Nola Ayoola (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary Nigerian artist whose works are a visual diary that expresses a language and translation of her being and culture.

Through carved sculptures, portraiture, woven, and cut out abstract compositions – her work encapsulates the philosophy that ‘you cannot understand what you cannot pull apart’. Furthermore, her artistic practice is an ongoing observation of her heritage and its profound impact on her identity. She does so by storytelling through varying lenses in which she sees and imagines.

Ayoola's artworks are both theoretically and physically layered as a core voice, its a study of dismantling, intertwining, and overlapping of subjects, stories, and mediums. Nola explores and visually conceptualizes experience, moving parts, and processes, highlighting the varying complexities of identity. Heavily triggered by her hyper-sensory processing of sensitivity and synesthesia of naturally connecting sounds, colors and emotions to each other, it allows her to capture the essence of each creation.

Ayoola's visual languages pay tribute to traditional African craftsmanship practices, - hand dyed indigo to carved block printing and weaving. The process of hand printing backgrounds (an ode to Yoruba carving techniques and traditional Adire textiles) holds equal importance to the subjects.