Jadé Fadojutimi lives and works in London. Fadojutimi (b.1993) holds a BA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London (2015) and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London (2017). Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London presented the artist’s first solo exhibition in 2017 and a second in autumn 2020.
Fadojutimi’s large-scale paintings combine abstract art and figurative elements in compositions that possess an intense graphic energy. At the heart of Fadojutimi’s work is an introspective mining of facets of her own identity and the social and cultural environments that shape them. Her paintings are typically made in bursts of energetic mark-making in response to synaesthetic perceptions of colour, music, light and language. While some of her paintings are worked on over time, others are completed in a single sitting, and each evokes a memory or experience. Writing is also important to Fadojutimi’s creative practice and she expresses herself in words as readily as she does with paint, with the diaristic nature of her writing finding abstract expression in her canvases.
The Hepworth Wakefield acquired a painting entitled Ob-sess(h)-ion by Fadojutimi in 2020, which is currently on display at the gallery as part of its A Living Collection exhibition.
Fadojutimi’s 2022/23 exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, Can we see the colour green because we have a name for it? included some of Fadojutimi’s largest works to date, made in response to the scale and architectural qualities of the galleries.
