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  • Artist Biography

    Jadé Fadojutimi

    Jadé Fadojutimi is a British contemporary artist who lives and works in London. A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, Fadojutimi has seen a precipitous ascent to success: she is the youngest artist represented in the collection of the Tate, London, and has upcoming exhibitions planned for the Hepworth Wakefield and the Liverpool Biennial. Fadojutimi’s work is immersive and all-encompassing, featuring tightly woven lattices of ecstatic pigment and electric line. The raw but bubbly energy of her paintings reflects aspects of the artist’s own interiority, as she treats each canvas as an opportunity to explore undiscovered or under-interrogated aspects of her individuality. Fadojutimi believes that color and personality mingle and encourage one another; the matrices of line and color resemble the psychedelic spindles of neural networks, actualizing the artist’s investigative efforts as visual translations of the artist’s explorations of identity and fluidity.

    Fadojutimi brings a frenetic energy to painting, as many of her works are completed in late-night bursts of creativity; what may start the night as a blank canvas often emerges in the morning as a finished work. Describing her practice in environmental terms, Fadojutimi strives to incorporate the ineffable associations of memory absorbed from the warm moments and special objects of life; taken against the societal backdrop of their creation, Fadojutimi’s paintings shine out as optimistic beacons for dark times.

     
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Jadé Fadojutimi

Clustering Thoughts

2019
Cotton, silk viscose velvet, organza ribbon, grosgrain ribbon, velvet ribbon, cotton cord and embroidery, hand-dyed and stitched on linen.
45 x 64 1/2 in. (114.3 x 163.8 cm)
Signed and numbered '13 of 30' in black felt-tip pen on the reverse (there were also 2 artist's proofs), published by The Art of Empowerment - UN Women UK, London, unframed.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $10,160

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 21 June 2023