I create art that centers Black women in sacred, culturally rooted spaces.
I create art that centers Black women in sacred, culturally rooted spaces.
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Aishat Arowosegbe is a Bradford-based Nigerian-British artist working in digital painting and watercolour. Her practice is rooted in Yoruba cultural heritage and diasporic experience, and her subjects are almost always women.
Her signature series, Ohun Inú (That Which Is Within), is a body of large-format digital paintings that draw on Yoruba textile motifs and ancestral symbolism to explore Black womanhood, spiritual identity, and the quiet power that lives in sacred spaces.
She has exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at Saltaire Arts Trail as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, and at VASW's 24th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality.
Her work holds cultural memory and contemporary identity in the same frame, particularly for the Black diaspora.
Aishat's work is rooted in the belief that art should not only be seen but felt—as an entry point into a sacred space.
She utilizes ceremonial objects like calabashes and clay pots to anchor her subjects in a rich cultural lineage.
Art is a bridge between the physical and spiritual, the past and the present, the self and the community.
The Ohun Inú series serves as a powerful testament to the resilience and divinity inherent in Black womanhood.
Each piece is meticulously crafted to overwhelm and inspire, holding space for the viewer to connect with their own "Inner I".
Exhibition
Venue
Date
Art on loop (Group)
Holy Art Gallery, London & Athens
Dec 2024 / Feb 2025
Transcendence First Edition
Boomer Gallery, London
Dec 2024
24th Community Art Exhibition
Circular Artspace, Virtual
Jan 2025
Print it! (Group)
Mill Gallery, Leeds
Mar 2025
Saltaire Arts Trail
Open Village, Bradford
May 2025
Flux and Stillness
Cista Art, Online
Nov 2025