Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Nigerian sculptor
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Place of Birth: Nigeria
About Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy
- Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (2 May 1952 - 17 December 2012) was a visual artist who was born in Awka (Oka), Anambra state, Nigeria, but spent much of her young life in Ikom on the Cameroon border, before moving back to the family home at Umubele in Awka.
- She lived in Britain since 1975.
- Her paintings, prints and sculptures are predominantly figurative, in the genres of portraiture, still-life, landscape and narrative subjects.
- She won international attention in 2002 for being only one of two Nigerian artists (the other being Ben Enwonwu) to have been allowed to paint official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. Chukwuogo-Roy was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
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