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O Yemi Tubi (MOYAT) - Hunger in the Land of Plenty - Oil on canvas 2015 Jaywick, Clacton-On-Sea - SHIPS FROM Jaywick, Clacton-On-Sea “Hunger in the Land of Plenty” is saying something about the paradoxical situation of Africa- a continent blessed with many natural resources but still poor. In the foreground, I put an African mother breastfeeding her baby while there are two empty bowls in front of her with nothing to feed herself. Surrounded with drought afflicted land, dead vegetation and livestock. In the middle ground is a woman tilling the dry ground with her crude tool, a hoe The background shows fertile part of Africa that produces enough food to feed the people of the land but the products are exported to other parts of the world. At the top left corner of the painting, I put a cargo ship that takes African products to other parts of the world. African’s natural resources and agricultural products are being exported leaving Africa in poverty. ARTIST BIO O Yemi has exhibited worldwide and received awards and recognitions. His works, Ijo Iyawo (Bridal Dance) was awarded the Best of the Show Award and “Violinist” was awarded the People Choice Award in the 2025 Music International Art Exhibition Competition by NOMA Gallery, Florida, USA. O Yemi Tubi was awarded 2nd Place Prize in the 2025 “Save Our Planet” Exhibition by Red Bluff Gallery, Corning, California, USA. He was awarded the “Cultural Best Practice Award” with his painting “Message In A Bottle in the 2024 International FL3TCH3R EXHIBITION in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. UK No Name Collective Art Magazine awarded him the Finalist Certificate for the 2024 Annual Challenge. He was selected as one of the 50 artists winners of the Premier Artist Prize 2024. He was a winner of the Award of Distinction in the Southern Tier Artists 2024 Noteworthy: Music in Art Exhibition. He won the Fletcher H Dyer Award at the 11th Anniversary FL3TCH3R 2023 Exhibition. He was awarded 2nd place in the 2023 Brouhahaart ‘Climate Change’ “Right Here, Right Now” exhibition.” O. Yemi won the First-Place award with his painting ”The Chickens' Fight” in the WAR or PEACE 2022 International Competition by Art Impact International. He won the best show at the 2022 Urbanization and Health International Art Exhibition and Competition. Art Show International Gallery awarded him the Talent Prize Award in PORTRAIT 2022 International Juried Art Competition for his work “PORTRAIT of an Artist. His works were awarded 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th places in political commentaries in American Art Awards from 2014 to 2022. He also received the First Round Award with cash in the Art Olympia 2015 International Open exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. His work, GELE, was awarded the Best Show Award in the CQ64 2021 Winter issue of Creative Magazine. His work “My Mother” won 1st Place (Best in Show) in the International Art Competition by Tall Sequoia Gallery, Toronto, Canada in 2020. His works are part of the top 25 in the Fine Art category of Creative Quarterly Magazine and were awarded the 100 Best Annual 2019 Fine Arts Award Certificate. His works have been published in some Newspapers, Magazines, and art books. His works were published in 2019 ART Habens Art Review, Biennial Edition, published in Issue Vol. 49; 2019 MURZE Arts Magazine, Issue 4, January/February Issue 2019 and 2019 Quotes: Inspirational Quotations / Creative Responses’ book. O Yemi Tubi's interview and works were featured in Issue 2 of Sfumato Art Magazine! His interview and works were also published in the Collect Art Special Edition of the magazine 'Art & Activism' in March 2025. His works were published in 2020, The March MASS: MATRIARCHY Monthly online Magazine and His works were published in 2018 ARTtour International Magazine ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art. Fine Art America published O. Yemi’s winning works in 2017 at www.Huffingtonpost.com. “World’s Best political Painters” and “World’s Best celebrity Portrait Artists. His interview and some of his works were published on Africa.com. 61cm 91cm 1