Nwadiogbu works from photographs that he has taken of his friends, family and other members of the Black immigrant community.  Rather than simply recreating the photographic image, however, Nwadiogbu zooms in on specific details or moments that are emotionally charged. He begins by pouring paint onto the canvas, responding to the movement and emotion of colour, his psychological state and the rhythm of the music that he plays in the studio, before painting the figure and fragments of contextual information on top of this textured surface in heightened detail. The result is a series of haunting scenes that sit somewhere between stillness and movement, reality and dream.

FRAGMENTS OF REALITY