Gloria F. Y. Ojulari Sule Visual artist/maker London UK
Artworks/mixed media, painting, drawing, recycled objects Exhibitions/installations moving image Giclee Prints/Greetings cards Textile/Baby Books & Bibs Commissions, Presentations, Community Arts, Visual Arts Education
Recently created 15 artworks for TACT The Adolescents Children's Trust a Fostering and Adoption organisation for their new offices and family rooms.
30 giclee prints purchased by North Bristol NHS Trust for display in wards and departments 2014. Selected works dating 1995-2014
Spike Island Artist’s studios Bristol 2004-10.
Arnolfini Craftivisim 2009-2010
Picture This, Small Wonders, new moving image projects 2006-7
R & D Dak’Art Biennale in 2006
Calling Digital arts Residency 2005
Recently created 15 artworks for TACT The Adolescents Children's Trust a Fostering and Adoption organisation for their new offices and family rooms.
30 giclee prints purchased by North Bristol NHS Trust for display in wards and departments 2014. Selected works dating 1995-2014
Spike Island Artist’s studios Bristol 2004-10.
Arnolfini Craftivisim 2009-2010
Picture This, Small Wonders, new moving image projects 2006-7
R & D Dak’Art Biennale in 2006
Calling Digital arts Residency 2005
Welcome to my site. A portfolio archive of artworks produced over several years.
I use video, mixed media, painting, drawing and installation in my practice to explore afro-centric concepts and notions of Black Britishness.
As a black woman of dual heritage my work references culture and identity in my pursuit to identify with my own Yoruba heritage and to comment on contemporary West African society in Britain, on the African continent and in the wider African Diaspora. I make use of different mediums/media to emphasis the context of the work often employing recycled objects and materials. The textiles I use are closely associated with contemporary and traditional West African costume, these costumes are still widely worn and hold strong cultural ties for societies living in the Diaspora.
As a black woman of dual heritage my work references culture and identity in my pursuit to identify with my own Yoruba heritage and to comment on contemporary West African society in Britain, on the African continent and in the wider African Diaspora. I make use of different mediums/media to emphasis the context of the work often employing recycled objects and materials. The textiles I use are closely associated with contemporary and traditional West African costume, these costumes are still widely worn and hold strong cultural ties for societies living in the Diaspora.
In this collage I pay homage to so many artists and creatives I admire and respect. The images come directly from postcards which provide a shared connection and porthole to worlds known and otherwise unknown. In saving and identifying with these images I have subconsciously made a collection of great personal relevance that in turn I have recreated into a personal archival work
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Many of my work focus on subjects of a personal nature connected to culture, heritage and identity. I especially explored personal connections early on in my practice at that time this being a cathartic and necessary direction. The discipline gave me the tools and the resources to pull the pieces together and open my mind to unknown realms.
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