IyunOla Sanyaolu is a graduate of the University of Lagos, where she studied painting and was awarded the female visual artist of the year 2018, from the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos. She had been a full-time, professional artist working out of her art studio in Lagos, Nigeria since 2017. She enjoys adding a unique perspective to her work and experimenting which influences her artistic practice. She works with various mediums but currently her preferred medium is oil paint. An ethos that art has the ability to counter the I’ll show of life and positively transform ones mindset, underpins the work she creates. She is a 2019/2020 Arts in Medicine (AIM) Fellow and a Graduate Art Program (GAP) 2020 cohort.