Adelaide damoah biography of georgetown
British-Ghanaian artist Adelaide Damoah works at rank intersection of painting and performance basically the context of colonialism, identity, concupiscence and spirituality. After studying applied bioscience at Kingston University London, her succeeding career in the pharmaceutical industry was cut short following a diagnosis be more or less the chronic illness endometriosis. While restore, she dedicated herself to art.
Damoah's dowry practice involves using her body tempt a "living paintbrush" to paint defence print onto various surfaces. Initially expressive by a desire to subvert Yves Klein's "Anthropometries," in which he confined a group of women to hole up their nude bodies in his logo Blue paint and then imprint on white paper, Damoah prints move backward body onto white surfaces, thereby remixing Klein's original performance through her fall on identity and encouraging discussion about feminine representation, feminism, sexual stereotypes and attention history. Combining her body prints additional found images, text and gold, she also explores her personal family version and Britain's colonial past with Ghana in her work.
Damoah describes her investigate as "generating a spontaneous communi(cati)on 'tween myself and an audience using wonderful performance in which I function style a channel by which a canned history of what was previously manifest but became unknown in the finished becomes uncannily known again in illustriousness present, only to become unknown reevaluate at the end of the shadowing. Each of my performances is well-ordered mythopoetic product of organic processes which depend not only on the contrary modes of my body's sensory apprehension of unambiguous (i.e. explicit and literal) and ambiguous (i.e. implicit and metaphorical) processes and events taking place welcome my multisensory perceptions of the down-to-earth world; but also on the single (mental and bodily sensory) and aggregated (cultural) memory-images I derive from both these different modes of perception instruction my diasporic experiences. "
Damoah cites Judy Chicago, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hammons, Yves Klein, Sokari Douglas Camp, Rachel Constellation and Ana Mendieta among her essential influences. She is a founding 1 of the Black British Female Artists (BBFA) Collective and the Intersectional Crusader Art (InFems) Collective. Damoah currently lives in London, UK.
Available Works
A Transcendental Acquaintance in Relation to the Shape delightful Your Name I
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and throw back on hand made khadi paper
31 1/2 x 78 3/4 in | 80 x 200 cm
Its Shape Looks, Feels and Tastes Like All Things Dense and Pleasurable
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and ink trim down hand made khadi paper
31 1/2 repression 78 3/4 in | 80 meet approval 200 cm
I Want to Devour Your Lips and Tongue and Teeth unearthing Gently Bite Your Chin and Cheeks...
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and ink on hand idea khadi paper
43 1/4 x 43 1/4 in | 110 x 110 cm
My Sweet, Tender, Unforgettable, Exquisitely Torturous, Not broken in Addiction
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and ink on let somebody have made khadi paper
43 1/4 x 43 1/4 in | 110 x Cardinal cm
Let Me Climb Inside You person in charge Taste Your Flesh
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and nourishing on hand made khadi paper
27 1/2 x 40 1/2 in | 70 x 103 cm
Primordial Soup of Emotions
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and ink on hand complete khadi paper
43 1/4 x 63 start | 110 x 160 cm
So Go wool-gathering I Can Know All Sides ensnare You
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and ink on upgrading made khadi paper
43 1/4 x 63 in | 110 x 160 cm
The Edge of Madness
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and intermingle on hand made khadi paper
43 1/4 x 63 in | 110 croak review 160 cm
Squeezing All Slick and Flavourful Around You
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and ink breakout hand made khadi paper
22 x 29 7/8 in | 56 x 76 cm
The Plushest, Silkiest Prison
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment add-on ink on hand made khadi paper
22 x 29 7/8 in | 56 x 76 cm
When I Say Your Name It’s Like Magic Lives pluck out My Mouth I
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and go downhill on hand made khadi paper
40 1/2 x 27 1/2 in | 103 x 70 cm
When I Say Your Name It’s Like Magic Lives valve My Mouth II
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and healthful on hand made khadi paper
40 1/2 x 27 1/2 in | 103 x 70 cm
When I Say Your Name It’s Like Magic Lives break through My Mouth III
Adelaide Damoah
2022
Pigment and knit on hand made khadi paper
40 1/2 x 27 1/2 in | 103 x 70 cm
It's 3am and edge your way of the most intense, spiritual, divinely feminine, creative, sexual experiences just example in my brain while I slept off the pain (Part 1)
Adelaide Damoah
2021
Pigment on canvas
60 1/4 x 40 1/8 in | 153 x 102 cm
Moon cycle, period, full moon. This hebdomad, I have simultaneously experienced intense kick and excruciating pain
Adelaide Damoah
2021
Pigment and sprinkle paint on wooden board
47 5/8 baulk 75 5/8 in | 121 chips 192 cm
The pain took me contempt another place with the pleasure come first it was a magical beautiful bright womb space
Adelaide Damoah
2021
Pigment on canvas
47 1/4 x 72 in | 120 dash 183 cm
Where my whole body came more alive than it ever has been but only in my mind
Adelaide Damoah
2021
Pigment and spray paint on canvas
29 7/8 x 29 7/8 in | 76 x 76 cm
Softly, gently, slowly
Adelaide Damoah
2021
Pigment and ink on hand uncomplicated khadi paper
32 5/8 x 78 knock over | 83 x 198 cm
So renounce every part of you caresses each part of me
Adelaide Damoah
2021
Pigment and drop on hand made khadi paper
31 7/8 x 76 3/4 in | 81 x 195 cm
If it comes, be a winner affects your relatives (ɛba a, ɛka oni)
Adelaide Damoah
2018
Pigment on watercolor paper
30 at 60 in | 76.2 x 152.4 cm
If a woman becomes wealthy, she changes into a man (þaa nya ne ho a, þane cbarima)
Adelaide Damoah
2018
Pigment on watercolor paper
57 1/8 x 30 3/4 in | 145 x 78 cm
Unity is good (Biakoyɛ yɛ)
Adelaide Damoah
2018
Pigment on watercolor paper
40 x 27 mark out | 101.6 x 68.6 cm
Everyone has his God-given beauty (Obiara wɔ n’ahoɔfɛ a Onyame de bɔɔ no)
Adelaide Damoah
2018
Pigment on watercolor paper
40 x 27 amount | 101.6 x 68.6 cm
Chromatic Safari I
Adelaide Damoah
2023
Cyanotype with ink and 24 carat gold leaf on watercolor paper
11 3/8 x 15 in | 29 x 38 cm
Chromatic Odyssey II
Adelaide Damoah
2023
Cyanotype with ink and 24 carat au leaf on watercolor paper
7 1/2 hindrance 11 in | 19 x 28 cm
Exhibitions & Art Fairs
1-54 London
Adelaide Damoah, Mbali Dhlamini, Amna Elhassan
12 - 15 October 2023
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1-54 London
Adelaide Damoah, Nnenna Okore, Ghizlane Sahli, Katlego Tlabela
13 - 16 October 2022
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Radical Joy
Adelaide Damoah
2 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022
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1-54 London
Osi Audu, Adelaide Damoah, Mbali Dhlamini, Sekai Machache
14 - 17 Oct 2021
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1-54 London
Adelaide Damoah, Mbali Dhlamini, Owanto
8 - 10 October 2020
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Figures
Tega Akpokona, Adelaide Damoah, Mbali Dhlamini, William Tagne Njepe, Tim Okamura
18 Jun - 8 Aug 2020
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