Earlier this month, we welcomed Kim M. Reynolds, a U.S. writer, educator, maker and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, for an eight-week at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Her multidisciplinary practice spans research, literature, culinary arts, and food history, with a focus on pan-Africanism, ritual, social justice, and arts movements across the African continent and its diaspora. She is also the founder of Home Spice, a culinary project tracing the history of capsicum in Black cuisines through writing and cooking.

Akir Hall, a London-based biodesigner, material researcher, and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, joins us for an eight-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. His interdisciplinary practice spans textiles, craft, research, design, and ecology, exploring the intersection of biotechnology, artisanal craft, and regenerative design. Working with bacteria and fungi, he grows biomaterials that are later shaped, dyed, and finished using traditional techniques to create lighting and homeware objects that bridge heritage craft and future-facing material innovation.

Earlier this month, we welcomed Yoma Emore, a multidisciplinary artist and a recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, for a residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Based in Lagos, her artistic practice spans textiles, embroidery, hand-felting, and printmaking. Rooted in personal and collective memory, her work draws on familial archives and transnational histories to treat material as a living site where past narratives resurface and transform.

In December 2025, G.A.S. Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, announced the call for the fourth edition of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award. This year, the award offered multiple fully funded residencies, including two slots dedicated to outstanding emerging African artists at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise under the African-Based and Diaspora Creatives category.

On April 16th, 2026 G.A.S. Lagos hosted a networking dinner supported by Frieze, a leading global contemporary art organization, recognized for its art fairs, publications and digital presence. Conceived to place Frieze in dialogue with Lagos, the gathering also introduced guests to the work of G.A.S. Foundation, creating space for exchange across local and international contexts.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on 29th April 2026 for Kitted for Culture, a presentation and hands-on zine-making workshop led by current resident Lukman Ipese. This event will spotlight Lukman’s practice, which centres graphic design as a shared process, exploring how identity, belief, and culture shape visual communication, particularly within his British-Nigerian heritage. The session begins with a presentation that examines football, fashion, identity, community, and the football shirt as a cultural artefact.

Earlier this week, we welcomed British-Nigerian artist Oluwasemilore Delano for a six-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Based between London and Lagos, Oluwasemilore works across painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, and architecture. Her multidisciplinary practice explores memory, lineage, and Black spatial consciousness, with a particular focus on the figure as both form and a site of perception. Through materials such as charcoal, concrete, oil, and textured black surfaces, she interrogates time, cultural inheritance, and the interplay between personal and communal histories.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on April 30th 2026 for Work Starts Now, a film screening and discussion led by current resident Kush Badhwar. The programme brings together three of Kush’s short films: We in a 1 room kitchen, Work Starts Now, and Blood Earth, which explore labour, resistance, and creative expression, from the power of song in political movements to the rhythms of everyday survival in contemporary urban India.

From March 25th to 27th 2026, G.A.S. Lagos hosted the inaugural edition of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop, a three-day initiative designed to support the professional and critical development of emerging local art writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners. Through a series of workshops, readings, and lectures led by then-resident Olutomi Kassim, in collaboration with invited industry professionals, participants engaged deeply with the tools and methodologies of critical art writing. Each day brought together six selected participants to examine writing as a form of activism, encouraging them to ask questions, challenge dominant narratives, and engage with the social and political contexts that shape contemporary art.