playfulness and quiet enjoyment.
I engage the histories that are fixed in used things, which tell of our lived lives held within them, as they have witnessed these. They bear our past and present actions, and in their tale about these, they reveal our future. They embody memory. I investigate and try to fathom this memory and experience.
My work is inspired by people- living (actions) and the everyday. Influenced by architecture and design—lines, shapes, forms, and the histories of ordinary, mundane materials-, I enjoy innovation and participation. I create unique, quirky artworks that reference human actions and activities in society, and how these affect the general human condition.
I live and work in a quiet neighbourhood outside Abuja, Nigeria, where I find freedom and delight in assembling local found materials into objects of contemplation that I sometimes invite my audiences to contribute to. Experimentation, an affinity for fabrics, and curiosity with colour and movement drive me.
I explore fibres in found used fabrics; naturally occurring fibres in local food plants - okra, sugarcane, sisal, banana - made into handmade paper; fibres in thread and used cartons; synthetic fibres/plastic in recovered cigarette filters, and used plastic bags.
Bio
Amarachi Okafor is a multi-disciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and participatory events. Her practice explores transformation, memory, and human activity through the reuse of everyday materials. Amarachi Okafor works under the studio name Orie Studio.
Her work often begins with objects that carry traces of use, cigarette filters, paper, fabrics, and plastic bags, which she reworks into sculptural forms and installations. These materials, shaped by human action, become carriers of memory and experience, revealing quiet stories about how we live and interact with the world around us.
Alongside object-based work, she develops participatory and relational projects that invite audiences to engage directly with materials and processes. Through these shared acts of making, the work reflects on collective experience, labour, and social exchange.
She lives and works in Nigeria, where she gathers local materials and develops projects rooted in everyday environments. Her practice moves between studio production, public interaction, and exhibition contexts.