Damilola Oshilaja is a multi-disciplinary artist who is a recent Master of Arts graduate in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. The London-based artist is one of the eighty-one artists who, in 2011, represented the last collection of practitioners to emerge from the historic Charing Cross Road base of Central Saint Martins. Damilola Oshilaja began Grunge Studios (his Fine Art practice) in 1998, and he has had numerous shows in Europe; he has been shortlisted, and won a number of awards and prizes including The Artists’ and Collectors’ Bursary (University of the Arts, London). Damilola Oshilaja was born in Westminster, London United Kingdom in 1981. At the age of seven, his curiosity in art began. At the age of eleven, while hospitalized as a result of the polio virus, Damilola remained committed to the dream of becoming an Artist; and at the age of fifteen after a full recovery, Damilola Oshilaja began his professional career as an apprentice to a reputable and well heeled artist, following which the young artist established his own art practice at the age of seventeen. Whilst dedicating the last fifteen years to Arte Grunge™️, Damilola Oshilaja has been published in a variety book-works that chronicle the development of his practice. The artworks of Damilola Oshilaja are in different private and public collections in countries around the world including Sweden, France, Nigeria, The United States of America, Japan, Switzerland and The United Kingdom. Damilola Oshilaja’s practice is involved with espousing the historical core values of fine art through a 21st Century lens, and embodies painting, and curatorship. Since completing the MA in Fine Art, Damilola Oshilaja exhibited in the inaugural edition of The Other Art Fair 2011, an event billed as a showcase of the most talented and emerging artists in the UK; was appointed Artistic Director for the Nigeria pavilion at The Africa Village in Kensington Gardens, during the Cultural Olympiad in London 2012; and was shortlisted by The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in the same year. "Arte Grunge™️ as an eventual result of my fine art practice expresses gestural principles of painting in a synthesis of iconography, and sculpture in two and three dimensions. It is an art form that originates from the observation of, and interaction between form, the void, and the landscape. My work embraces a trust in flowing paint, intuitive lines, spontaneous and directed gesture, and raw aesthetic symbols and materials. " Damilola Oshilaja www.grungestudios.com