Chika Idu (born 1974) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses his art to highlight relations between nature and the human race. With a 20-year studio practice, Idu comments on the the adaptive abilities that humans embody once faced with ecosystems that are foreign to her origin. Upon returning to the exploration of his Swimmer series, Idu is concerned with the interplay between light and darkness which is characterised using a heavy texture and hazy rendition technique he calls ‘light against visual distortion‘. In hopes to exposing the plight of the African child, Idu continues to depicts an energetic flow between the suspended figures and the textured water as a means to connect the optimism of the people who live in these communities and the hope for the betterment of the spaces they inhabit.
Chika Idu is a graduate of the Auchi art School with a major in Painting in 1998. He was instrumental in the creation of the Defactori Studios, a collective of dynamic new generation artists. He also created Nigeria’s first Water Colour Society of Artists (SABLES)