Tomilola Olumide
Metal, Ceramics, Textiles, Glass
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United Kingdom
About
Tomilola Olumide is a Nigerian Artist and Writer whose work documents subjects such as memory and identity, primarily informed by her formative years in Lagos, Nigeria.
With a foundational background in painting, an adoption of sculptural installation, performance, textile and literature to her more recent appreciation of glass and metalwork mediums as ‘Kiln-cast vitreous enamel work and silversmithing with copper,’ Tomilola adopts a constant expansion of her interdisciplinary practice, thus allowing an unapologetic variety of craft and expression of personal history contexts.
Working across a range of natural and synthetic materials as textile fabrics, organic fibres, copper metal, clay, glass, plaster and her own physical body, Olumide considers her materials to have ‘personal intimacy’ through her activation of their tactile memory, material curiosity and navigation of experimental and production processes.
Tomilola is currently studying an MA in Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, where she was awarded the 2024/25 RCA Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, championed by RCA BLK. Olumide received her BA in Fine Art from the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, and is also a recipient of the Soho Global Fellowship by Soho House and Creative Futures Collective.
Her recent exhibitions and projects include Ìnù mí dùn at the RCA2025: School of Arts & Humanities Degree Show at Royal College of Art, RCA Battersea, London, UK, I’m in Love with the Metaphysical by Something Different at Threerooms, Panrucket Gallery, London, UK, Fit Notes by Ache Magazine, Radiant at Copeland Gallery, Chronicles of Respite, Communion at The New Art Gallery Walsall & Multistory, Revisiting Collections with an African Lens, Library Residency by RCA Africa Society & Royal College of Art Library Kensington, Wá wò ó, Spot VR Residency at Stryx Gallery, Pressure x Walk at (Algo|Afro) Futures at Vivid Projects and Moving to Words.
Tomilola is based in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
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