Welcome to the website of Artist Gloria F. Y. Ojulari Sule
Visual Artist from London UK now living in Colombia
Celebrating Esther. Celebrating Motherhood. Miamor Mihija.
Acrylic on canvas 2022
Ife Reflection, 70x70cm, acrylic on canvas 2021
New Life. I moved to Buenaventura in 2018 for the birth of my grandson Ife he was born in April that year. It was an easy decision to pack up my life in UK and head here after so many fantastic annual visits to spend time with my daughter in the country. I now live in Cali but enjoy and am inspired by both cities and the south west Pacific region in which they are located.
I often reflect and muse on the different projects I have been engaged in over the years and the many wonderful people I met during my artistic endeavors. ´Big up Bristol´ for so many creative times.
New works in Colombia. I have set myself several projects that are ostensibly linked to the coastal regions of Cauca and Valley de Cauca, areas populated by Afro Colombians. The many people here of African descent are of course here due to the transatlantic slave trade and there are communities in the rivers that continue to live very much as they would have before they were transported, that is in close association with the land, the issue of land rights remaining paramount in their struggle. The people and subjects of my work draw on cultural heritage and identity in the diaspora.
My practice is in Artworks in mixed media, painting, drawing, use of recycled objects and textiles. I create exhibitions, installations and moving image projects.
Previously I produced Giclee Prints, Greetings cards, Textile hangings, Baby Books & Bibs.
I engaged in Commissions, Presentations, Community Arts, Visual Arts Education.
Most recent in UK 15 artworks for TACT the Adolescents Children's Trust a Fostering and Adoption organization for their new offices and family rooms. Bristol 2017
30 giclee prints purchased by North Bristol NHS Trust for display in wards and departments 2014. Selected from works dating 1995-2014
African and African-Caribbean design diaspora HLM installation and moving image 2017
Canvas and Cream, London, Hopes and Dreams textile exhibition 2012
Brent Museum Fabric of a Nation, Egungun costume 2010
Rich Mix, London Cassava exhibition 2010
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
I often reflect and muse on the different projects I have been engaged in over the years and the many wonderful people I met during my artistic endeavors. ´Big up Bristol´ for so many creative times.
New works in Colombia. I have set myself several projects that are ostensibly linked to the coastal regions of Cauca and Valley de Cauca, areas populated by Afro Colombians. The many people here of African descent are of course here due to the transatlantic slave trade and there are communities in the rivers that continue to live very much as they would have before they were transported, that is in close association with the land, the issue of land rights remaining paramount in their struggle. The people and subjects of my work draw on cultural heritage and identity in the diaspora.
My practice is in Artworks in mixed media, painting, drawing, use of recycled objects and textiles. I create exhibitions, installations and moving image projects.
Previously I produced Giclee Prints, Greetings cards, Textile hangings, Baby Books & Bibs.
I engaged in Commissions, Presentations, Community Arts, Visual Arts Education.
Most recent in UK 15 artworks for TACT the Adolescents Children's Trust a Fostering and Adoption organization for their new offices and family rooms. Bristol 2017
30 giclee prints purchased by North Bristol NHS Trust for display in wards and departments 2014. Selected from works dating 1995-2014
African and African-Caribbean design diaspora HLM installation and moving image 2017
Canvas and Cream, London, Hopes and Dreams textile exhibition 2012
Brent Museum Fabric of a Nation, Egungun costume 2010
Rich Mix, London Cassava exhibition 2010
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
From previous statement. 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 African societies in Britain, and in the 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 Africa and the Diaspora.
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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.
