António Ole

António Ole was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1951. He studied Afro-American Culture and Film at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and has developed an eclectic body of work over five decades, including drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and film. He draws inspiration from traditional art as a stimulus to develop a contemporary discourse suited to his time and circumstances. The elements in his work evoke the colonial period, slavery, war, destruction, poverty, human nature, and the capacity to resist and survive.