Hello and welcome to the website of Adelaide Damoah, an exciting new British artist.
Adelaide has had a number of successful art Exhibitions since her first appearance on the London art scene in 2006. Read her full Biography here and watch videos of her talking about her work and at her shows in the Media section.
You will remember her from her appearances on national television in the UK when BBC London news and Channel 5 news covered her début solo exhibition Black Brits, view this gallery here.
Adelaide, a self-taught artist, has taken inspiration from the post WW1 movement of Dadaism and specifically from the German Dadaist Hugo Ball. His concept of using art to examine and criticise the current times is evident in her most recent commission for the National Centre for Domestic Violence. To view this work please go the Gallery.
Through her work with charities like the NCDV, Adelaide is choosing to push her work through a forward thinking positive approach to societies current issues and in so doing, she hopes to capture the "spirit of the times" or Zeitgeist.
In the artists own words:
All Art reflects life. Art is a biography, a personal one and a
universal one. I paint because I love it, because I need to and
because I want to, I am living my dream.
As an artist, there are many issues that get Adelaide thinking and which get her creative juices flowing. Those issues range from human rights, every day dramas, emotional upsets, social media, and reality TV. Adelaide has something to say about it all, and she says it by visually interpreting issues through her paintings.
Expect the unexpected, the best is yet to come.
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Inspired by Mexican artist Frida Khalo, Adelaide Damoah started out creating powerful abstract emotion filled pieces which reflected the mood that she was in and what she was going through emotionally. Often, the pieces produced came from a place of physical and emotional pain. She says, "Sometimes I sit and draw or paint whatever comes to mind and that is when the most strange pieces are produced...". This is something that Adelaide Damoah does on a regular basis, so this gallery will be updated frequently.
The Black Brits exhibition took place in February 2006 in popular menswear designer Charlie Allen's boutique. Through a series of oil paintings of British icons, Adelaide Damoah sought to ask the British public to think about the nature of iconography by switching the skin colour of icons such as David Beckham and Kate Moss.
Black Lipstick is a collection of erotic portraits inspired by an exlover. During this period, the artist was actively exploring the more dominant side of her personality, expressed in this series of work of her personal life.
Some of the pieces were deemed too sexually explicit to be shown for more than one night at a prominent London gallery.
On the 1st of October, Adelaide had a showing of ten works on behalf of the charity the National Centre for Domestic Violence. Held in London's Soho, the evening showing marked the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness Month to highlight the work of the charity.
Supermodels is a collection of eighteen striking paintings featuring powerful images which distort some well known international supermodels and celebrity icons.
These works completed between 2006 and 2008 by Adelaide Damoah represent an intense period of her career when she was personally affected by the death of Brazilian model Anna Carolina Reston in 2006.
The works were exhibited in 2008 at Nolias gallery in Southwark, London.
Abode Santaan - Totality of the Universe
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