Oluwatobiloba Ajayi
is a London-based artist, writer, and Deputy Editor of DADA Magazine, an art publication dedicated to Black artists. Tobi’s work centres on the importance of space within Black feminist epistemologies. She has been studying printmaking for ten years, and her trace prints and prints of traces reference both material and imagined spaces. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Princeton University and her Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, specialising in Post-war Black British Art. In her writing, she continues to nurture her throughline of care and criticism, and her writing has appeared in PIN—UP, 032c, Elephant, and the Architectural Review, among other outlets.
@oluwatobilobaajayi_ // tobi_ajayi@ymail.com
Selected artworks
Untitled (I write because I long to be brought into being, 1), typewriter ribbon ink on paper, 2024, 5.5 x 4”Surviving abstraction through abstraction (to borrow from Torkwase Dyson), Oil paint on paper and tape residue, 2024 Where edges meet, acrylic on found wood, 62 x 102cm, 2024 (double-sided)
The best of us, ink on paper, 41 x 51 cm, 2024A tongue exasperated, ink on paper, 41 x 51 cm, 2024
A rupture of self and a self ‘found’, 39 x 39 cm and 41 x 41 cm,
ink on paper and acrylic on found wood, 2024
Without what I can not do, acrylic on found wood, 61 x 61 cm, 2024
Was It Worth It?, digital print on canvas, 46” by 64”, 2023A Mother’s Plate I, mono screenprint, 8” by 11”, 2021 Where the World Starts and Ends, monoprint and silk-screen, 2021Senseless Activity I, drypoint etching, 2021On the margin the temperature drops a few degrees, edition of 3, 2021-2022On home, silk-screen, edition of 6, 2021
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