Adaeze Adinnu (b.1996) is a Nigerian-British portrait and figurative artist whose work is inspired by childhood experiences. Adunnu grew up in a household where the nature of her parents’ work was rooted in a constant migration cycle. At every location, she felt time fleeting away as she tried to bond with people in her new environment. Solitude was often not far away, hence she turned to art as a vehicle to preserve the memories of people, experiences, and places.
Adaeze’s paintings are typically composed of young people in living spaces sitting, standing, or reclining. She is a lover of color and its power to convey potent messages. In a painting titled “Rainbow of Possibilities,” she portrays a young lady lounging on a sofa, in a room where iridescent light baths both body and space, open to the life unfolding before her, open to a rainbow of possibilities.
Born in Nigeria, Adaeze is proud of her heritage which she reflects throughout her artwork. Whilst continuing to exhibit her paintings within Nigeria, Adaeze has already worked with local businesses to create eye-catching commissions.
She has painted a mural at the Headquarters of Pepsi Cola in Nigeria. Adaeze’s work remains pride of place in the Chinese Cultural Centre in Nigeria – a piece requested personally by the National President of Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FEAAN), Chinze Ojobo, who remains an advocate for Fabloz Artistry.
Adinnu was part of a group exhibition titled ‘When the Sun Stands Still’ with Mitochondria Gallery in Houston, Texas this past June. Here she got to show with different artists from West and East Africa where they each explored styles in the form of realism, with elements of abstraction and surrealism in their work. In September 2022, Adinnu had a solo exhibition at the artexpo in Dallas, Texas.
