Emerging Artist Prize 2021

Olu currently lives, works and studies in London. He is currently finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts. Much of his work uses wood as he takes trees as repositories of memory within the places and communities in which they grew up. We interviewed him to to hear more about his journey as a creative and the ideas that lie behind his work.

The Emerging Artist Prize was produced in collaboration with international art consultant, Katie Kennedy Perez.