In the Studio with Farouk Alao

Until 31 October 2025 / London Hoxton

Current Artist in Residence

Meet Farouk Alao

Farouk Alao aka Farouk858 is a Nigerian-Irish multidisciplinary artist and designer based in London. A self-proclaimed creative crackhead, he needs to create to survive. His work spans digital media, installation and painting, exploring emotional connections with technology through a culturally rooted lens. He has created for the Tate, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Guinness, The Living Canvas and London’s Outernet. Farouk is also the founder of 858, home to Studio858, 858 Art Club, 858Garms and 858 Watches. His practice invites curiosity, blending digital tools and human feeling to connect across cultures and disciplines. Farouk is pioneering a new technique he calls OMNAISSANCE, where he blends bleeding-edge contemporary technology with traditional techniques.

During his residency he will be diving deeper into his world by expanding on two major threads in my practice: the Ballys and RYNO.

The Ballys are a series of paintings that explore identity, code-switching and cultural layering. He’ll be continuing the series with new formats and materials that sit somewhere between street energy and sacred object.

Alongside that, Farouk will be developing RYNO, a new character he has been exploring through physical mediums like painting, sculpture and mixed media, while also pushing him further into digital space. It’s like watching a myth unfold across dimensions, with each version revealing something new.

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