Monoprint on paper 29.7 x 42 cm (11.7 x 16.5 in.)
£650About Sola Olulode
The Brixton-based British-Nigerian artist Sola Olulode’s dreamy queer visions explore embodiments of British Black Womxn and Non-Binary Folx. Working with various mediums of natural dyeing, batik, wax, ink, pastel, oil bar, and impasto she develops textural canvases that explore the fluidities of identities. Drawing inspiration from lived experience, friends, and cultural reference points to centre Black Queer Womxn, Olulode emphasizes the integral need of representation and celebration of queer intimacies.
Her utopian scenes celebrate relationships that transcend crude notions of queer sexuality, her figures exemplify the warm embrace of queer love, a temporal space to bathe in memories of intimacies abundant with scenes of profoundly deep tender connections. Envisaging a world reflective of the celebration of her own identities, Olulode brings to life representation and visibility of Black Queer lived experiences.
Sola Olulode was born in 1996 and works and lives in London.
About Exist Loudly
Tanya Compass founded Exist Loudly in the summer of 2020 to create spaces of joy and community for Black LGBTQ+ youth in the UK.
“Exist Loudly is a love letter to my younger self,” says Compass. “It’s a commitment to Black LGBTQ+ young people that there will be spaces for them to just exist, without minimizing their identity to feel safe, loved or cared for.”
Black queer joy is revolutionary and Black queer community is a life line. This is why joy and community are at the heart of everything Exist Loudly does.
