We Need To Talk About Whiteness - with Adelaide Damoah

Ep 48: Whiteness in Art - Adelaide Damoah is a British-Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist, who uses investigative practices spanning painting, performance, collage, image transfer and photographic processes, to interrogate colonialism, spirituality and intersectional feminism. Since her debut exhibition ‘Black Brits’ in 2006, she has exhibited in shows nationally and internationally from Lagos to Cannes. She is a founding member of the Black British Female artist (BBFA) Collective and a co-founder of the Intersectional Feminist (INFEMS) Art Collective, and in 2019, she became the first black artist to be appointed an academician of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA). She joins me to talk whiteness in art, who curates what gets appreciated and her body as a canvas. Note: This episode was recorded in June 2021 so some events are now in the past.