Joined up with local women artists to show at Living Water Satisfies a social enterprise that invests its profits to empower women to overcome domestic violence. http://www.livingwatersatisfies.org.uk/
About Me
- Gloria Ojulari Sule Artist
- I am a practising Visual Artist/Maker based in South London. My work includes drawing, painting, mixed media, moving image and installation. My practice derives from my experience as a black British woman of dual heritage, a mother and aspects of my background thus far. I assemble, work and rework the multiple strands of this personal material to create work that comments on of issues of identity and culture within our racially complex sociality today.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Market Stall
Since the end of the ‘Nano Women’ showcasing at the Fashion and Textile Museum, I have got into making specifically for the West Norwood Market stall turning my one bedroom flat into a chaotic 24 hour activated recycling art hub. All the work relocated from my Spike Island studio in Bristol, now lives with me in every room as large canvases portfolios and materials bulge from inappropriate spaces, life and artist existence become one.
I am combining textiles ‘my unworn African costumes’ collected over the years with recycled canvases and artworks to make new saleable artefacts. Also taking more and more daily recyclables to add to ideas of items I can reinvent to include on the stall. The Baby Books and Bibs being my main new products are drawing more and more attention but the other developments such as food cans as pen pots, and along with small artworks and everything else. These can all be seen on my blog http://afrobabybooks@blogspot.com
The reworking of existing artworks is leading to the emergence of some very spontaneous works and it is not unusual for me to be moving from the stitching of baby books to the painting and finding the ideas merge, it’s the stories that are the result and this is an exciting direction for me.
I am combining textiles ‘my unworn African costumes’ collected over the years with recycled canvases and artworks to make new saleable artefacts. Also taking more and more daily recyclables to add to ideas of items I can reinvent to include on the stall. The Baby Books and Bibs being my main new products are drawing more and more attention but the other developments such as food cans as pen pots, and along with small artworks and everything else. These can all be seen on my blog http://afrobabybooks@blogspot.com
The reworking of existing artworks is leading to the emergence of some very spontaneous works and it is not unusual for me to be moving from the stitching of baby books to the painting and finding the ideas merge, it’s the stories that are the result and this is an exciting direction for me.
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