Heart of Bread, aka Buki, is a 26 year old freelance illustrator and class of 2024 student from TUS Limerick School of Art and Design’s Animation and Motion Design Bachelor’s Program.

After finishing secondary school in Nigeria with dreams of being an aeronautic engineer, Buki ended up pursuing her passions in storytelling and animation.

Although she’d been drawing since her chubby toddler fingers could hold a crayon, Buki had never studied art in any formal capacity up until that point and had to learn the hard way that the drawings that got classmates and aunties to awe were not going to cut it in any professional capacity. Learning that she had underestimated art was not out of hubris, but simply because she only knew what she knew, and most of all didn’t know what she didn’t know.

And she’s spent the rest of her life long art and storytelling journey thoroughly investigating and studying and taking action to close that gap more and more everyday.