After spending her early years in London, Ndidi Dike relocated to Nigeria. There she completed her degree in Fine Arts at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka in 1984, studying under some of the country’s leading modern artists including Uche Okeke (1933-2016) and Obiora Udechukwu (born in 1946). Although she studied painting, it was her transgressive work as a self-taught sculptor – a domain then conventionally reserved for male artists – that won her early acclaim. Much of N. Dike’s early work took the form of intricate wood relief assemblages characterized by curvilinear lines and symbols carved with industrial power tools and embellished with burning techniques. In collection of Ego Boyo.