ARTIST BIO
Born in Scotland of British / Nigerian
heritage, currently based in the West Midlands, I draw on a lifetime of moving - across landscapes, communities, and emotional terrains. Artworks unfold across multiple viewpoints, inviting navigation, reorientation, and reflection. Rather than offering resolution, they propose rhythm, resonance, and
orientation - openings for connection and embodied contemplation.
A prolific maker, establishing territories across several lines of enquiry concurrently, my sensuous nomadic practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, rooted in transformation of materials, bodies, and perception, creating works that are extensions of the rhythms of my body: evolving sites of experimentation and energetic memory. I frequently incorporate found /gifted / re-used and elemental materials - wire, plaster, pigment, textiles, glass, and swarf.
I also write and perform poetry, photograph and document.
In 2012 to recuperate from health issues I began building up to activities of long steady walking / slow running, being outdoors for many hours, freeing my mind, body and spirit and this durational activity continues to underpin my art practice. Towards the end of 2012, I focused on my two passions - art and healing. Establishing a Holistic Therapies business and enrolling in formal arts education. I graduated in 2016 with a master’s degree in Fine Art from Birmingham City University.
In 2019 I won the Chameleon Arts Prize at Surface Gallery, Nottingham and had my first solo exhibition in 2020, filling both floors of the gallery with paintings, installations, poetry and a film. (each floor approx. 16x7m / 200 square metres+ exhibition space). I exhibit regularly across the UK and my art can be found in private and corporate collections in the UK and internationally.
I am a Trustee, Ambassador and Artist Advisor for the national charity – Outside In.
AWARDS
2025 a-n The Artists Information Company / Freelands Foundation Bursary personal development
2019 The Chameleon Arts Prize Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2018 UK Artists Annual Exhibition 1st, Prize
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2020 I RELEASE MY COLOURS (Part 2) Surface Gallery (both floors), Nottingham
Small Group (up to 8 artists)
2024 THE GRANGE FESTIVAL The Grange Festival/Outside In partnership
exhibition (6 artists), The Grange, Hampshire
2022 HOWDEN GROUP Howden Group/Outside In partnership (4 artists), One Creechurch Place, London; (painting purchased Howden Family Collection)
2022 ENCOUNTERS (3 artists) Floor One Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby
2021 MULTIPLICITY OF US (7Afro-descendant artists) Arcadia, Coventry
Large Group (9+ artists)
2025 WINTER GROUP SHOW, Linden Hall Studio, Deal / ING DISCERNING EYE Mall Galleries, London / UNDOINGS: Exploring Contemporary Making and Unmaking, Sussex Contemporary
at BN9, East Sussex / PAINTING Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2024 COLOUR Open Gallery, Halifax / LEAMINGTON OPEN Leamington Spa Art Gallery, Leamington Spa / C.A.S.E. The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2023 RUGBY OPEN EXHIBITION Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby; (also 2017 to 2022, 2015) / ING DISCERNING EYE Mall Galleries, London
2022 PROGRESSION D Contemporary, London
2021 OPEN 21: Queen Street Gallery, Neath, Wales
2019 CHAMELEON: CONTEMPORARY COLOUR Surface Gallery, Nottingham; Chameleon Art Prize winner / IATC G&C Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; (3 paintings purchased for a corporate collection) / LIGHT HOUSE OPEN EXHIBITION Light House Gallery & Media Centre, Wolverhampton / FERENS OPEN EXHIBITION Ferens Gallery, Hull (also 2017)
2018 our eARTh Kunsthuis Gallery, N. Yorks
PERFORMANCE / PROJECTS / PUBLICATIONS
2025 RUGBY LITERARY FESTIVAL reading & film, Alexandra Arts Centre, Rugby
2024 RUGBY LITERARY FESTIVAL performance, Alexandra Arts Centre, Rugby / APE performance, RMBL, Birmingham
2023 GRASRUTSZINE #3: THE YELLOW ONE (publication)
2021 BLACK ARTISTS’ PROJECT (Outside In) 8 West Midlands based global majority artists taking part in 4 x “Zoom Cafes”)
2019 WHEN WOMEN SPEAK: THE TOUR performance, The Wightman Theatre, Shrewsbury