Adelaide’s show for the NCDV a success!!
Source: Damoah Arts
Published: 6th October 2009

On the 1st of October, Adelaide had a showing of ten works on behalf of the charity the National Centre for Domestic Violence. Held in London’s Soho, the evening showing marked the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness Month to highlight the work of the charity.

Set up in 2006 by Steve Connor, the charity concentrates on offering legal aid and injunctions against the perpetrators of domestic violence on behalf of the victims, irrespective of their financial position.

For the commission, Adelaide chose to depict ten scenes taken directly from the victim’s stories of domestic violence. Large impressive works, the smudged and distorted images display the harrowing effects that DV has for its victims.

Since much of the work carried out by the charity concerns pregnant women, Adelaide chose this as the focal point. The centrepiece was a work entitled ‘Peanut’ that shows a baby in a mothers womb inscribed over a poem from the dying baby to father.

At the start of the evening, after an introduction speech by Steve Connor, Adelaide read the poem to the attendees in the room. The hushed reception drew quieter as the audience listened to the harrowing pleas of the baby in the poem and several members of the audience were visibly moved.

The evening was well received by all concerned and met the approval of Eastenders’ star Nick Bailey who came along to the event to lend his support for the charity. The artworks will be auctioned later this year for a charity ball, to be organised to help raise both awareness and funds for their continued work.

The evening was organised on behalf of the charity by the very capable and professional Full Portion Media, hosted by Teresa Quinlan and Natalie Whitlock who did an outstanding job.

www.ncdv.org.uk

Adelaide Damoah was wearing…
Dresss, jacket and hat designed by Nkwo,
www.nkwo.co.uk
Hand bag designed by Ndamus Bags,
www.ndamus.com

Contemporary British Painters in Opera Galéria
Source: Magyar Hirlap Online
Published: 26th June 2009

(original article written in Hungarian. Translation services provided by webforditas.hu)

Ten British creator a June introduced itself on 25 in the evening in Opera Galéria. The opening was going on on a Hungarian and English language, and cosy jazz music was added to the sight of the pictures.

Our homeland rarely exhibit English painters, dared mostly the to rest desiring his target country we are, little are known about us moreover. Counts as an extraordinary event because of this the ten artists deploying exhibition, from among them three people especially noteworthy in the contemporary art: Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, Adelaide Damoah and Iain Andrews. Some next texts inform the visitor beside their creations: you are from the artist’s own writing you quote, you are an artistic expert we may read his opinion.

The leader of Szoy Tibor, the gallery as a preliminary Francis Bacon (1909-1992) the contemporary quoted a painter’s words from art. From among the artists Adelaide Damoah and Andrew M. Whamond was the venisszázson on a sign – both of them spend short time on Budapest only, Adelaide knew that his ideal, Frida Kahlo was with Hungarian ancestry punctually though, that felt good separately to be audible. Andrew M. Whamond and his wife spoke about Nemzeti Galéria collection most appreciatively though. The exhibitor artists apart from the ones mentioned higher up: Mark Lockwood, Steven John Harris, Sonja Benskin-Mesher, Oliver Perry, Maria Onyegbule and Jo Holland.

The effect of the pictures is vigorous undeniably on the walls painted onto the white. Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf with large oil portrait, Mediterranean mood, türkiz-zöld-narancs his colour world, and his personality depiction ability beside the decorative effect affected the visitors powerfully. Presents female faces, bringing the painted characters close entirely. The paintress with an Australian birth his mother’s picturesque work, and the human shapes, the womanhood, his women expressing an interest in a body attracted it to the art.

With the creations of Iain Andrews, the artist teacher with a 1974 birth, like this saint Teréz ecstasy title accomplishes the dialogue of the artistic ages with his oil painting: comments on the old grand masters’ works, shaping the original works transforming the shapes, vigorous one with brushstrokes longer. This kind calls the attention for the questions of a playful interpretation, the postmodern age left without an answer: builds up a dialogue between the tradition built up already and his present creators’ world.

Adelaide Damoah, a paintress with Ghanaian ancestry studied applied biology and constituted himself beside it. Primarily with the identity, the woman deals with that of a self-image, his characteristic series with a provocative, attracting effect. 2006, black British title wanted to call the audience for a debate through the portraits of known personalities with his exhibition (Margaret Thatcher, you are Winston Churchill Naomi Campbell), where he modified the characters’ skin colour. The creations presented in Opera Galéria emphasize the awkwardnesses of the model cult of the beauty industry, concerned Vénusz birth a Botticelli paraphrase dissects the relativity of the beauty’s concept.

Andrew Whamond (1947) painter copper engraving artist with much humour, and depicts the human body with characteristic deficiencies, shows a personality. The body parts play a symbolic role on the pictures, which are abstract emotional depictions in one. Opera Galéria exhibition July the interested ones may inspect it until 9.

Press Release – Supermodels
Source: Damoah Arts
Published: September 2008

Supermodels is a new exhibition consisting of a series of eighteen striking paintings featuring powerful images which distort some well known international supermodels and celebrity icons. The latest works by Adelaide Damoah represent an intense period of her career when she was personally impacted by the death of Brazilian supermodel Anna Carolina Reston in 2006.

Please click here to read the full press release (PDF).