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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.
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. |