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Immanuel

Obani

Immanuel Obani is a multidisciplinary visual artist and data scientist now based in Bradford, England, UK. He completed an MSc in Big Data Science and Technology (Distinction) at the University of Bradford, focusing on NLP and responsible AI – a technical grounding that runs alongside his creative work rather than apart from it. He is a member of the British Art Network. Painting mainly in acrylic and charcoal, alongside digital media, Immanuel builds his work around ancestral memory, diaspora identity, and cultural heritage, drawing on an Afrofuturist visual language. He has exhibited at the Bradford African Festival of Arts, where his paintings Vessel of Memory and The Pulse of Progress received the Crescendo and Bravo Awards, and at the EducateHer Climate Initiative Launch at the University of Bradford, where his commissioned pieces addressed climate justice and gender equality. Across his practice, he returns to the same questions – how memory, culture, and identity can be held in paint and pattern.

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Bradford

Materials: Acrylic, Oil, Pencil, Watercolour
Immanuel Obani is a multidisciplinary visual artist and data scientist now based in Bradford, England, UK. He completed an MSc in Big Data Science and Technology (Distinction) at the University of Bradford, focusing on NLP and responsible AI – a technical grounding that runs alongside his creative work rather than apart from it. He is a member of the British Art Network. Painting mainly in acrylic and charcoal, alongside digital media, Immanuel builds his work around ancestral memory, diaspora identity, and cultural heritage, drawing on an Afrofuturist visual language. He has exhibited at the Bradford African Festival of Arts, where his paintings Vessel of Memory and The Pulse of Progress received the Crescendo and Bravo Awards, and at the EducateHer Climate Initiative Launch at the University of Bradford, where his commissioned pieces addressed climate justice and gender equality. Across his practice, he returns to the same questions – how memory, culture, and identity can be held in paint and pattern.

Previous Experience

Bradford African Festival of Arts (BAFA) 2026. Exhibited Vessel of Memory and The Pulse of Progress. EducateHer Climate Initiative Launch, University of Bradford 2026). Exhibited Rooted in Her and She Carries the Tide (commissioned by Real Hope Initiative CIC), and The Water Remembers; delivered session “Art as Evidence: Seeing the Climate Crisis on Canvas” GenCGov Climate Justice Commission. Created a tree artwork on climate justice, exhibited at the EducateHer launch Ongoing: GAIMF Cohort 11 Fellow (arts in medicine practice)

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