Thoughts unsaid, then
forgotten
Born 1993, Bauchi, Lives and works in London, UK. He holds a MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art, a Bsc in Psychology and a Msc in Social and Behavioural Psycholgy from UCL.
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Kudi's painting practice is marked by a keen exploration of the lived experience, and complexities of this. His paintings look to highlight some of the issues society phases, through the gestures, palettes and abstract figures represented.
In this approach instigating his viewer, to ponder and reflect more on what he sees or sometimes does not see. Due to the motion of ones self experience and neolibralism Kudi believe there is things society do not consider or deem important but in fact play a pivotal role in our pscyhological construction.
His influences include, the impressionist masters such as Degas, Monet, Renoir, to more psychological artist such as Freud, Bacon, Phil Gusto, Marlen Dumas, Cy Twombly.
In this approach instigating his viewer, to ponder and reflect more on what he sees or sometimes does not see. Due to the motion of ones self experience and neolibralism Kudi believe there is things society do not consider or deem important but in fact play a pivotal role in our pscyhological construction.
His influences include, the impressionist masters such as Degas, Monet, Renoir, to more psychological artist such as Freud, Bacon, Phil Gusto, Marlen Dumas, Cy Twombly.
“My appropriation of painting as a visual language has a strategic aim. I myself do not fit the cliché of a tragic artist....but a lot of my personal tragedy has shaped my communal relationships and experience”
Kudi's work is not only visually striking but intellectually stimulating, as it invites the viewer to question the social structures that govern our daily lives and the balance and imbalance this creates in society. He desires his viewers to "question everything”, and in doing so, to question the very foundations of art and the role it plays in shaping our understanding of the world.