Jadé Fadojutimi (born 1993) is a British painter. Fadojutimi lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Early life and education

Fadojutimi was born in London, England, in 1993, and is of Nigerian heritage. In 2015, she graduated with a BA from the

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, London. In 2017, she earned an MA from the

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, London.

Inspiration

After graduating from Slade, Fadojutimi took a trip to Japan. Her second encounter with Japanese culture took place in Kyoto, during a residency in 2016, which helped the artist process initial difficulties that came with integrating local culture. Expressing an ongoing interest in anime and Japanese landscapes, Fadojutimi returns five to six times a year to draw. As the artist reveals to ''Ocula Magazine'' in a 2020 interview: "Kyoto started so much for me, that's my whole painting language, and the country has this preciousness of a start."

Work

Fadojutimi's abstract paintings are inspired by source material ranging from Japanese anime to Victoriana chairs, clothing and art history. Her paintings contain both abstract and figurative elements.

Collections

Tate Museum Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

* Institute of Contemporary Art Miami *

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...

Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. The BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of ...

* Hepworth Wakefield

References

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