Ranti Bam is a native of Lagos, Nigeria and currently lives and works in London. 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 and sculpture, Bam explores the literal and the metaphorical; inside and outside, abstraction and figuration, light and the dark, and spirit and form. She has come to observe her works function publicly as ‘hearths’, objects around which an audience gathers in contemplation, meditation and discourse.
