Closing Season 18 a wonderful, super positive chat with artist Àjàó Babátúndé Lawal in 2024. Always curious about what's is like to be inside an artist's studio? Watch full interview here.

Àjàó is a Nigerian-born Irish artist whose work is elementally about his African heritage and the influence of his adoptive home country, Ireland.

After exploring several career paths, including business, social care, and nursing, Ajao ultimately pursued his passion for art education with the encouragement of newly made friends and loved ones.

Àjàó’s body of work reflects a diverse range of themes. His painting explores various aspects of life as the author has experienced them and as they still exist in the modern world. These themes encompass ordinary daily events, history, personal experiences, and imagination.

Àjàó’s art serves as a platform for celebrating the vibrant African culture and the inherent beauty it encompasses. It is an artistic expression and a narrative of his African heritage, life, and traditions.

Àjàó utilises his art to convey hope and inspiration to families worldwide. Ajao’s art is deeply rooted in the life experiences of actual black individuals. Themes of love, hope, nature, culture, rituals, traditions, courage, humility, and serenity characterise his work.

Àjàó’s artistic portfolio encompasses a diverse range of subjects, such as figurative art, portraiture, nature, abstract art, and more. Ajao’s unquenchable passion is to preserve and promote African culture, while also advocating for equal representation for aspiring artists in our diverse and multicultural society.

Àjàó’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions over the past few years such as at Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in March 2024 as part of the 2023 RDS Visual Art Awards.

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