British-Nigerian artist Ranti Bam’ research into her MA thesis (A dialogue between the known and the experienced) was where she discovered a love for clay as an extraordinary material. Having been raised across two continents, clay has become a way for her to give cohesive form to her multiplicities and thereby fully inhabit the material and spiritual culture of both worlds.
A ferocious reader, Bam is inspired by a passion of etymology and metaphors. The multiple dyads of the symbolic vessel continues to be of significance. Fusing painting, sculpture and performance, Bam explores the literal and the metaphorical; inside and outside, abstraction and figuration, light and the dark, and spirit and form.
Since then, she has exhibited in various experimental venues in the UK, New York, Lagos and Paris to name a few and she has completed residencies at Moly Sabata (Sablons), Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris) and the European Ceramic Work Centre (Netherlands).
Bam’s works are housed in collections including The Brooklyn Museum and The V&A. Bam has been selected for the Liverpool Biennial 2023.
