{"id":7413,"date":"2020-11-27T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:51:19","slug":"shaquille-oyeyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/shaquille-oyeyinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille Oyeyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"il\">Shaquille <\/span>takes his inspiration from video games characters and memes found on the internet. Capturing their graphic forms, Shaquille uses 6b pencil and coloured pencils and creates multiple drawings in one sitting. Through his studies of each character, <span class=\"il\">Shaquille<\/span> combines and merges elements of the carefully observed forms in his drawings to create new characters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><!--close .artist-intro-->\n<div id='td-gallery-1' class='flickity galleryid-8317'><div class=\"slides\"><figure class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t            <div class=\"gallery-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille_WebRes-528x533.jpg\" class=\"attachment-artist_slides size-artist_slides\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille_WebRes-528x533.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille_WebRes-1057x1066.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t                <figcaption class='gallery-caption'>\n\t\t                2025\n\t\t                <\/figcaption><\/figure><figure 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srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_1-68x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_1-135x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><div class=\"navpic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"65\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_2-65x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-micro_thumbs size-micro_thumbs\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_2-65x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_2-131x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><div class=\"navpic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"66\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_3-66x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-micro_thumbs size-micro_thumbs\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_3-66x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_3-132x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><div class=\"navpic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"67\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_4-67x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-micro_thumbs size-micro_thumbs\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_4-67x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shaquille-Oyeyinka_4-134x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><div class=\"navpic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"67\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0473-1-67x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-micro_thumbs size-micro_thumbs\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0473-1-67x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0473-1-134x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><div class=\"navpic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"65\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0470-1-65x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-micro_thumbs size-micro_thumbs\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0470-1-65x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0470-1-129x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><div class=\"navpic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"32\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0875_low-res-32x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-micro_thumbs size-micro_thumbs\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0875_low-res-32x48.jpg 1x, https:\/\/actionspace.org\/artists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0875_low-res-64x96.jpg 2x\" \/><\/div><\/div><!--close .picnav--><\/div><!--close .flickity--><\/div><!--close .row-->\n<div class=\"responsive-tabs\">\n<h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Exhibitions<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/cockpit-open-studios-2025\/\"><em>Cockpit Winter Open Studios<\/em>, 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/concealed-revealed\/\"><em>Concealed, Revealed,<\/em> Cockpit Bloomsbury Winter Open Studios, London, 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artetal.org\/collections\/mentorship04\"><em>Le Visible et l\u2019invisible<\/em>, Art et al, 2023 (online exhibition)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/watch-this-exhibition\/\"><em>Watch This\u2026,<\/em> Cockpit Winter Open Studios, 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/actionspace.org\/shaking-the-everyday\/\"><em>The Out There Art Fair: Shaking the Everyday<\/em>, Cockpit Arts Winter Open Studios, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaquille takes his inspiration from video games characters and memes found on the internet. 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