I'm Dara Babalola, a Nigerian mixed-media artist working between memory, emotion and imagined spaces.

My work begins with noticing. The small gestures between people, places we remember differently, and ordinary moments that stay with us longer than expected.

Through painting, collage, colour and texture, I build worlds where familiar things appear in unfamiliar ways. Figures, objects and fragments emerge, disappear and find their way back.

I'm interested in the things we feel but don't always have the words for and in making work that leaves room for people to find something of their own.

Friday The Fourth is the creative house I founded for everything that lives beyond the canvas.