A Shared Canvas For African Creativity
A Shared Canvas For
African Creativity
A Shared Canvas For
African Creativity
Canvas House is an African cultural membership platform built for creative
entrepreneurs. It operates through a connected system of physical spaces and a digital network, designed to support how members live, work, connect and create across African cities.
It combines physical spaces and a digital platform to give members access to people, places and opportunities across African cities.
Instead of starting from scratch in every city, members move with context, access and community.
Canvas House is an African cultural membership platform built for creative
entrepreneurs. It operates through a connected system of physical spaces and a digital network, designed to support how members live, work, connect and create across African cities.
It combines physical spaces and a digital platform to give members access to people, places and opportunities across African cities.
Instead of starting from scratch in every city, members move with context, access and community.
Canvas House is an African cultural membership platform built for creative
entrepreneurs. It operates through a connected system of physical spaces and a digital network, designed to support how members live, work, connect and create across African cities.
It combines physical spaces and a digital platform to give members access to people, places and opportunities across African cities.
Instead of starting from scratch in every city, members move with context, access and community.
Canvas House is an African cultural membership platform built for creative entrepreneurs. It operates through a connected system of physical spaces and a digital network, designed to support how members live, work, connect and create across African cities.
It combines physical spaces and a digital platform to give members access to people, places and opportunities across the continent.
Instead of starting from scratch in every city, members move with context, access and community.
Canvas House is an African cultural membership platform built for creative
entrepreneurs. It operates through a connected system of physical spaces and a digital network, designed to support how members live, work, connect and create across African cities.
It combines physical spaces and a digital platform to give members access to people, places and opportunities across African cities.
Instead of starting from scratch in every city, members move with context, access and community.
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Emma Emodi
If you've admired the shift towards quieter, more refined luxury interiors in Nigeria, you're seeing the influence of Emma Emodi. As the Founder and Creative Director of Studio Emodi, she has helped redefine contemporary African design through a practice that blends engineering precision with timeless aesthetics.
Educated at Imperial College London and Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan, she creates residential, commercial, and product designs that are as intelligent as they are beautiful. Her work has earned commissions from global organisations, been exhibited publicly, and continues to shape a new generation of design thinking rooted in African craftsmanship, material innovation, and intentional living.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Canvas House, she is extending that vision beyond spaces, building one of Africa's emerging communities for cultural entrepreneurs and the creative leaders shaping what's next.
Emma Emodi
If you've admired the shift towards quieter, more refined luxury interiors in Nigeria, you're seeing the influence of Emma Emodi. As the Founder and Creative Director of Studio Emodi, she has helped redefine contemporary African design through a practice that blends engineering precision with timeless aesthetics.
Educated at Imperial College London and Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan, she creates residential, commercial, and product designs that are as intelligent as they are beautiful. Her work has earned commissions from global organisations, been exhibited publicly, and continues to shape a new generation of design thinking rooted in African craftsmanship, material innovation, and intentional living.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Canvas House, she is extending that vision beyond spaces, building one of Africa's emerging communities for cultural entrepreneurs and the creative leaders shaping what's next.
Emma Emodi
If you've admired the shift towards quieter, more refined luxury interiors in Nigeria, you're seeing the influence of Emma Emodi. As the Founder and Creative Director of Studio Emodi, she has helped redefine contemporary African design through a practice that blends engineering precision with timeless aesthetics.
Educated at Imperial College London and Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan, she creates residential, commercial, and product designs that are as intelligent as they are beautiful. Her work has earned commissions from global organisations, been exhibited publicly, and continues to shape a new generation of design thinking rooted in African craftsmanship, material innovation, and intentional living.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Canvas House, she is extending that vision beyond spaces, building one of Africa's emerging communities for cultural entrepreneurs and the creative leaders shaping what's next.
Emma Emodi
If you've admired the shift towards quieter, more refined luxury interiors in Nigeria, you're seeing the influence of Emma Emodi. As the Founder and Creative Director of Studio Emodi, she has helped redefine contemporary African design through a practice that blends engineering precision with timeless aesthetics.
Educated at Imperial College London and Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan, she creates residential, commercial, and product designs that are as intelligent as they are beautiful. Her work has earned commissions from global organisations, been exhibited publicly, and continues to shape a new generation of design thinking rooted in African craftsmanship, material innovation, and intentional living.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Canvas House, she is extending that vision beyond spaces, building one of Africa's emerging communities for cultural entrepreneurs and the creative leaders shaping what's next.
Sosa Omorogbe
If you want to understand where the future of African art is being built, look to Sosa Omorogbe. As the Founder and CEO of The 1897, she is creating the infrastructure that allows African artists, collectors, and institutions to compete on a global stage.
Blending the commercial discipline of investment banking with a career at the forefront of the international art world, she has advised collections, curated internationally acclaimed exhibitions, and championed new markets for African art.
Her work has been recognised with an Artforum Critics' Pick, featured by Vogue UK and The Art Newspaper, covered by more than 35 international publications, and showcased at 1-54 London, Abu Dhabi Art, and Investec Cape Town Art Fair. In 2026, she was named to Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30, recognising her as one of the continent's leading voices shaping the future of art, culture, and creative enterprise.
Sosa Omorogbe
If you want to understand where the future of African art is being built, look to Sosa Omorogbe. As the Founder and CEO of The 1897, she is creating the infrastructure that allows African artists, collectors, and institutions to compete on a global stage.
Blending the commercial discipline of investment banking with a career at the forefront of the international art world, she has advised collections, curated internationally acclaimed exhibitions, and championed new markets for African art.
Her work has been recognised with an Artforum Critics' Pick, featured by Vogue UK and The Art Newspaper, covered by more than 35 international publications, and showcased at 1-54 London, Abu Dhabi Art, and Investec Cape Town Art Fair. In 2026, she was named to Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30, recognising her as one of the continent's leading voices shaping the future of art, culture, and creative enterprise.
Sosa Omorogbe
If you want to understand where the future of African art is being built, look to Sosa Omorogbe. As the Founder and CEO of The 1897, she is creating the infrastructure that allows African artists, collectors, and institutions to compete on a global stage.
Blending the commercial discipline of investment banking with a career at the forefront of the international art world, she has advised collections, curated internationally acclaimed exhibitions, and championed new markets for African art.
Her work has been recognised with an Artforum Critics' Pick, featured by Vogue UK and The Art Newspaper, covered by more than 35 international publications, and showcased at 1-54 London, Abu Dhabi Art, and Investec Cape Town Art Fair. In 2026, she was named to Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30, recognising her as one of the continent's leading voices shaping the future of art, culture, and creative enterprise.
Sosa Omorogbe
If you want to understand where the future of African art is being built, look to Sosa Omorogbe. As the Founder and CEO of The 1897, she is creating the infrastructure that allows African artists, collectors, and institutions to compete on a global stage.
Blending the commercial discipline of investment banking with a career at the forefront of the international art world, she has advised collections, curated internationally acclaimed exhibitions, and championed new markets for African art.
Her work has been recognised with an Artforum Critics' Pick, featured by Vogue UK and The Art Newspaper, covered by more than 35 international publications, and showcased at 1-54 London, Abu Dhabi Art, and Investec Cape Town Art Fair. In 2026, she was named to Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30, recognising her as one of the continent's leading voices shaping the future of art, culture, and creative enterprise.