Olaolu Slawn welcomes me into his studio by pretending to shoot me in the face. His finger-gun remains high, and his facial expression, solemn, until I initiate a pound hug, at which point he ...

UK-based Nigerian artist Olaolu Slawn, known simply as Slawn, is on an impressive creative trajectory. His artwork 'Alara, Ajero and Orangun' recently sold for an astounding £31,750 (N55,566,500 ...

Nigerian designer Olaolu Akeredolu-Ale, popularly known as Olaolu Slawn, celebrated Africa Day in style when he announced his collaboration with French luxury brand Louis Vuitton. Slawn ...

Artist Olaolu Slawn’s monumental installation for the 2024 edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Photo by Ben Montgomery/Getty Images A double-decker bus spray-painted with cartoon ...

The 23-year-old has been living off of his art – as well as the profits made from Motherlan, the streetwear label he co-founded with his school and skateboarding friends Olaolu Slawn and Onyedi ...

The Brit Awards 2023 trophy design was entrusted to London-based, Nigeria-born artist Slawn. As the design is revealed ahead of the 11 February 2023 event – with such renowned predecessors as Vivienne ...

This very extract inspired me to ask Olaolu Slawn – an omnipresent Nigerian-British artist I boldly named “the Jean-Michel Basquiat of our time” – about his own choice of footwear during my recent ...

The youngest entries on our list are tennis star Jack Draper, 22, and Olaolu Slawn, the 24-year-old British-Nigerian artist and king of spray painting. Draper, from south London, climbed to a ...

Think celebrities and watches and minds tend to default to the six figure bling guys like Chris Hemsworth rock on the daily. But A-listers dig affordable watch brands like Timex, Casio, Swatch and ...

“I just have no interest in my art. I make it so I can f*** about”. Olaolu Slawn, the latest enfant terrible of the London art scene is notorious for his satirical spray-paints. The Nigerian-British ...