Adelaide Damoah

Adelaide Damoah, born in London in 1976, is a British-Ghanaian artist working at the intersection of painting and performance within the context of colonialism, identity, sexuality and spirituality.

Damoah’s current practice involves using her body as a “living paintbrush” to paint or print onto various surfaces. Initially inspired by a desire to subvert Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries,” in which he directed a group of women to cover their nude bodies in his signature Blue paint and then imprint themselves on white paper, Damoah prints her body onto white surfaces, thereby remixing Klein’s original performance through her own identity and encouraging discussion about female representation, feminism, sexual stereotypes and art history. Combining her body prints with found images, text and gold, she also explores her personal family history and Britain’s colonial past with Ghana in her work.

Adelaide Damoah is a founding member of the ‘Black British Female Artists Collective’ (BBFA) and the ‘Intersectional Feminist Art Collective’ (InFems) and has exhibited and performed widely in the UK and across Europe.  Her work is contained in numerous collections nationally and internationally including the Government Art Collection, UK, and Fondation H Paris/Madagascar.

Adelaide Damoah is represented by Sakhileandme, Frankfurt.