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Uzo Egonu
Uzo Egonu (25 December 1931–14 August 1996) was a Nigerian-born artist who settled in Britain in the 1940s,〔("Uzo Egonu" ), Diaspora Artists.〕 only once returning to his homeland for two days in the 1970s,〔Ulrich Clewing, ("Three hues for Piccadilly Circus" ), Culturebase.net, 22 June 2003.〕 although he remained concerned with African political struggles.〔("Uzo Egonu, Artist" ), InIVA.〕 According to Rasheed Araeen, Egonu was "perhaps the first person from Africa, Asia or the Caribbean to come to Britain after the War with the sole intention of becoming an artist."〔Rasheed Araeen, "Recovering Cultural Metaphors", ''The Other Story'' catalogue, 1989, p. 86.〕
==Biography==
Born in Onitsha,〔 Nigeria, Egonu was in his early teens when in 1945 he first travelled to England.〔 Having already begun to draw while attending Sacred Heart College, Calabar〔Rasheed Araeen, ("Uzo Egonu 1931–1996" ), ''Third Text'', Volume 10, Issue 36, 1996, pp. 105–106. DOI:10.1080/09528829608576634.〕 before leaving for the UK, he eventually studied Fine Arts and Typography at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London,〔〔 from 1949 to 1952,〔(" The Creative Case for Diversity in Britain > Further reading on the Artists" ), ''Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture''.〕 and went on to participate in a number of exhibitions.〔
In 1977, he was among the Black artists and photographers whose work represented the UK at the Second World Festival of Black Arts and African Culture (Festac '77) in Lagos, Nigeria (the others being Winston Branch, Ronald Moody, Mercian Carrena, Armet Francis, Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, Neil Kenlock, Donald Locke, Cyprian Mandala, Ossie Murray, Sue Smock, Lance Watson and Aubrey Williams).〔("Festac (Second Festival of Black Arts and Culture)" ), Tate.〕〔Eddie Chambers, ''Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s'', I.B. Tauris, 2014, pp. 42–43, 58.〕 Egonu was also included in two major 20th-century exhibitions featuring Black British artists: in 1989 the landmark show at London's Hayward Gallery, ''The Other Story'', and seven years later ''Transforming the Crown'', curated by the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York. He was a member of the Rainbow Art Group, an initiative set up in 1978, which mounted several exhibitions.〔("Rainbow Art Group" ), Diaspora Artists.〕
In later years he suffered two heart attacks and deteriorating eyesight, and on 14 August 1996 he died in London.〔("Monographs on African Artists| Egonu, Uzo, 1931-1996" ), Smithsonian Libraries.〕
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