Diseye Tantua Is best known for his iconic style of ‘Afro Pop Art’, combining graghic symbols, bold colours and expressive text. His drawing are based on traditional proverbs that are made popular by headboards and bumper stickers on buses, taxis, tricycles and street signs. Tantua focusses on social groups in urban spaces, often depicting forms of transit and movement.
These scenes are overlaid with popular local depicting forms of transit and movement. these scenes are overlaid with popular local expressions that speak to the energy and dynamism of the city’s inhabitants. Diseye is the Vice President (south/ east) of the Society of Nigeria Artist (SNA) and an active member of The Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria (GFA). He has exhibited extensively home and abroad.