IJE Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

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A material-led sculptor and painter with an embodied, process-driven practice. My creations are extensions of the rhythms of my body: active evolving sites of experimentation, fabrications of sensuous energetic memories, “Mmiri Mmiri / I am fluid"

I am a multidisciplinary artist whose sensuous practice spans sculpture, painting, installation, writing, and embodied documentation. My materially rich works explore memory, movement, identity, and the shifting relationships between body, landscape, and beyond. Across media, I employ a durational, iterative approach shaped by breath, rhythm, and the body's negotiation of space.

Central to my practice is the concept of perdurance: the self as fluid, composed of temporal parts in constant change. Long-distance walking and slow running across varied terrains inform my attention to rhythm, repetition, and the shifting relationships between body, landscape, and beyond. Through processes of accumulation, layering, puncturing, construction, and transformation, paintings and sculptures emerge as repositories of lived experience, holding traces of movement, encounter, and memory.

Whether through sculptural form, material interventions, or layered painted surfaces, my work investigates the boundaries between interior and exterior worlds. Geological formations, tidal movements, embodied encounters, ancestral histories, and neurodivergent experience intersect within works that oscillate between the personal and collective, the physical and metaphysical. Chromatic shifts, gestural marks, and tactile surfaces become vessels for emotional resonance, sensuous experience, and states of becoming.

Born in Scotland to British/Nigerian heritage, my work reflects porous identity and embodied presence: "Mmiri Mmiri / I am fluid." I hold an MA in Fine Art from Birmingham City University (2016), am a recipient of the 2025 Freelands Foundation/a-n Bursary and winner of the Chameleon Arts Prize (2019). I serve as Trustee and Ambassador for the UK charity Outside In. My work is held in private and corporate collections in the UK and internationally.

Solo Exhibitions: 2020 I RELEASE MY COLOURS (Part 2), Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Selected Exhibitions: 2026 Elemental, Dot Gallery, Cumbria / Selector for UNSEEN (Until Now) Nov 2026: David Zwirner Gallery and Outside In partnership / Life 2026: Moments in Time, The Artists’ Pool at Scot-ART, Edinburgh / Strata, Visual Arts Scotland, The Assembly Hall, WASPS, Inverness / Future Folklore: The Art and Craft of Storytelling, Visual Arts Scotland, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr 2025 WINTER GROUP SHOW 2025/2026, Linden Hall Studio, Deal / ING DISCERNING EYE Mall Galleries, London / UNDOINGS Sussex Contemporary, Newhaven / PAINTING Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield / RUGBY LITERARY FESTIVAL reading from my “in-plan” book, Rhythms Of Passage: Sensuous Encounters 1 and sharing my short film Rhythms Of Passage: Sounds Escape 1, The Alexandra Arts Centre, Rugby 2024 RUGBY LITERARY FESTIVAL spoken word performance, Alexandra Arts Centre, Rugby / THE GRANGE FESTIVAL exhibition of 6 artists, The Grange, Hampshire / COLOUR Open Gallery, Halifax / LEAMINGTON OPEN Leamington Spa Art Gallery, Leamington Spa / C.A.S.E. The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry 2023 RUGBY OPEN EXHIBITION 2023 Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby (also 2015 + 2017 to 2022) / ING DISCERNING EYE Mall Galleries, London 2022 Selector for HUMANITY EXHIBITION 2023 (Outside In partnership with Sotheby’s) / PROGRESSION at D Contemporary, Grafton St, London / ENCOUNTERS (3 artists) Floor One Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby / HOWDEN GROUP Howden Group/Outside In partnership exhibition (4 artists), London (painting purchased for Howden Family Collection)