Drawing from her immediate surroundings and personal interests, Jadé Fadojutimi creates abstract painting that are characterised by rhythmic marks and swathes of saturated colours.
Read MoreCentral to Fadojutimi's practice is identity, exploring the means of its construction through painting. The imagery she uses often draws from the artist's own life, from her love for Japanese anime and Korean drama to music, video games, and soft toys, that are rendered as abstracted colours and marks on canvas.
The dynamic gestures the artist uses may suggest recognisable forms, such as hints of a rectangular space in By the Window (2017), which reflects Fadojutimi's obsession with her window. Yet the dynamic marks in blue and red confound a smooth interpretation of the work, punctuating the canvas with translations of personal sentiments and memories into colour.
The studio has been a source of inspiration for the artist, who translated her habit of painting at night into Heliophobia (2017). Overlaid with darker lines and spots of orange, the dominantly grey canvas conjures up the glowing atmosphere of her night studio' as Rory Mitchell observed in Ocula Advisory in 2020.
Due to the Covid-19 induced lockdown, Fadojutimi was forced to work away from her studio, during which she produced paintings for her solo exhibition Jesture (2020) at London's Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. Working with the recently adopted oil pastels, alongside her customary paints, Fadojutimi experimented with building up layers of paint and bold lines to create such works as OB-SESS(H)-ION and THERE EXISTS A GLORIOUS WORLD. IT'S NAME? THE LAND OF SUSTAINABLE BURDENS (both 2020).
