Textile Artist & Cultural Practitioner

Textiles as living systems of memory and regeneration.

Oreoluwa creates textile works drawing upon Yoruba Adire traditions, natural dyeing, and material experimentation. His practice investigates how heritage knowledge can speak to contemporary questions around identity, sustainability and belonging.

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Portrait of a smiling African American woman artist standing in her studio surrounded by canvases.

Working between fibre, ritual, landscape, and memory.

London, UK · Lagos, Nigeria

Reinterpreting Yoruba Adire traditions through contemporary textile art, natural dyes, and regenerative practice.

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Featured Works

Each work begins with material encounter—hand-dyeing, batik wax resist, natural pigments, and recovered materials that carry both personal and political weight.

An artisan dyes fabric in a vibrant outdoor setting, showcasing traditional techniques.

Natural dye study · Studio process

About the artist

Heritage reinterpreted for now—Yoruba Adire traditions in contemporary textile art.

Oreoluwa Ayoyimika Odufejo—known as YÍÍMIIKÁ—is a Nigerian-born textile artist based in London, whose practice explores Adire traditions, natural dyes, and sustainability as urgent material and political concerns.

His practice spans exhibitions, cultural commissions, participatory workshops, and public engagement projects across Nigeria and the United Kingdom. By reinterpreting traditional African textile knowledge through contemporary visual arts, he creates works that invite reflection on heritage, identity, consumption and social change.

At the centre of his practice is urgency: what we consume, what we discard, and what we inherit. Through natural dyeing, batik techniques, reclaimed materials, and slow processes that value the hand, he creates textiles that ask critical questions about sustainability, identity, and cultural regeneration.