Our Potent Revolution

Jadé Fadojutimi (1993 - )

oil, oil stick and acrylic on canvas

2021
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: France
    City: Paris
    Place: British Embassy

    Jadé Fadojutimi’s energetic large-scale rhythmic and emotive paintings shift between abstraction and figuration. Art critic Jennifer Higgie describes Fadojutimi’s handling of paint as ‘...replete with possibility as newly composted earth'. Her paintings derive their shapes, colours and patterns from clothing, anime, video games, soundtracks, childhood obsessions, memories and objects. This work exudes a sense of fervour and hopefulness, indicated in both the title and bright palette of the work. Created during a time of global turbulence, the vivid, explosive marks invoke a sense of revolution, both in the moment we are living and within the language of painting.



  • About the artist
    Jadé Fadojutimi lives and works in London. Her work is included in major international collections including Tate, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Walker Art Centre, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
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    Title
    Our Potent Revolution
    Date
    2021
    Medium
    oil, oil stick and acrylic on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 170.0 cm; width: 190.0 cm; depth: 4.0 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, February 2022
    Provenance
    Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 9 February 2022
    GAC number
    19035