Team


Vestibule is founded by British-born Nigerian writer, artist, creative strategist and award-winning creative director, Michael Salu.

As a creative strategist and creative director, with strongly literary and scholarly underpinnings, he has developed ideas, campaigns and designs for many cultural organisations, institutions and brands, winning awards along the way.

He is also a writer and brings this narrative and research methods to multi-platform creative solutions. He is the author of Red Earth (Calamari Press, 2023), What Lies Beyond the Red Earth (Tangerine Press, 2024) and is the editor of Cybernetics, or Ghosts? (Subtext Books, 2024). His writing has also appeared in several literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, including the Paris Review, Freeman’s Journal and Sleepingfish

He has conducted extensive research into technology's impact on culture, along with publishing books, he has published several essays and has given talks with organisations like 5x15 and The Royal College of Art.

As an artist, he has exhibited internationally and he also founded House of Thought (our sibling), an artistic research practice and creative consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and he is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective.