Title: The Drummer’s Silence (2020 – Nigeira)
👩🏽‍🎨 Artist: Aisha Tunde (b. 1987)
🖌️ Medium: Oil & Charcoal on Handmade Bark Cloth
📏 Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
💰 Valuation: £350,000 GBP
📍 Provenance: Lagos Studio Residency → Lagos Museum → Giddi Group Foundation

🔍 Description:
Aisha Tunde’s The Drummer’s Silence is a deeply symbolic work exploring the erosion of Lagos’s Yoruba traditions in the New era. Painted on sacred bark cloth during her acclaimed Lagos Residency, it features a solitary drummer in stillness—surrounded by fading ancestral forms and etched.

🌍 Cultural Significance:

• Final available piece from Tunde’s 10-work bark cloth series
• Featured in Art Africa Magazine as “a preservation of memory on a dying material”
• Highlighted in the 2023 African Diaspora Visual Voices series

📦 Condition & Inclusions:
Stored in a humidity-controlled archive in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.
Includes:
• Digital Certificate of Ownership
• Artist’s creation photos
• Signed authenticity statement by Aisha Tunde

🏛️ Acquisition:
Exclusively offered through the Global Heritage Art Foundation’s Global Distribution Initiative.