This sensational oil painting on board by Jadé Fadojutimi is a prime example of the artist’s mastery of colour and dynamism. In Our Eternal Internal Tsunami Effect, Fadojutimi works across the whole surface, expanding the definition of painting by brushing, pushing, smearing and scraping colours into each other. Blue, orange and green recede and swirl in an energetic and emotionally charged composition. Using liquin to thin the oil paint, Fadojutimi conjures the image and the texture of an ocean or body of water.
At 27 years old, Fadojutimi is currently the youngest artist in the Tate collection. With a strong graphic impulse and painterly touch, Fadojutimi uses bold and energetic mark-marking to create her richly layered compositions. Exploring a complex emotional landscape, as the title Our Eternal Internal Tsunami Effect suggests, each work offer an insight into the artist’s quest for knowledge of self and the forces that guide her.
Fadojutimi (b. 1993, London) graduated with a BA from the Slade School of Art in 2015 and an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2017. She has upcoming institutional solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2021), and The Hepworth Wakefield (2022), and will be part of the Liverpool Biennial 2021. Her work is in the collections of Tate, London, The Hepworth Wakefield, ICA Miami, FL, Walker Art Center, MN, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. The artist is represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, and Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.