Festus Iranlade Adeyemi
My inspiration to pursue art as a career is to communicate in a verbal and non-verbal way about people and the environment. This goal has motivated me to speak about societies, environment, waste, ecology, recycling, and human expectations.
For the display of artworks in the VC’s office in Loughborough University, my artwork is inspired by the diversity of people, staff, students, and their strategies. Hence the expressed togetherness instincts in the varying images of the constructed piece.
The diverse vibrancy as portrayed in my artwork depicts the blends of different shapes, sizes, and colours of plastics and single-use items, The floating is common sight during raining season around the environment of developing spaces like Lagos, Nigeria. However, the beauty of the individual floating wares is evident through my artistic representation and the attempt to speak and campaign about how careless throwaway in the emerging spaces could be a beauty to behold when they are recycled as artworks. The strategy is a form of campaign for the reclaiming and rethinking of waste as valued asset.
Representing the exquisiteness of the shapes and colours of the constructed characters of my piece in the context of inclusiveness in Loughborough University implies unity, diversity, and richness of ideas. It also indicates celebrating human rights, heritages, and opportunities to achieve individual goals.
The diversity and inclusive theme therefore resonate with me as an international student and a PhD research Candidate in the School of Design and Creative Art (SDCA).