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Adulphina

Imuede

My practice explores the relationship between the body and interior experience, with particular attention to the head as a site of consciousness, memory, and spiritual presence within African cosmological frameworks. I use the head as a recurring theme to consider how identity and interiority are held, shaped, and expressed through form. I am interested in the tension of the dual selves: the self presented and the self protected; what is revealed, what is withheld, and what exists in between. My figures often appear in states of stillness or trance, suggesting psychological and emotional interiority rather than fixed identity. My practice has expanded into ceramics, where material processes such as pressure, fragility, repetition, and transformation become central to meaning-making. These processes have encouraged my interest in how materials themselves participate in the communication of interior experience. I work across watercolour, acrylic, ink, oil, gouache, pastels, and clay, using both controlled and intuitive methods to explore texture, embodiment, and visual storytelling. Across all media, my work is guided by a desire to create spaces that hold complexity where memory, identity, and emotion can exist simultaneously without resolution.

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Aberdeen

Materials: Acrylic, Oil, Paper, Pencil, Watercolour

My practice explores the relationship between the body and interior experience, with particular attention to the head as a site of consciousness, memory, and spiritual presence within African cosmological frameworks. I use the head as a recurring theme to consider how identity and interiority are held, shaped, and expressed through form. I am interested in the tension of the dual selves: the self presented and the self protected; what is revealed, what is withheld, and what exists in between. My figures often appear in states of stillness or trance, suggesting psychological and emotional interiority rather than fixed identity. My practice has expanded into ceramics, where material processes such as pressure, fragility, repetition, and transformation become central to meaning-making. These processes have encouraged my interest in how materials themselves participate in the communication of interior experience. I work across watercolour, acrylic, ink, oil, gouache, pastels, and clay, using both controlled and intuitive methods to explore texture, embodiment, and visual storytelling. Across all media, my work is guided by a desire to create spaces that hold complexity where memory, identity, and emotion can exist simultaneously without resolution.

Previous Experience

-All Conception of Boundaries are Lies: Pre-Degree Exhibition, Gray’s School of Art. Aberdeen, UK, 2026. -Delicate Things & A Place Called There: Wunika Mukan Gallery, Lagos. September 2025. -Kuenyehia Prize For Contemporary Art Short-Listed Artists Exhibit at 1952 Africa, Lagos. April 2025. -Pamphlets: Rele Gallery, Lagos. December 2024 -Verdure: A Condition of Freshness by Arushi Gallery and So Much Art. Los Angeles, CA. February 2023. -Girls Run the World: Eclectica Contemporary. Cape Town, SA. August 2022. -Intersecting Identities: Arushi Gallery. Los Angeles, CA. February 2022 -Faces of The Homeland: African Art Wave. Coningsby Gallery, London, UK. January 2022. -Art On A Postcard by The Auction Collective. Curated by Mollie E Barnes. London, UK. September 2021. -I Love Who You Are, I Love Who You Ain’t: Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, FL. August 2021. -The Human Experience: The Project Space. Gallery Fanon, Johannesburg, SA. September 2020.

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