A painter who was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Art Prize 2018 is putting on her first solo exhibition.
Sola Olulode, 22, will open Moving In The Bluish Light at the Von Goetz gallery in her home area of Brixton tomorrow.
Olulode’s work She’s Like My Sister was named one of the top 10 submissions to the Standard’s Art Prize and was displayed at the National Gallery. The artist, above with some of the works for the new exhibition, all on blue canvas, said the series is about London’s black and LGBTQ communities, and nightlife in the capital. The pieces, which will be shown until December 17, take their name from a line in the poem Fantasy by Harlem Renaissance poet Gwendolyn Bennett.
Olulode, who is of Nigerian heritage, did her art foundation at Camberwell before moving to Brighton for her BA, which she completed this summer. She said having her first solo exhibition was “huge”, adding it was “really special” for it to be in Brixton.
