Now on display: We Wear Our Stories

Displayed in centre court for the month of February, this exhibition is a celebration of African identity - past, present, and evolving. Through bold colour, pattern, and portraiture, each work tells a story of memory, culture, and everyday life.

About the Artist:

Daramfon Morgan is a Canadian Nigerian visual artist and the founder of DCM Art Creations. His work blends contemporary portraiture with African visual language, using bold colour, intricate pattern, and symbolic detail to explore themes of identity, diaspora, and everyday life.

Working primarily in digital formats, Morgan creates visually striking yet intimate pieces that centre Black presence as joyful, complex, and deeply human. His portraits function as sites of storytelling, where cultural memory, personal experience, and present-day realities intersect.

 Exhibition Concept Statement

We Wear Our Stories is a portrait series that explores African identity as something lived, layered, and carried forward through everyday life. Across nine pieces of work, faces and bodies become canvases of memory. Pattern functions as language. Colour acts as emotion. Gesture becomes history.

These figures are not frozen in the past. They exist in the present. They love, dance, play music, reflect, perform, parent, and dream. Some appear whole and open. Others are split, masked, or doubled, revealing the tension between private self and public face, tradition and transformation, inheritance and self-definition.

Created for highly visible public spaces, this series invites viewers to pause and look closer. What appears decorative at first reveals itself as symbolic. The markings echo ancestral knowledge, cultural rhythm, and lived experience. Together, the works assert that African heritage is not only something remembered; it is something worn, shaped, and continually reimagined.

For African Heritage Month, We Wear Our Stories offers both celebration and education. It affirms Black presence as joyful, complex, contemporary, and deeply rooted. Heritage here is not static. It moves with us.