For The Creators

In this episode we sit down with incredibly talented Visual Artist and Photographer Asiko. Asiko is an artist who expresses his work through the medium of photography and mixed media. His work is constructed in a narrative that straddles between fantasy and reality as a response to his experiences of identity, heritage and culture. His work was featured on the @bbc and @huffingtonpost and has also been exhibited at the London Southbank, The Gallery of African Art in London and his first show was at the Rele Gallery in Nigeria.My conversation with Asiko definitely took him on trip down memory lane. From his childhood growing up in Nigeria, his obsession with fantasy and graphic novels, his mothers reaction to his love of the arts, to studying to become a doctor at university and then that moment when he took up the camera for the first time. We also discussed his signature style of photography, his time spent living as a starving artist and the twists and turns he has encountered to become an artist