Foluso Oguntoye is an artist and Fine art student about finishing a BA (Hons) Fine art course at the Manchester school of art- Manchester metropolitan university.Born and lived in Lagos, Nigeria till 2010, his art is about personal identity, the black African aesthetic and the African diaspora. He is inspired by the human body especially the black(female) body, African mythology, tradition and aesthetic and also religion/spirituality. Working mainly in oil paints, he longs to portray and go back to what once was or what could have been and attempts to re-imagine (the black) identity.
EXHIBITING:
‘The Creature’
‘The Uncertain/The Unknown’