Nola Ayoola
Nola Ayoola (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works are her visual journal.
Through sculptures, portraiture, woven and cut out abstract compositions they encapsulate the philosophy that ‘you cannot understand what you cannot pull apart’. Her works are an observation of her heritage and its profound impact on her identity by storytelling through varying lenses in which she sees and imagines, while connecting to and interpreting objects.
Nola’s work is both theoretically and physically layered as a core voice, it's a study of dismantling and assembling, while telling stories of interconnection and the synchronisation between the past, present and what is to come. She describes her work as reticulations of the state of dreams and experiences.
Highlighting the varying complexities of identity, she is heavily triggered by hyper- sensory processing of sensitivity and synesthesia - naturally connecting sounds, colours and emotions to each other, it allows her to capture essence.
Nola’s visual languages pay homage to traditional African craftsmanship practices, - hand dyed indigo to carved block printing and weaving. The process of hand printing layers (an ode to Yoruba carving techniques and traditional Adire textiles) holds equal importance to the subjects.
Whilst constructing/ deconstructing; her works celebrate representation and shared narratives. She is nurturing recurring themes of her interpretations of womanhood, social constructs of gender, human interaction with communities and environments, Yoruba tradition, spirituality, individualism, auras and the seen/ unseen.
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