Publications

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Layiwola, Peju (2017). “Transcultural Conversations: American Art and Nigerian Art in Dialogue”., NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art-41, 140- 152.

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Layiwola, Peju (2014). “Making Meaning from a Fragmented Past: 1897 and the Creative Process, Disturbing Pasts: Memories, controversies and Creativity”. Open Arts Journal, Summer Issue 3, 86-96.

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Layiwola, Peju (2014). “A Walk through the Hearth”. In Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon. Ed. Toyin Falola, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina. .

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Layiwola, Peju (2013). “Dele Jegede and His Enduring Legacy at the University of Lagos” In Parodies of a Nation: Nigeria and the Art of Dele Jegede, Eds. Aderonke Adesola Adesanya and Toyin Falola, New Jersey: Africa World Press

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Layiwola, Peju (2013). “Dele Jegede and His Enduring Legacy at the University of Lagos” In Parodies of a Nation: Nigeria and the Art of Dele Jegede, Eds. Aderonke Adesola Adesanya and Toyin Falola, New Jersey: Africa World Press

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Layiwola Peju (2010). “Lace Culture and the Art of Dressing Well in Nigeria”, In African Lace: A History of Trade, Creativity and Fashion in Nigeria, Eds. Barbara Plankensteiner and Mayo Adediran, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna (Museum fur Volkerkunde,), National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria, Snoeck Publishers, Rudy Vecruysse, Ghent,. 167-180.

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Layiwola, Adepeju (2007). “Benin Massacre: Memories and Experiences”, Benin Kings and Rituals, Court Arts from Nigeria, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna (Museum fur Volkerkunde Wien), Museum Qua Branly (Paris), Ethnologishes Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Art Institute Chicago, Ed. Barbara Plankensteiner, Snoeck Publishers, Ghent: Rudy Vecruysse..

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Layiwola Peju (2006). “Tangible Heritage in Nigeria”. In ‘Nigeria: Cultural and Natural Heritage, A Unesco World Heritage publication, Ed. Rafael Valencia, Librose, Copernic, Viking, Barcelona, Spain.

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Layiwola, Peju (1997). “Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Bronze Casting in Benin, Nigeria”. In Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, Ed. Stephanie Newell,

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Layiwola, Peju (2016). “Art at the Heart of Giving: Bruce Onobrakpeya and the Harmattan Workshop”. In Retrospect: Onobrakpeya and the Harmattan Workshop, SMO Contemporary, (September 16-December 16, 2016), Lagos Court of Arbitration, Lagos.

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Layiwola, Peju (2015). “Whose Centenary? Public Art Project as an Expression of Colonial Memory”. Nigeria Field Society Journal, No 80,. 51-68.

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Layiwola, Peju (2015). “Ben Enwonwu’s The Risen Christ as a Religious Icon at the University Of Ibadan” In The City State of Ibadan: Text and Context Ed. Dele Layiwola, A publication of the Institute of African Studies, Ibadan: University of Ibadan/ Bookbuilders

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Layiwola, Peju (2015). “Walker and the Restitution of Two Benin Bronzes”, Eyo: Journal of the Arts and Humanities, , 175-185.

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Layiwola, Peju (2014). “Clad in Gold: The Art of the Jewel Smith in Ibadan”. African Notes, vol 33, No. 1&2, 18-26.

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Layiwola Peju ((2012). “Welding the Lethal to the Unusual: Olu Amoda and the Art of Metal Assemblage”, Cequel: Shattering the Barriers of Artistic Conventions, Ed. Ohioma Ifuonu Pogoson, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. Pp. 112-123.

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Layiwola, Peju (2010). “Resurrecting the Disappeared: A Recontextualisation of 1897”, Benin 1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question, Eds. Peju Layiwola and Sola Olorunyomi, Ibadan: Wy Art Editions *Reviewed on H-Net net list serve of worldwide African and Africanist scholars. Review by Joseph Nevadomsky ‘The Art of Benin Repatriation and the Reparation of Benin Art’, H-Net reviews, October 2010. My major contribution to art scholarship that defines the trajectory of my art practice and research in the last ten years. This also includes a catalogue of my solo exhibition held in Lagos and Ibadan. Pp. 109-316.

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Layiwola, Peju (2010). “The Visual Arts of Nigeria and the Global Encounter”., In International Art Expo, Abuja: National Gallery of Arts.

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Layiwola, Peju (2009). “Calabashes as Receptacles of Traditional Medicine and Repositories of Culture Amongst the Yoruba People Of Southwestern Nigeria”. in A Textbook of Medicinal Plants In Nigeria, Ed. Tolu Odugbemi, Lagos: University of Lagos Press.

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Layiwola, Peju (2009). “New Forms of Commemoration: Royal Textiles of Benin. The Nigerian Field, Vol. 74, 1 and 2, 5-19.

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Layiwola, Peju (2009). “The Restitution of Cultural Artefacts: The Case of Benin, a Case for Nigeria”, Journal of Environment and Culture, Vol. 6, 1 and 2, 33-43.

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Layiwola, Peju (2009). “The Transformative and the Crosscultural Nature of Onobrakpeya’s Jewelry”. Jewels of Nomadic Images. Lagos: Ovuomaroro Gallery

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Layiwola Peju (2008). “Reviewing the Curriculum of Creative Arts in Nigerian Universities” Art Monitor,. 19-27.

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Layiwola, Peju and Biayere, Kunle (2007). “The Politics of Memory in the Dramatic Space: Two Distant Views of Ovonramwen N’ogbaisi”. in Revisiting History Through the Arts, Ed. Peju Layiwola, Abuja: National Gallery of Arts.

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Layiwola, Peju (2007). “The Women in My Life: Re (presenting) The Image of Women in the Paintings of Joe Musa”. In Joe Musa Recent Works. Abuja: National Gallery of Arts

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Layiwola, Peju (2007). “Nigerian Artists Reinterpreting Hellenic Images” In Hellenic Images and Fifty-Four Nigerian Masters in Translation, Lagos: the Embassy of Greece in Nigeria/Society of Nigerian Artists.

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Layiwola, Adepeju (2005). “Depicting Illusion as Reality: the Role of the Visual Designer in the Development of Theatre Practice in Nigeria” Sonta Journal, Vol 8, Nos 1, 105- 112.

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Layiwola, Peju (2005). “Continuity and Change in Benin Brass Casting. Revue Quest Africaine d’ Archeologie/ West African Archeological Association (WAJA), Vol. 35, 1 and 2, 89-104.

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Layiwola, Peju (2003). “Gnosis and the Transmission of Artistic Knowledge: the Example of the Brass Casters’ Guild in Benin”. In Modern History of Visual Arts in Southern Nigeria, Ed. Laurent Fourchard, Ibadan: IFRA Monograph Series

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Layiwola, Peju (2002). “Metal Casting as a Sculpture Tradition in Contemporary Nigeria: An Overview” In Agbarha-Otor 2002: Rhythms of the Forge, Lagos: Ovuomaroro Gallery

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Layiwola, Peju (2001). “Africa and Her Diaspora: Three Female Artists in Contemporary Perspective”. Nigerian Art Reflections, Vol. 1, 87-94.

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,Layiwola, Peju (2007). “An Art School of First Choice has emerged” In The Book of Evolution; An Exhibition Brochure of the Graduating Class of 2007. Lagos: Visual Arts, Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos.

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Layiwola, Peju (2007). “From the Sixth to the Seventh, Still Forging on” In Articulation: An Exhibition Brochure of the graduating class of 2007/2008, Lagos: Visual Arts, Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos. The exhibition held on Monday 17th October to Friday, 5th November 2008, at Main Auditorium Foyer, University of Lagos.

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Layiwola, Peju. “Festivals and the Sustenance of a Collective Memory”. A Review of A calendar of Traditional Nigerian Festivals by Frank Aig-Imuokhuede, Eyo 20, Vol 2.

Apart from my publications, a number of critical essays have engaged my art
as well as the trajectory of my art scholarship over time.
A few of these are listed below

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Antawan, Bryan (2014) “Peju Layiwola”. In Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes, London: Phaidon Press.

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Blackmun, Barbara Winston (2013) “Contemporary Contradictions: Bronzecasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin”. In A Companion to Modern African Art, First Edition, Eds. Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visona, London: John Wiley Blackwell and Sons, Inc.

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High, Frieda (2010) “Benin1897.com: Peju Layiwola’s Metamonument”. In Benin 1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question, Eds. Peju Layiwola and Sola Olorunyomi, Ibadan: WyArt Editions

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Tobenna Okwuosa (2017) “Peju Layiwola’s Art: An Engagement with Benin History and the 1897 Tragedy”. In The Art of Nigerian Women, USA: Ben Bosah Books