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A celebration of Ada's Art.
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Abundance Collection is celebration of life’s quiet miracles…

From darkness to light, doubt to dreaming again. Inspired by a journey of rediscovery, this collection honours the beauty of being held by love, community, and the universe.

To be is to be abundant.

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Thank you to everyone who has held me along this journey called life.💗🙏🫂

To the sun and its morning kisses, to the white feather and its knowing glide. The butterfly and her beautiful guidance! the dragonfly and its divine guidance. ✨
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#abundance #abundancecollection #capsulecollection #campiagn #behindthescenes #photoshoot #model #modelling #shoot #friends #inspiredbylife #madeinnigeria #divine #beautiful #comment #viral #share #fyp by @adasartislife

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Freedom is like embracing the multidimensionality of self.

What a journey life has been! When Freedom Is Like… was first born, it was intended to be just three fleeting moments—something that would happen and pass, something I wasn’t sure fit into the vision I had for myself. Fast forward over a year later, and I find myself hosting Freedom Is Like… in the same space where I am exhibiting my artworks. I am the artist, the host, the interviewer—I am self in all its uncertain and imperfect magic.

For me, joy has been realizing that not feeling great is never a reason to deny myself happiness. Joy, for me, has had the opportunity to rest upon the shoulders of community, through the BMT Family (@bmtculturehub ), the Freedom Is Like team, and the Radiant exhibition (@mojun.jpg ). I have found the greatest success and fulfillment through friendships, connection, and community, and I am so humbled and grateful.

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me this year. You all know the big ways you’ve helped—I quite literally wouldn’t be here without you.

Ese!🙏🙏🙏

Congratulations on an incredible exhibition, curator Abigail Fakoyo (@mojun.jpg). Girl, you alchemized!!! Thank you for allowing me to exhibit my work alongside all the artists I fan-girl over. Ese!🙏🙏🙏

Featured artists include @adasartislife, @maanipe, @bexx.lr, @birungiart, @cr1b.store, @farrahrileygray, @artbyfunmi, @giftydzenyophotography, @ibijoke.img, @kirstydraws, @labet.makes.art, @sabinasilverstudios, @saidat_ani, @shadzs_art, @tomilolaolumideart, @yelitagram, @yvadneydavisart taken in Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London by @adasartislife

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RADIANT Exhibition >< Freedom Is Like Events x Radiant Exhibition

Behind the scenes exhibition set-up shots by Tomilola - aka Sis (@tomilolaolumideart )💖✨️💖 Thank you so much for the shots Sis!

With pieces from my degree show, to ones that have mark my creative journey post uni, I am so excited to be apart of Radiant Exhibtion. Ready yourself for sneak peaks from the 'What Do We Become' @young.barbican exhibition and @foreignscape exhibition - all reimagined with a slight twist!😏 All alongside, Freedom Is Like, an event series I organise with @bmtculturehub.😄

Curated by Abigail Fakoya, this exhibition features the work of seventeen contemporary artists and creatives who share the intersectional identity of ‘Black Woman’. Radiant explores the joy experienced, cultivated, and shared by Black women through various art forms.

Featured artists include Adanma Nwankwo, Amaani Oluwa, Bex. Birungi Kawooya, CR1B Crafts, Farrah Riley Gray, Funmi Lijadu, Gifty Dzenyo, Joke Amusan, Kirsty Atek, Lola Betiku, Sabina Silver, Saidat Animasaun, Sade Popoola, Tomilola Olumide, Yelita Ali and Yvadney Davis.

Radiant Exhibtion Private view
🗓Thursday, 29th November
⏰ Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN

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Freedom Is Like - Day Event
🎟 LIMITED FREE Tickets linked in @bmtstories bio
An afternoon of rest and recharge featuring meditation, vocal flow, and creative play.
🗓Friday, 29th November
⏰ Time: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
📍 Venue: Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN

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Freedom Is Like - Evening Event
🎟LIMITED FREE Tickets linked in @bmtstories bio
Our signature evening blends 'show and tell' segments with featured performances land a closing talk by a guest speaker.
⏰ Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN by @adasartislife

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~Thursday, 28th November~ (In-Person)
Radiant Exhibition - Private View
🎨 Role: Exhibiting Artist
⏰ Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN
Intro: I will be exhibitinhg work as part of Radiant Exhibition. Radiant Exhibition celebrates Black woman joy. Curated by Abigail Fakoya, it highlights joy that is experienced, cultivated, and shared by Black women through the works of contemporary artists and creatives.

~Friday, 29th November~ (In-Person)
🕊️ Freedom Is Like - Day Event
Role: Organiser & Facilitator
🎟 Tickets linked in @bmtstories bio
⏰ Time: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
📍 Venue: Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN
Intro: An afternoon of rest and recharge featuring meditation, 🧘 vocal flow, 🎶 and creative play. 🎨 Join us as we reconnect with ourselves.

~Friday, 29th November~ (In-Person)
🌙Freedom Is Like - Evening Event
Role: Organiser & Host
🎟 Tickets linked in @bmtstories bio
⏰ Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN
Intro: Our signature evening blends 'show and tell' segments 🎤 with featured performances 🌟 and a closing talk by a guest speaker. by @adasartislife

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✨️Welcome to Adanma's World✨️ ~ A glimpse into my way of being.

We all live life, yet we each attempt to understand it in different, or perhaps similar, ways. Life and living are still vague concepts to me. What is life, and what does it truly mean to be alive—to be living? I’m still trying to comprehend how it all works. But each day, I take my own shaky steps, holding my own shaky breaths, as I navigate and try to translate what my soul sings to me.

So, welcome to another shaky breath—one that's out in the world, like a gasp of air trying to exist in a world of gasping air. From the creative whims of self-expression to the realms of fashion (@adasfashionislife ), jewelry (@adasjewellryislife ) , and art (@adasartislife ) —welcome to my journey with self.

Name: Adanma Nwankwo
Age: 23
Occupation: Adanmaist ~ Adventurer of life ~ From the highs of curious excitement to the depth of revealing shadows, I ride the waves of life to remain untethered to any one way of being.
Creative Expressions: artist, designer, stylist, writer, archivist, host, event coordinator, and more to come.

Welcome to my corners of this digital space.😌✨️

Photographed by @mikeyespinosa
Song: Beautiful Life by Bebe Rexha ( It's so inspiring I highly reccommend. ) by @adasartislife

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Shadow ~ River Goddess Dress (2024)
Created with help from artists @rihanatabigey and @rolinablok💖

Installation inspired by artist @alexschady

‘Shadow: River Goddess’ embodies the Spirit of the Walbrook River ~ a prominent river at the heart of Bank, the financial district and historical powerhouse of London. ‘Shadow’ - a recurring character in my practice, represents the subconscious, and its ties to deeper ancestral wisdom held in the body. Here she walks the path above the river’s course, drawing attention to its significance and its neglect within the postmodern landscape

The dress is inspired by the formation of the Walbrook river - the two tributaries running as the sleeves of the dress that meet at the back and recreate the cascading flow of the river. by @adasartislife

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Agents of Deterioration 10 -12 Jan
Agents of Deterioration:

Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment and alternative futures

Esi Eshun, Dawn Codex, Charles Nyiha, Ian Dawson, Deserae Tailfeathers, Adanma Nwankwo, Darby Herman, Louisa Minkin, Serene Weasel Traveller, Thomas Allison, Mame Afua Mensah, Helen Robertson, Joseph Ijoyemi, Rabiya Nagi, Rayya Khuri, Migueltzinta Solis, Walker English, Kylie Fineday, Raine Crandall, Rihanata Bigey, Fungai Marima.

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From the CSM Archive & Study Collection

John James Audubon, Birds of America.

Cornelia Parker, Mark Wallinger, Yinka Shonibare [Prints from Bugs: A portfolio, 2000]

When applying risk management strategies to museum collections, risk is broken down according to ten agents of deterioration  that pose threats to collections.  Nine of these risks are physical (physical forces, fire, water, criminals, pests, pollutants, light, incorrect temperature, and incorrect humidity) and the tenth is custodial neglect, for example where a collection item may be disassociated from provenance. Museums generally suspend objects from use, touch and intervention in order to freeze or hold things in a state of torpor, preventing interactions in order to preserve. Many Indigenous peoples challenge the idea of preservation as a greater good, instead affirming the right to renew and use, enliven and care for objects as part of community life.

The Prisoners of Love (PoL) project aims to connect UK collection items with their trans-national home peoples and bring emerging artists from in the UK, curators and researchers into conversation, to work responsively with complex histories and material practices.

The group have been working with the Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew; Horniman Museum and Gardens and Compound 13 Lab in Mumbai; India; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Ghana in Accra; Hastings Museum and Art Gallery and the Mootookakio’ssin project on Blackfoot homelands at the ULethbridge, Alberta, Canada. by @adasartislife

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We are excited to announce that 'Freedom Is Like...' is now patnering with by Museum of the Home (@museumofthehome) to provide our community of creative change makers with a beautiful and comfortable space for rejuvenation.

Join us Wednesday 13th December for an afternoon of communal meditation, creative expression and free writing. Our range of fun activities serve as tools to help you connect deper with yourself and others.

Come and discover a sacred space to slow down, reconnect, reset and recharge. Freedom Is Like pouring back into yourself.

Limited FREE tickets linked in @bmtstories bio🎟

🗓 Wednesday 13th December
🕐Time: 2 - 4pm
📍Location: Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8EA

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#freedomislike... #bmtculturehub #creativity #inspirationunleashed #communityvibes #connection #creatives #blackaware
#artandwellness #meditation #rejuvination #selfcare #pouringintoyourself #freedomislike...#bmtculturehub #bmtstories taken in Museum of the Home by @adasartislife

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“I SAID FRUIT SALAD [!!!]”
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Curated by Sara David + Alexis Parinas 🫴🏽🍓

This is a Hypha Studios exhibition supported by British Land

Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP
Friday 1 December 2023 – Saturday 6 January 2024
@hyphastudios @britishlandplc

🍉“Market Opening” on Friday 1 December 2023, 6-9pm

We want to reimagine the space as a colourful, bustling and joyous “market place”. The selected artists collectively share cross-cultural themes of food as communion, rituals and repetition, play as resistance, and embodied memory and nostalgia. This warm, sensorial and active space will be filled with music and evocative visual signifiers of multicultural exchanges. The space will be open for business with performances and live events every few days, with some of the artists occupying stalls to sell their work.

This group of artists include: Reya Ahmed (@reyaahmed_), Jorge Jobim (@jor.graphy), Leily Moghtader Mojdehi (@mojjyart), Maryam Hina Hasnain (@maryamhinahasnainstudio), Alisha Kruse (@alikruse), Adanma Nwankwo (@adaee12), Mîtra Farhan (@mitrafarhan), Hemali Khoosal (@hemalikhoosal), Amira Dabboussi (@amira.dabboussi), Ellen Warner (@theellenwarner), Yasmine Aminanda (@ayasminea), Nurin Yusof (@tengku_nurin), Hoa Dung Clerget (@hdclerget) and Koa Pham (@koapham), Sarah-Louise Davila (@sarahlouisedav), Maryam Adam (@paintingonmars), Asha Fontenelle (@ashafontenelle_), Kajal Mistry (@drawingisfunwithkajal), Soyeon Kim (@zzoyony), Omar Radwan (@omaradwan1), Marion Aschbacher (@aschbachermarion), Shengjia Zhang (@zhang.shengjia), and Camilla Dilshat (@camilladilshat)

Gorg poster design by @miraxmei 🌷 by @adasartislife

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3 years ago

Mootookakio’ssin: Creating in Spacetime

Exhibition: Nov 6 – Dec 16, 2023

Launch, Thursday Nov 9, 5 – 7 pm. (Followed by After Hours.)

Organized by Josephine Mills, Louisa Minkin, and Migueltzinta Solis

Mootookakio’ssin: Creating in Spacetime bridges temporal gaps between historical cultural material housed in museums and living contemporary artists. For the past few years, Blackfoot Elders, artists, scholars, and museum professionals living on Blackfoot Territory and in Britain have been working together, talking, and thinking about material culture, cultural capital, power, and estrangement. We’ve visited with historical cultural material in museum collections, survived the pandemic, jumped time zones, and calibrated calendars to make connections. Always guided by the Blackfoot principle that we have a responsibility to share and to care for knowledge, teaching and learning is at the core of our work.

artists include:

Esi Eshun
Mame Afua Mensah
@rihanatabigey
@dawncodex
@helen_robertson5555
@demondawson
Compound 13 Lab
Louisa Minkin
Michael Curran
@_____joewalsh__
@adasartislife
@mrj_artclub
@rabiyanagi
@charlesnyiha
Deserae Tailfeathers
Darby Herman
Thomas Allison
Alyssa Gault
Ang Crandell
Christina Douvis
Haley Platt
Isabel Nielson
Kathy Medicine Crane
Michaela Kozak
Myah Sluik
Tatiana Weasel Moccasion
Walker English
Zoe Buckskin by @adasartislife

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Shadow - River Goddess
September 2023
Medium: Performance
Filmed by Hans Lam (@hs1am )

She walks upon the land that’s engulfed her and across the street that used to bear witness to her magnificent stream, now wearing fluid fabric streams of her own. Shadow, once a personification of the artist’s subconscious, now manifests as a human embodiment of the Walbrock River. In this piece, the artist explores the themes of memory, time and the repression and pollution of nature using the Walbrock River as her case study. by @adasartislife

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Shadow - River Goddess
September 2023
Medium: Performance
Filmed by Hans Lam (@hs1am )

She walks upon the land that’s engulfed her and across the street that used to bear witness to her magnificent stream, now wearing fluid fabric streams of her own. Shadow, once a personification of the artist’s subconscious, now manifests as a human embodiment of the Walbrock River. In this piece, the artist explores the themes of memory, time and the repression and pollution of nature using the Walbrock River as her case study. by @adasartislife

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