Joy Osula is a Nigerian Austrian multidisciplinary artist and creative director whose work bridges the worlds of fashion, print, poetry and film. Her practice explores migration, heritage and contemporary identity by transforming personal and collective memory into visual narratives of resilience and renewal.
Through her label Joy Osula World, she reinterprets Nigerian Edo inspired motifs and Yoruba traditional textile techniques such as Adire and Aso Oke, translating them into modern silhouettes, installations and mixed media forms. Each piece becomes both an artefact and a conversation where culture, faith, and design meet.
Her latest print series, Expansion (created in collaboration with textile artist Saira Holder), maps a journey across Lagos, London and Surrey, capturing the emotional landscapes of migration and belonging. Through colour, texture and sound, Osula invites viewers to experience movement as both memory and becoming, a meditation on what it means to carry many homes within one body.
