Studio Styles is Rose Nneoma Abba’s art and research practice for social healing,
which she takes as the cultivation of present relationships with ourselves, our communities, our histories, and the environment.
2026: The Environment, Our Communities
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Independent Study: Environmental Affect
The environmental crisis, as an ecological crisis, is also a crisis of relation. How people understand and feel about their environment shapes how they act towards it.
I’m paying attention to how Nigerians think and feel about being ‘bush’.
What do capitalism, colonialism and the patriarchy have to do with the contemporary Nigerian imaginary of ‘bushness’? What does this imaginary afford or deprive us of?
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Independent Study: Natural Medicine
Dealing with a chronic illness for decades has kept me tethered to naturopathy as my body guides me towards understanding its self-healing mechanism.
Beyond my pain, I have found wisdom, adventure, and boundless care in the net that is the natural world, of which we humans are part and parcel.
2025: Our Selves, Our Communities
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Our Bodies, Nigeria's Ghosts (film)
With this film, I’m saying: hey, we’re not doomed to what we inherited; we too have a say. And if we listen to our bodies’ (human, collective, ecological) dance, we will hear what’s happening and where to go.
Funded by the Goethe-Institut Nigeria's post-Memory, post-Archive fellowship (2024-2025).
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Restful (anthology)
Restful is a cross-generational collection of reflections by Nigerians reflecting on how relationships and art (through all the senses) sustain us in turbulent times.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Nigeria.
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The Culture Pay Survey
A survey on the financial and wider economic landscape of Nigeria’s culture industry.
Made with a volunteer collective.
2024: Our Histories, Our Communities
Sweet Medicine (podcast)
podcast and website exploring the history and current state of Humanities education and practice in Nigeria, as a means towards social healing
Supported by the Open Society Foundations.
2023: Our Selves
Does Your God Sleep?
This is the prototype series for building a repository of Everyday Nigerian Thought. The subject matter was young Nigerians’ ideas about fear and God.
Research through hospitality + facilitated a 2-day gathering.
2022: Our Communities, Our Selves
You Matter to Me (film)
“A wholehearted conversation between an artist and her parents exploring their personal philosophies on joy and where to find it. All be it, joys complicated by the tensions and grief that come with life in Nigeria.”
Funded by Creating Joy: Art, Refusal and the Worlding of Black Lives (Antipode Foundation grantee project)