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Focusing on the effects of climate change, deforestation and energy consumption, Ade Adesina RSA's ecologically-minded, monumental linocuts, woodcuts and etchings approach the limits to which the medium of printmaking can be pushed.
Becoming the first RSA New Contemporary to be elected a Royal Scottish Academician in 2017, and benefitting from several RSA awards and residencies including the John Kinross Scholarship, Adesina's extraordinary success has been encouraged and recognised by the Academy throughout his career so far.
Nov 18, 2021 · Ade Adesina is a printmaker who pushes the discipline to its limits, creating monumental, large-scale works that explore complex subjects including ecological change, global conflict and human displacement.
Adesina's work combines global images: from his African heritage, travel experiences, architecture and the natural world, to create imagined scenarios. They are stories which pose questions about the human footprint on our planet and are a call to think about the way we live.
Royal Scottish Academician, member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Art, The London Group and Associate Member Royal Society of Painter-printmakers. Past Artist in Residence at Eton College & Glasgow Print Studio.
Ade Adesina (b 1980) is one of the most dynamic and accomplished practitioners of original printmaking in the UK today. With a growing reputation for technical mastery and a visionary approach to his subjects, Adesina’s work is hard to ignore.
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Ade Adesina, born in Nigeria, is an artist currently living and working in Aberdeen, Scotland. Ade previously studied printmaking at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen. He was elected as a Royal Scottish Academician in 2017 and a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Arts, also in 2017.
