About

Folasade Lawal is a British Nigerian illustrator, writer and art educator from South East London. She studied BA (Hons) Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts.

She creates emotive and conceptual work on a variety of subjects. Often exploring the spectrum of positive and negative states of human emotions. She creates thought provoking illustrations using symbolic and minimalistic marks, lines, textures and colours. With her love for poetic writing informing her evocative concepts.

She works with digital and traditional mediums. When making refined pieces she often works digitally, with her illustrations having an analogue quality to them.

Workshops & Talks

Harris Federation Staff Conference 2024 Guest Speaker

Black History Month: Joy and Creativity Activity, ‘African Textile Collage & Drawing Workshop’, UAL 2024

‘Out & About: A Drawing Day Out’, Haberdashers’ Hatcham College 2024

‘Out & About: A Drawing Day Out’, Harris Girls Academy East Dulwich 2024

‘Bridging the Gap Between Secondary School & Higher Education’ Panel Speaker, UAL Education Conference 2024

‘Out & About: A Drawing Day Out’, Spring Community Hub 2024

‘Life Drawing Workshop’, Harris Girls Academy East Dulwich 2023

Exhibitions and Events

'Camberwell College of Arts Illustration Degree Show, 2024

'Don't Look, I'm Not Finished: An Exhibition in Process' Peckham Levels 2024

'Project Market' Staffordshire St 2023

'Palace of Varieties' Peckham Levels 2023

'Now, Near, Far' Chelsea College of Arts 2022

Featured

‘Nine design and illustration projects by students at University of The Arts London’, Deezen 2024

Sandbox Camberwell, ‘Future’ Issue 3 2024

Sandbox Camberwell, ‘Sweet and Sour’ Issue 2 2023

Sandbox Camberwell, ‘Beginnings’ Issue 1 2022