Tomilola Olumide is a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist and writer based in the United Kingdom.
Her work documents autobiographical assemblages and personal history narratives which chronicle her identity, memories, emotional landscapes, experimentation of materials and exploration of subjects inspired by her upbringing in Lagos, Nigeria and her navigation of life in adulthood.
Olumide works interdisciplinarily and across mediums like sculpture, new media, painting, performance, textile and literature, and uses materials as found objects to personal memorabilia, textile fabrics, plaster, paint and her physical body as objects, expressions of medium and explorations of tactile memory, intimacy, sensuality and aesthetics between herself and subjects.
Tomilola studied BA Fine Art at the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art and graduated with a First Class Honours degree. She is currently studying MA Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, where she was awarded the 2024 RCA Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. Olumide is also a 2024 recipient of the Soho Global Fellowship by Soho House and Creative Futures Collective.
Her recent exhibitions and projects include: Radiant at Copeland Gallery (2024), Chronicles of Respite in Communion (2024) at The New Art Gallery, Walsall; RCA Africa Residency, Reading and Writer’s Talk: Revisiting Collections with an African Lens at the Royal College of Art, Kensington (2024), The Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Unreal Engine 5 at Birmingham Open Media (BOM) (2024), Studio Maker Programme at STEAMhouse, Birmingham (2024), Wá wò ó| Spot VR Residency at Stryx Gallery (2023), Pressure x Walk| (Algo|Afro) Futures at Vivid Projects (2023) and Moving to Words at Eastside projects (2023).
