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ABOUT THE ARTIST >
BIOGRAPHY |
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Gloria Ojulari Sule has been
Bristol based for ten years since graduating from the Norwich school of Art
and Design in 1996.
Gloria makes figurative narrative artworks using painting, drawing and
mixed media. Her work draws on personal experience as a black woman of
mixed-race and her research into the Yoruba cultural art traditions of
her heritage. The artist works in many ways to combines materials with
paint, mixed media and multi media formats. Gloria’s work seeks to
present cultural explorations into black subjectivity through images
that forefront Afro-centrism, gender conceptions and notions of Black
British identity.
Gloria has worked extensively with schools, community groups and
organizations within the region and nationally, developing and
facilitating a range of arts initiatives, the artist has also completed
several large scale public art commissions and residencies, recently
participating in the ‘Calling’ Watershed and Arts Council South West
digital arts residency.
She is currently working on “Dak’Art to Bristol AffirmARTive - Research
and Development” a project which includes a trip to the 7th Dakar
Biennale supported by the Arts Council South West. Whilst in Dakar
Gloria will meet and interview artists and organisers, review
exhibitions and take in the general cultural vibe of this significant
event in the profiling of Contemporary African Arts.
Gloria works from her studio at Spike Island where she participates in
open studios, she has also exhibited widely and has works in private
collections nationally and internationally. |
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