Abike Ogunlokun

Abike is an artist exploring identity and our relationships to ourselves through portraiture. Abike’s interests include exploring intersectionality of identities and culture as well as encouraging self-acceptance. She uses painting as a tool for self expression and aims to provide representation in the arts, creating an image that she rarely saw growing up.

Abike was born and raised in London by Nigerian parents and now lives in Wales and have been for the past 5 years. During her first few years here being away from friends and family who had known her entire life spun her perspective on her identity and cultural connections as that she learned to rebuild her understanding of the two; independent of others.