Originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Tayo Adekunle is a British Nigerian photographer based in Edinburgh. Working a lot with self-portraiture, she uses her work to explore issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality as well as racial and colonial history. Her work is centred around the reworking of historical tropes relating to the black female body, taking from contexts that include art historical paintings and sculptures as well as 19th century colonial photography. By placing historical imagery in a contemporary context, the relationship between the treatment of the black female body in the past and its treatment in the present day is explored.
BA (Hons) Photography, Edinburgh College of Art, 2016- 2020
2021 – SSA Annual Exhibition (upcoming)
RSA New Contemporaries 2021 (upcoming)
2020 – Futureproof 2020, Street Level Photoworks
COUP DE FOUDRE, Insurgency Gallery and Five Years
THIS IS TOMORROW CALLING (Wishing you were here),
Alt_D at Zembla Gallery
A Quest That’s Just Begun, Wooosh Gallery with Generator Projects
Alt_D Alternative Graduate Showcase (Online)
Buffering… Final Year Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art
2019 - She__. Exhibition, Whitespace Gallery
Butter On Bacon, Hospitalfield, Arbroath
2018 - Material Dialogues, Fire Station, Edinburgh
2017 - ECA End of Year Exhibition, DOK Space
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show Purchase Prize – 2020
Clason-Harvie Bursary – 2020
Astaire Art Prize 2020 - Shortlisted Artist
Guts UK, London
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
The Brass Monkey, Edinburgh
Reclamation of the Exposition #03, Artefact #03 and Degree Show Proposal, The University of Edinburgh Art Collection, Edinburgh, 2020
ECA Micro-Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Dundee
British Journal of Photography, Feb 2021
The Delicate Rebellion Magazine, The (Un)Influenced Issue, Issue 2
The Skinny, September 2020
No! Wahala Magazine, September 2020
Source Graduate Supplement in Source, Issue 101, Summer 2020
Abridged 0-60: Echo, June 2020
Edinburgh Scotsman, 26th June 2020
ROOT-ed Zine, Issue 10, January 2020