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By Rita Okoye
Multidisciplinary visual artist Goodluck Jane captivated audiences at the ARTX Lagos 2025, presenting a carefully curated selection of her textile-infused mixed media works that explore identity, memory, and the human form through innovative engagement with Ankara fabric.
Celebrated for her distinctive integration of cut fabric silhouettes, layered drawings, and paintings, Jane’s practice transforms traditional textile into a narrative medium.
At the ARTX Lagos, she presented highlights including “Echoes in Wax and Skin”, “Ankara Stories”, and “Stories The Fabric Told Me”, works that reveal her meticulous interplay of pattern, texture, and layered composition. In these pieces, Ankara fabric functions as language.
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It also goes to articulate heritage, emotion, and lived experience across
visual planes. “Each piece is a negotiation between instinct and structure,” Jane explains. “Fabric is
my vocabulary. It speaks, interrupts, and converses with paint and line, to shape
narratives that are both personal and collective.”
Jane’s participation at ARTX Lagos 2025 went beyond exhibition. She also engaged in the fair’s professional development programs, as she shared insights and approaches with rising artists, to foster dialogue around material innovation, interdisciplinary
practice, and African visual language in contemporary art. Her presence showed a growing recognition of textile-based fine art as a critical force within Africa’s artistic landscape.
Since beginning her professional career in 2021, Jane has exhibited extensively across Nigeria and internationally, with solo exhibitions including: “When Fabric Becomes Language” at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya, 2021; “Ankara
in Harmony” at Nike Art Gallery, Abuja, Nigeria, September 8th – 12th, 2025; “Stitched Between Worlds” at Rele Gallery, London, 2024; “Echoes in Wax and Skin” at Gallery 1957, Ghana February 19th – 25th, 2023.
Her work has drawn praise from prominent figures in the art world such as the Art historian and artist Bolaji Campbell who called it “phenomenal
For visitors, critics, and collectors, Jane’s works at the ARTX Lagos 2025 offered a
tactile, immersive experience, inviting viewers to witness textile as narrative, material as memory, and fabric as philosophy.
