ARTIST

Hi, I'm Tomilola Olumide

Nigeria/ UK

Multidiscipoinary Artist

Creative Statement

Tomilola moves between play, remembrance and engagement with the intuitive and mundane, where experimentation with materials and objects becomes essential to expressing thoughts, memories, and experiences both lived and becoming. She’s drawn to the intimate connections materials hold, the solace of kinship they offer with both the familiar and the ...

Biography

Tomilola Olumide is a Nigerian Artist, Writer and Researcher whose practice documents memory and identity through autobiographical work informed by present experiences and her formative years in Lagos, Nigeria. ​Olumide received a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) from the Royal College of Art (RCA), London and a Bachelor's in Fin...

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Education

The Royal College of Art, London, UK
The University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, Winchester​, UK

Exhibitions / Auctions

Forms & Fable, Filet, London
Poetics of Becoming, Curated by Julia Mahrer Viñas, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, UK
Radiant, Curated by Abigail Fakoya, Copeland Gallery, London, UK

Recognitions/Residency

Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship by the Royal College of Art (Award)
Soho Global Fellowship by Soho House and Creative Futures Collective (Award)
Wá wò ó, Spot VR Residency, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, UK (Residency)
Moving to Words, Extraordinary People Residency, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (Residency)

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