Ayola Goxo

Ayola Goxo (B: 1999 July 12) is an artist born in the Eastern Cape, East London. He spent most of his early childhood in a small town called Butterworth and his teen years in East London before moving to Gauteng in 2019 to study Design Techniques in Open Window Institute. Ayola started drawing as soon as he could hold a pen and held on to that skill as a tool to explore and express his visual language through a variety of techniques.

Ayola enjoys geometry and uses largely in the medium of oil paint among other traditional painterly mediums. The shapes and compositions in his art carry aspects of post-cubist and surrealist art movements, and he uses sacred massages to explore the changes of human values as we move forward in modern society; we relinquish our innate patterns in order to adjust and keep up with the changes we make as a society; our values change and we are either pushed closer or further away from the ways of our nature, raising the question of what it means to develop as a human species.

With his work, viewers are driven to look inward and challenge their thoughts and feeling about the evolution of humanity in modern society.