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| ABOUT THE ARTIST > BIOGRAPHY | |||
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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