Three Musketeers - Adiba Ndiwe

University of Brighton 
Oil, pastel and gold leaf on canvas 
Adiba Ndiwe is a Welsh/Nigerian artist, writer, and advocate for arts accessibility. Excited by contrast in both the visual and contextual sense, she often paints realistic figures within abstract surroundings, juxtaposing technical skill with absent-minded doodles. Her methodology is underpinned by her interest in the teachings of various thinkers and theorists such as Bell Hooks and Mark Fisher. Primarily a painter, Ndiwe would describe herself as a multi-disciplinary artist, as her body of work also contains film, text and collage. She explores ways to visualise the intersections of identity, layering themes on race, gender, sexuality, socio-economics and spirituality. Inspired by her council estate upbringing and journey through arts academia as a queer POC, Ndiwe's fascination with contrast exists from her feelings of displacement. Ndiwe's practice demonstrates a philosophical, cerebral and satirical approach.